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March is a big month for OpenVPN. Weā€™re celebrating 25 years with a retro cybersecurity arcade game, and weā€™re rolling out improvements to CloudConnexa Log Streaming with OCSF support.

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Whether you want to test your reflexes against simulated malware, simplify how connection events flow into your security stack, or catch up on the latest industry news, thereā€™s something new to explore this month.

We Turned 25...and Made an Arcade Game About It!

OpenVPN turns 25 this year ā€” so we built a retro arcade cybersecurity game to celebrate.

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CyberSpin Defender puts you between a barrage of incoming malware and a manager who refuses to approve a VPN and keeps opening suspicious attachments.

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If you have the highest score on the leaderboard at 11:59 PM PST on March 31, youā€™ll win a $100 Amazon gift card!Ā 

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Learn more or play:
New for Log Streaming: Stream Client Connection Events in OCSF ā€” No Custom Parsing Needed

Weā€™ve made it much easier to bring CloudConnexa connection data into your existing security stack.

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CloudConnexa Log Streaming now supports the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) format for streaming connection and traffic events. OCSF is an open, industry-standard way to structure security events, backed by AWS and other security leaders.

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If youā€™re sending data into a SIEM or security data lake (for example, Amazon Security Lake), you no longer need to:

  • Build and maintain custom parsers for CloudConnexa logs

  • Normalize fields like user, device, IP, and tunnel details by hand

With OCSF support:

  • Events are instantly understood by modern SIEMs and security lakes

  • Correlation is easier across VPN tunnels, network activity, and other OCSF-based signals
  • Investigations are faster because connection activity is already in the language your tools expect

Behind the scenes, CloudConnexa converts connection events (tunnel open/close, session details, traffic stats) and Cyber Shield filtering events (blocked domains and traffic) into standardized Tunnel Activity and Network Activity classes defined by OCSF, so your data lines up with the broader cybersecurity ecosystem rather than a proprietary format.

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How to enable it

You control this from the Administration Portal:

  1. Go to API & Logs > Log Streaming.
  2. Toggle on Devices & Connectors Sessions, Cyber Shield - Blocked Domains, or Cyber Shield - Blocked Traffic.
  3. Select OCSF as your chosen format.
  4. Click Change to confirm.

Once enabled:

  • New events are written to your configured AWS S3 bucket in files that include "ocsf" in the filename.
  • Your SIEM or security lake can immediately start using these standardized events for detection rules, dashboards, and automation.

Have you heard OpenVPN has a customer referral program? Now, when you invite a colleague:

  • You earn a one-time 15% commission on their first subscription plus 10% recurring commission on renewals.
  • Your colleague gets 20% off their first annual subscription.

Itā€™s a win-win for everyone! Start sharing today.

šŸ§ Did you know we offer weekly ā€œoffice hoursā€ where we showcase our products and answer your questions? Weā€™d love to see you.

New on the OpenVPN YouTube Channel

Explore a wealth of video overviews and tutorials on the OpenVPN YouTube channel.

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Here are some recent highlights:

Industry News

Good to know: OpenVPN shares a weekly roundup of cybersecurity news to keep our readers informed. Check out our most recent This Week in Cybersecurity posts for the latest industry headlines.

Looks legit. When AI produces polished artifacts ā€” apps, code, documents, or tools ā€” people are less likely to question them. Anthropic's research report calls this the "artifact effect." What is it, exactly? Anthropic Education Report: The AI Fluency Index

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Back to basics. A hacker using off-the-shelf genAI tools compromised hundreds of FortiGate devices across 55 countries. He didn't do it with zero-days. His success was due to exposed management ports and weak credentials. Basic security gaps scale dangerously well when AI is involved. Read more: Attacker Breached 600 FortiGate Appliances in AI-Assisted Campaign: Amazon

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Zero-day pipeline. New research suggests China has built a coordinated pipeline, funneling software vulnerabilities from researchers to the government. More info about this new framework: Chinaā€™s Zero-Day Pipeline: From Discovery to Deployment

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Capacity crunch. Data center demand is exploding, but new construction is slowing. What's causing the bottlenecks? This article answers the question about an industry where demand keeps rising, even as new builds struggle to keep pace: Data center new builds diminish even as demand rises

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