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Only insofar as it talks about 1) partially encrypted traffic, 2) using local copies of the keys for decryption, or 3) flow identification of IPSEC. Properly done I don't see an IPSEC/L2TP VPN being vulnerable to DPI - although you will want a constant stream of "filler" packets going back and forward to thwart traffic analysis.

Otherwise, the whole thing is a disgrace and the engineers responsible for working on it need to take a long look at themselves. Dressing it up with examples of "Detection of Malware" is disingenuous, it's abundantly clear what the use case is here.



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