SECURE VPN
If you want to create a secure remote office environment, VPNs can be more useful now than ever. VPNs are ideal for remote work setups, because employees can use them to have secure connections to their workplace PCs, no matter where they are. Using a VPN for business ensures that valuable customer and company data is as safe as it can be, even when working from home.
Businesses use remote access VPNs to establish a secure connection between their network and the devices used by remote workers.
Once connected, employees are able to access the resources on the network just as if their devices were physically plugged in at the office.
A remote access VPN works by creating a virtual tunnel between an employee’s device and the company’s network.
This tunnel goes through the public internet but the data sent back and forth through it is protected by encryption and security protocols to help keep it private and secure.
The two main components of this type of VPN are a network access server (often called a NAS but not to be confused with network-attached storage) and VPN client software.
A network access server could be a dedicated server or it might be a software application running on a shared server. Users connect to the NAS over the internet in order to use a remote access VPN. In order to sign in to the VPN, the NAS requires that users provide valid credentials. To authenticate these credentials, the NAS uses either its own authentication process or a separate authentication server running on the network.
Users must also install client software on their devices to establish and maintain a connection to the VPN. Today most operating systems ship with built-in software which can connect to a remote access VPN, though some VPN services may require users to install a specific application instead. The client software sets up the tunnelled connection to the NAS and manages the encryption required to keep the connection secure.
A remote access VPN works by creating a virtual tunnel between an employee’s device and the company’s network. This tunnel goes through the public internet but the data sent back and forth through it is protected by encryption and security protocols to help keep it private and secure.
New and more complex forms of flexibility have begun to spread, including flexible location and flexible work times...
The VPN should protect data while it's traveling on the public network. If intruders attempt to capture the data, they should be unable to read or use it.
The VPN should provide the same quality of connection for each user even when it is handling its maximum number of simultaneous connections
As a business grows, it should be able to extend its VPN services to handle that growth without replacing the VPN technology altogether
With the recent surge in large numbers of employees working from home, the importance of using a VPN has become a topic within many companies.
As a result, the questions of what a VPN is, and what VPNs do, have been getting a lot of attention lately.
A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is a service that connects remote sites or users together over a public, unsecured, unencrypted network privately and safely by establishing secure, encrypted connections. It routes data coming from your computer through servers in another location and scrambles it to make it unreadable.
In very simple terms, a VPN connects your PC, smartphone, or tablet to another computer (called a server) somewhere on the internet, and allows you to browse the internet using that computer’s internet connection.
A VPN’s purpose is to connect business networks together securely over the internet, or allow an employee to access a business network from locations outside the office. VPNs are frequently used by workers to access their business’ intranet, including all its local network resources, when they are on sales calls, travelling, or working at home.
Businesses with multiple offices around the country or world, and those with many employees working outside of the office (salespeople for example), need a fast, secure and reliable way to connect to their business's computer network from remote locations and share information across networks. A VPN is a popular technology to accomplish these goals.
