VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that provides secure communication through an insecure and untrusted network (like the Internet). Usually, it achieves this by authentication, encryption, ...

Last time I looked at some important questions to ask when selecting a site-to-site VPN protocol or technology. This time I will discuss some the important questions to ask when choosing a remote ...

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) based on the Internet Protocol (IP) really took off in recent years. As the rest of the IT industry struggled to recover from the economic downturn, IP VPNs continued ...

IPSec arrived first on the scene and still rules site-to-site VPNs, but SSL has won converts on the remote access side thanks to its relative simplicity. When IP VPNs came on the scene in the late ...

I remember the days when you could set up dial-up modems and have users connect to your NT 4.0 Server using Remote Access Service (RAS). Combining multiple modems in a multilink to increase bandwidth ...

The FINANCIAL — Huawei on March 4 announced that its next-generation firewall (NGFW) solutions – Unified Security Gateway (USG) series and Eudemon series – have received IPSec 2.2 Enhanced ...

SSL and TLS are similar technologies because they share a codebase, though one is better than the other. In fact, one is dead and the other still reigns supreme to the time this day. By end of this ...

Network security protocols are the primary means of securing data in motion — that is, data communicated between closely connected physical devices, or between devices, and even virtual machines ...