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Golden Frog Sees an Opportunity for Web Hosts in Personal VPN

August 19, 2011 — VPN service provider Golden Frog believes its VyprVPN product addresses a newer, and growing, need for information security on a personal scale, and – in an assertion that should be familiar to businesses in the hosting space – feels web hosting providers have an opportunity to profit from providing this kind of security to consumers and small businesses.

VPN – As Secured as a baby in a womb

nThe world is fast changing and Business corporations all over the world are taking various steps to take their organization to a completely different level. They are not hesitating to employ various methods like widening the range of their target audiences by reaching out to them even if they are in different countries, outsourcing their …Read More

(VPN) Virtual Private Network FAQs

What is a virtual private network? A virtual private network is essentially a system that allows two or more private networks to be connected over a publically accessible network, such as the Internet. It usually consists of an encrypted tunnel of some kind, although a VPN can take several forms, using different combinations of hardware …Read More

Introduction to MPLS .. Explaining Multi-protocol Label Switching

Conceived and developed in the late 90s by the Internet Engineering Task Force, MPLS, or Multi-protocol Label Switching is a network management protocol originally intended to integrate layer 2 information about network links (bandwidth, latency, utilization) into layer 3 (IP) elements within a particular system.nWhile traditional IP networks have no means of labeling, categorizing or …Read More

Introduction to FreeS/WAN

Short for Free Secure Wide Area Network, FreeS/WAN (freeswan.org) is a community project focused on a Linux implementation of the IPSec security protocol, the basis for VPN technology and on the belief that encryption, and the privacy it provides, should be free, easily accessible, and widely implemented on the Internet.nBegun in 1999, the FreeS/WAN project’s …Read More

What Is VPN Encryption?

To ensure that your VPN is secure, limiting user access is only one piece of the equation; once the user is authenticated, the data itself needs to be protected as well. Without a mechanism to provide data privacy, information flowing through the channel will be transmitted in clear text, which can easily be viewed or …Read More

What About VPN Security?

The key word in “virtual private networks” is private. The last thing a business wants, is to have sensitive corporate information end up in the hands of some pubescent hacker, or worse, the competition. Fortunately, VPNs are widely considered extremely secure, despite using public networks.nIn order to authenticate the VPN’s users, a firewall will be …Read More

The Advantages of a VPN

There are a number of reasons to set up a VPN for remote access, but the biggest selling point by far is the potential cost savings.nUsing the Internet to distribute network services over long distances means companies no longer have to purchase expensive leased lines to branch or partners’ offices as a VPN connection needs …Read More

How a Virtual Private Network Works

For years, voice, data, and just about all software-defined network services were called “virtual private networks” by the telephone companies. The current generation of VPNs, however, is a more advanced combination of tunneling, encryption, authentication and access control technologies and services used to carry traffic over the Internet, a managed IP network or a provider’s …Read More

What is a VPN? … Explaining Virtual Private Networks

As it is most commonly defined, a virtual private network (VPN) allows two or more private networks to be connected over a publicly accessed network. In a sense, VPNs are similar to wide area networks (WAN) or a securely encrypted tunnel, but the key feature of VPNs is that they are able to use public …Read More