While I use my personal desktop computer for this hobby, I also occasionally work from home and connect my work laptop on to my home network. The work laptop connects using VPN but our company IT policy states they have the right to monitor, access and review (the laptop stuff) but also includes the right to "sniffing network traffic". Does that mean they are potentially seeing everything either me or anyone in the household accesses?
Originally Posted by o2flyhi
No, you should be safe here. If you're using your work laptop at home, and there is VPN software on that computer (and only that computer) establishing a VPN connection to your work network, then the only thing they can monitor is the traffic from that laptop. The rest of your home Internet traffic is being routed as normal.
Just avoid doing anything on a PC connected to the work VPN. If you were to use your personal desktop computer to also connect to the VPN, you might open it up to their monitoring while connected, but it sounds like you're not doing that.