My employer flagged my location while working abroad - here's what happened and how I fixed it
This post is not for: skeptics, paranoids, and people who work in extremely sensitive jobs.
It's a true story: My employer flagged me while travelling and working remotely. HR was called and I found myself in troubles so I promised myself to do it better next time.
I work in cyber security so I know the tools we used to flag people using VPN - so public VPN was quickly ruled out. Instead I used cloud VPS to roll my own VPN server. Checked its IP against public reputation data base like ipapi.is/ to make sure I'm not flagged as VPN.
To roll my own VPN server I deployed wireguard docker and run it - it's very simple and takes only few seconds. I'm technical enough to handle that. Quick google search for Docker Wireguard will lead you to it.
Finally I made sure my config is kill switch enabled, and tested against DNS leaks. I will post the config file later which I used to config my openwrt router.
To go extra layer of security I bought a USB-C to Ethernet adapter and disabled my Wi-Fi completely. Now I was able to always get internet from my VPN router directly without needing any software or extra steps.
ps: sorry for the typos I will edit later.