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Proxy vs VPN: What's Actually Different? (2026) I once watched a junior developer present a "secure" architecture to the board. He'd put everything behind a proxy. The CISO asked one question: "So the data is encrypted?" The room went quiet. It wasn't. That meeting cost us two weeks of rework. And it's the exact confusion I still see everywhere. People throw "proxy" and "VPN" around like they're interchangeable. They aren't. In every proxy vs vpn debate, the same misunderstanding shows up. A proper proxy vs vpn review always starts with use cases, not product names. One hides where you are.…