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The Advantages of Adopting VPN Technology

The biggest advantages of setting up and using a VPN include greater security , lower costs of connections , greater availability of confidential resources throughout a widely distributed network of employees , and scalability of VPN as a technology versus other alternatives . The first advantage is the ability to create secured connections quickly for any associate at any location where broadband access is available . The Virtual Private Network (VPN ) Consortium (2006 ) has named three security technologies that are responsible for the rapid growth of VPNs globally . They are trusted

VPNs , secure VPNs and hybrid VPNs . The Consortium delineates the differences of these security approaches in their white mentioned in the references in this document . In summarizing their findings the VPN Consortium states that many organizations are striving to create networks immune from snooping , listening in or even re-touting traffic . While VPNs ' security is a major advantage , many companies including Microsoft , Oracle , and Symantec and others continue to invest their R D funds into finding even strong encryption methods to assure security of VPN traffic . The second advantage of lowering costs , VPNs rely on a consistent broadband connection from the company 's main servers to the Internet . In a sense companies are underwriting the cost of their VPN connections with Internet access charges for having a website up and running . The costs are also reduced is that they don 't require dedicated leased lines for communicating , as has been mentioned earlier with regard to EDI connections . Further , VPNs don 't necessarily require employees to incur long-distance telephone charges to get Internet access . The charges for connecting to an Internet Service Provider (ISP ) may be present depending on the configuration , yet all this is needed are a broadband connection to make VPN on client systems work . The third advantage is availability of confidential data at remote geographic locations . This is a definite advantage in that it greatly cuts down on the need to contact associates in the home office to obtain needed financial and performance data to serve customers . The fact that VPNs are extensively used by salesmen preparing pricing quotes and proposals shows the advantage of having a secured and always-on connection to a company 's most important information assets . The fourth advantage of scalability both of the technology and VPN applications in general . These technologies are specifically built to scale across the Internet and supports hundreds or thousands of users concurrently . The scalability of VPN from a business perspective is more focused on brining up multiple locations at the same time thereby creating a virtual network ' of offices that connect with one another independent of direct control from one centralized location

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Virtual Private Network Consortium (2006 ) - From the white , VPN Technologies : Definitions and Requirements HYPERLINK "http /www .vpnc .org /vpn-technologies .html http /www .vpnc .org /vpn-technologies .html Accessed from the Internet on November 13 , 2006...