ExpressVPN’s Lightway Passes Second Independent Audit

ExpressVPN has once again demonstrated its commitment to transparency and user privacy by passing yet another independent audit. The VPN service provider's latest assessment by Cure53 reveals that its in-house VPN protocol, Lightway, is secure and free from high-impact security issues.

ExpressVPN invited Cure53 to conduct a comprehensive audit of Lightway's source code and perform a penetration test during October and November 2022. This marks the second time that Lightway has undergone an external assessment by the cybersecurity firm – the first of which was conducted in 2021.

Cure53's report confirmed that Lightway has a "very good state of security". It identified five low-severity and four informational issues, all of which were immediately remedied by ExpressVPN.

The report further determined that by "drawing on the combination of factors, namely the comprehensive coverage, low number of findings, and an absence of high-impact problems, it can be concluded that this Cure53 assessment of the ExpressVPN Lightway components concludes with a positive result."

ExpressVPN has completed and published twelve third-party audits in the past year alone in an attempt to become the VPN industry's most transparent provider. This achievement underscores the company's ongoing commitment to security, user privacy, and accountability.

Adding to this, the decision was made to make Lightway open-source back in 2021, further improving transparency. The move allowed users, researchers, and developers to scrutinize the code, identify vulnerabilities, and contribute to development.

ExpressVPN's vice-president, Harold Li, spoke of why the decision was made to create Lightway, stating "Speed, performance, privacy, security, reliability — no one protocol had them all. That’s why we invested resources to build Lightway from the ground up for modern VPN needs.”

Many more independent audits of ExpressVPN are expected to be planned in the near future, in an effort to further prove its commitment to security and transparency.