Chapter 8

Virtual Private Networks and Remote Access

Introduction

When you think about the world today, with hackers everywhere, you need something to reassure you that you have a little privacy. The Virtual Private Network (VPN) provides that—on a LAN, WAN, and Remote Access scale for many different types of people.

If you think about it, you can have people anywhere in the world using a VPN on a WAN, sending secure messages over a service provider’s network in the middle. Also, you could have people working on the road or from home using a VPN to securely connect to the company infrastructure ...

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