Does a Windows Secure Application Manager work as a VPN?

My office monitors my internet usage. If I use a "Windows Secure Application Manager" does it work like a VPN?





For instance if I have it running, does it make it more difficult for them to monitor my internet activity?|||WSAM is a VPN client for accessing Juniper Network VPNs. Unless you're configured to hit a Juniper Networks VPN device (and outbound VPN tunneling is permitted on your network) it's not going to do anything for you.





Even if you are authorized to hit a remote VPN device with WSAM, your systems admin can still monitor what you are doing on your machine depending upon how they monitor what you are doing. If the client is configured to block all local network access (only a rube of a sysadmin would allow that) your activities could not be monitored in real time but they'd instantly know that your machine was isolated from the network and could see where your tunnel session was going. That's enough to raise plenty of red flags in and of itself.





If you were on my network, you would not even be able to launch WSAM without authorization (let alone install it) since applications must be explicitly authorized to launch on all networked machines. This is controlled by Group Policy and there's no way for you to bypass that even if you have local admin access since we lock it down to domain and enterprise admins only.





If you want to keep your job, I'd suggest that you focus on your job and leave the recreational surfing for after hours from home.