Is Your Laptop Vulnerable to Attack?

I’ve been admiring the Yoggie for months. It always comes up for me in coffee shops. I sit there using free wifi feeling a bit like someone having unprotected sex. I’m using my Mac, I’ve got my firewall turned on but I’m pretty sure there are holes in my prophylactic measures (if you know what I mean).

The idea behind Yoggie is to provide as much protection for an exposed laptop as you would have behind your law firm firewall. Yoggie is a piece of hardware. It’s actually a tiny little computer running on a card. Some models plug into the card slot, others go in the USB port. The point is to make security incredibly easy without putting any software on your laptop. Yoggie doesn’t impact performance of your laptop because it runs all of its processes on it’s built in linux based computer. They call it “plug and forget”. Can’t beat that.

The Yoggie devices will run on a PC or a Mac. After the first year you’ll have to pay for a subscription to continue receiving updates. The subscription runs $30 to $40 depending on which Yoggie you choose and it updates every hour. Some models have a VPN client and some do not.

I was visiting their site today, from a coffee shop, admiring their stuff when I noticed a sweet flashing banner informing me that their Mac product, The Yoggie Gatekeeper Pico for Mac, is being offered at 50% off. I promptly exposed my credit card number to the evil people monitoring my wifi packets and hit the “buy” button. I hope to see my tiny little protector next week.

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