You know, that means you trust the computer that you are terminating too. One of the ways I like to think about the two main issues that you really have to be aware of when you're choosing VPN, if you are choosing a virtual private network that is provisioned to you by your employer, for example, there probably means that your termination point which is that virtual private network, which is a tunnel, essentially an encrypted tunnel between you and some other computer somewhere, that other computer somewhere is the termination point and if it's terminating within the enterprise network, hey, that's pretty good. I think that's a better way of putting it, which is you can easily assume, right, that you've got a VPN and you're just rock solid and everything's great and what may turn out is that there are certain decisions you need to make and if you make the wrong decisions, then maybe you're not as secure as you should be.
And I think Tim, we really have to talk about - I don't know if it's necessarily the minuses of it, more of things you - the blind spots people have with respect to implementing virtual private networks, VPNs. So, you know, when it first came out and even to this day, it's an important technology. You could work from all kinds of places or perhaps you could also allow third parties like contractors to come in and do work as well. So that's the, you know, in an absolute nutshell, what it's for.Īnd it was great because my goodness, you could actually work from home. So, quite often the scenario is you have an employee that's remote, that's not necessarily within the corporate network and you want that person to be able to join that network securely with the idea being that the unfriendly networks that you're attaching across you don't want to be anybody to be able to look at or alter the packets that are going between the client and the safe network that’s the destination. Virtual private networks have been an important toolset for people in IT for many, many years to be able to pass network boundaries that are unfriendly. So, we wanted to talk I think about the strengths and weaknesses and pros and cons of that approach.Ībsolutely, Tim. It does depend on PKI and if you're implementing PKI systems, there is a very good chance that you're dealing with VPNs. VPNs are very close to interwoven with the world of PKI, though it’s not a PKI technology itself. Join our hosts as they discuss the advantages and disadvantages of VPNs, and what to look out for.Įpisode Transcript Lightly edited for flow and brevity. With the sudden, meteoric increase in remote workers, many IT professionals are looking at VPN as a method of keeping them secure.
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