VPN- Virtual Private Networking
The Link between your data and you.
Who uses VPN? Most small and large businesses use VPN's to support their growing operations. Regular people also use VPN for various activities like connecting to their home computer for family photos from an outside computer or network. Why do companies/ regular people use VPN? - To remotely work away from work
- Access data from the main server on the go
- Access and manage programs running on the server
- Update share documents between people while using a secure connection
- To configure firewalls and servers remotely
- On the go backup data
- Safer than most other forms of connections
- Multiple people accessing a document at the same time
- The ability to share
- Provides easy format to manage/secure access point
- And much more.....
- Forms
- Data sheets
- Financial data
What is need to set a VPN up? - Windows default has a client built in
- Firewall in order to secure the connection
- Active directory creates users and manages folders: programs/hr/finance/all shared databases
- NAS Server which stands for Network Accessed Server. This manages the many tunnels for the VPN connection.
- AAA servers is Remote Authentication Dial-in User Service (RADIUS)
How can you set one up?
Watch the video below to learn how to setup a VPN on a Windows 7 computer without using an outside client.
Watch the video below to learn how to setup a VPN on a OSX computer without using an outside client.
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