SecurityKISS review

SecurityKISS is an Irish VPN with such a strong focus on ease of use that it’s built into the company name (KISS = ‘Keep It Smart & Simple’). The SecurityKISS VPN client and subscription-based service encrypts your online activity, protecting you from hackers, thieves, and snoops.

SecurityKISS is an extremely simple-to-use software as it requires no registration of accounts – all new users have to do is download the client, install, and click “Connect,” and they are instantly secured.

The SecurityKISS head office is based in Ireland, and they manage 104 servers located on 3 continents (i.e Europe, America, and Asia) and in different countries, which include the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Russia, Spain, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sweden.

Session and network connection keys are refreshed every hour. Privacy is taken seriously, with a strict no client data logging policy. They do not keep an eye on or store logs for any session activity, except for bandwidth usage during the connection, duration and time of the user connection, and user IP address. This recorded information is used to monitor service usage of users and to produce data for internal use. Keep reading this SecurityKISS VPN review to know more.

VPN Security and Privacy

One of the most important security features of SecurityKISS is Exclusive Tunneling. If your information is encrypted and passing through a path on the internet, Exclusive Tunneling helps your data anonymity by deleting the route as soon as the connection is dropped.

Unfortunately, Exclusive Tunneling notwithstanding, security is not an overall strong point for SecurityKISS. Although their servers support the industry-standard OpenVPN and L2TP protocols, they use the antiquated 128-bit Blowfish system for network encryption and for the network keys exchange, and the relatively outdated 1024-bit handshake with RSA certificates.

VPN apps and extensions

SecurityKISS provides a native app for Windows, and they also have app for Mac users, Linux, IOS, Android and other smartphones and routers.

Account registration is not needed to be able to download and use the app. All you need to do is to go to the website and choose your preferred language. Then, click on the “Download SecurityKiss tunnel” button.

Each app downloaded is unique to each device, as it is individually customized with a pair of public and private keys. The private key is for your eyes only, so it is deleted from their server once you download the app, install and start using it.

Overall, SecurityKISS is a relatively decently rounded VPN, and their client software app is one of the more convenient VPN apps on the market.

Speed and performance

SecurityKISS VPN has a “Free for life” plan and this plan’s speed performance is surprisingly impressive.

Connecting to their servers doesn’t seem to have lags or any slowdowns. For free version users, the speed is capped at 100 Mbits/sec but don’t expect to be able to use up to that, as free users are only given access with limited speed connections.

If unlimited speed is what you desire, we conclude in this SecurityKISS VPN review that it’s better to subscribe to a paid version.

Use in China

Some of the censorship practices by governments can be argued as justifiable for safety reasons — such as screening adult content from children or limiting hate speech.

In most cases, like blocking content that isn’t harmful per se, but goes against a government’s philosophy, the purpose is simply unethical, and VPNs can help to circumvent such censorship.
SecurityKISS creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer to its security gateways, so both surveillance and blocking are extremely difficult.

SecurityKISS does not explicitly claim to work in China, but mentions that their encryption technology can bypass censorship.

SecurityKISS VPN for Netflix and torrenting

The free plan was not built to support video streaming. But, when we tested it for this SecurityKISS VPN review, we found out that it was able to stream music and video.

Netflix, BBC, YouTube, and Hulu worked because of the geographical restriction bypass feature of SecurityKISS, but the video streaming quickly used up all of the free 300MB of daily data allowance.

However, watching your favorite TV shows from anywhere in the world should not be a problem with the paid plan.

On the torrenting front, SecurityKISS did not do badly, but its score was not among the top 10 VPNs with the fastest download and upload speed. There was a great drop in speed when SecurityKISS’s service was connected to.

While this makes sense because it’s a free VPN, the results of the paid version also were somehow inconsistent too.

Customer support

The SecurityKISS website is relatively easy to navigate with a simple, albeit slightly dated website and an official blog with relevant and engaging articles.

Their support is provided by e-mail, live chat, and a website ticketing system. There is also a robust FAQ button to answer the more general questions one may have. They also run a Facebook page which perhaps gives an alternative way to get help from them.

Pricing

SecurityKISS offers a free plan – the GREEN plan, which comes with slower speed, four server locations, and a 300MB daily data cap.

SecurityKISS also has four paid plans with really unique names. The exact prices depend on the length of your subscription, which comes in 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year:

• OLIVINE (economy plan), 20GB/month
• MALACHITE (basic plan), 30GB/month
• JADEITE (premium plan), 50GB/month
• EMRALD (unlimited plan), unlimited bandwidth

SecurityKISS’s plans are a little below average, but some locations (such as Hong Kong, Russia, and Singapore) are only available with the higher tier plans.

Since they are offering a free VPN to try out the service, the absence of a money-back guarantee is understandable. They accept Bitcoin, credit cards, cashU, PayPal, and wire transfer.

If you choose to pay with Bitcoin, you will get a discount of 50% on any of the purchased plans. But if you do choose to cancel, they will give you only a partial refund of any remaining balance on your account.

Bottom line

The pros of SecurityKISS include the free option, which carries 300MB data cap per day, and features like accepting Bitcoin. No account registration required shows they value anonymity, as well.

But if you are a heavy VPN user, then the free plan is also an ideal way of “testing the waters” before upgrading to a paid plan.

Alternatively, the cons of SecurityKiss VPN include, the speed of downloads and uploads which was found to be inconsistent, and some people have complained about their support not answering tickets.

If all you want to do is to just browse some sites anonymously, the free 300MB daily allowance may be all you need. Their encryption is a little on the measly side, and considering the better options from other VPNs, it’s hard to recommend SecurityKISS.