What is a Virtual Private Network?
A VPN is the joining of two or more different networks into one visible network in a secure fashion which enables your business to securely connect remote users, branch offices, business partners, and customers together. BizGuardian provides two forms of VPN, IPSec (branch to branch) and PPTP (remote users to branch) connections allowing you to take full advantage of the cost savings and productivity enhancing benefits of virtual private networks. Its powerful encryption ensures the security of your corporate data.
At it’s simplest, a Virtual Private Network, or VPN, is an extension of a given private network (say your home network) that uses public network space (the internet) to allow remote users or networks to connect. A VPN incorporates two features, encryption and tunneling , to ensure that the data is delivered safely and privately across the public space. VPN technology arose from the need to reduce the cost of secure communications between large corporate computer networks. Dedicated connections (leased lines) such as ISDN or T1’s between networks are incredibly expensive for a business to maintain. By taking advantage of public network space (the internet as you and I know it) to carry communications, the cost could be reduced greatly. But what about security? A point-to-point line is expensive, but on the other hand you don’t need to worry greatly about someone listening in between point A and point B. In contrast, sending data from point to point over the internet is much more economi
