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It's 1800 yearly subscriptions at $110k, and that's assuming $5/month is pure profit, which it is not.

So this one off audit would have to hit them, say, 6000 extra 1 year subscriptions to pay itself off, let alone turn profit. Sounds like a stretch.

It would certainly be hard to measure.

On that note, how many customers do these public customer oriented VPNs have, typically? 1k's? 10k's? More?



Or just one juicy corporate subscription.


Not sure about that. The major VPNs have similar (not identical) functionality and price. They're competing on the perception that they are more secure than others. In that light, having a passing security audit by a reputable company would be table stakes for a lot of customers. As noted by another commenter already, not having one could also be a deal-breaker on a vendor security assessment by a big company, too.




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