Apple Pro Training Series: OS X Server Essentials 10.9: Using and Supporting OS X Server on Mavericks

Lesson 19. Providing Security via the VPN Service

Goals

Understand the benefits of virtual private network (VPN)

Configure the VPN service

A virtual private network (VPN) connection is like having an impossibly long Ethernet cable from a user’s computer or device somewhere else in the world to your organization’s internal network; your users can use VPN to encrypt all traffic between their computers or devices and computers inside your organization’s internal network.

Don’t confuse a firewall and VPN; a firewall can block network traffic based ...