ExpressVPN’s Fortify router protects your work on any network

This one sits slightly outside our usual patch, but it addresses something every photographer who works away from home should think about more than they probably do: what happens to your files, and your accounts, when you upload over someone else’s Wi-Fi. ExpressVPN has launched the Fortify, a purpose-built router that puts VPN protection at the network level rather than on individual devices. Details are on ExpressVPN’s site. Why a photographer might care about a router The security case is genuine rather than manufactured. If you deliver client work from a hotel, upload to a gallery over café Wi-Fi, or run a studio full of connected devices, your traffic is only as private as the network carrying it — and public networks are not private. A VPN encrypts that traffic so it cannot be read in transit, which for anyone handling client images, contracts or account logins on the road...