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Article Central VPN - As Secured as a baby in a womb

2010-02-21

The 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...

Article Central (VPN) Virtual Private Network FAQs

2009-09-11

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, u...

Article Central Introduction to MPLS .. Explaining Multi-protocol Label Switching

2009-09-11

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 part...

Article Central Introduction to FreeS/WAN

2009-09-11

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 implem...

Article Central What Is VPN Encryption?

2009-09-11

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 ...

Article Central What About VPN Security?

2009-09-11

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 network...

Article Central The Advantages of a VPN

2009-09-11

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....

Article Central How a Virtual Private Network Works

2009-09-11

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 a...

Article Central What is a VPN? ... Explaining Virtual Private Networks

2009-09-11

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 publ...

Article Central How Do I Choose a VPN

2009-09-11

Once you've learned the basic facts about virtual private networks, the next questions you must ask yourself are whether a VPN solution is right for your enterprise, and how you should go about implementing one....

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