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VPN in securing data

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VPN in securing data

Keeping one’s passwords, financial and diverse forms of personal details safe and protected from the outside intruders has remained a priority for the enterprise. However, it is increasingly critical for individuals to pay attention to data protection measures and embrace sound practices to keep their personal and sensitive details safe. Some of the methods to secure and safe information are using the data encryption mechanisms, use of strong passwords, and physical security measures, among others. The focus of the essay is on the role of VPN in enhancing the security of data.

VPN, otherwise called the virtual private network, alludes to an internet security amenity that enables users to access internet services via a private network. The virtual private networks use the encryptions in creating a secure connection over the unsecured internet infrastructure. The VPN acts as an elaborate mechanism of protecting the corporate data and to manage the users’ access to the data (Nur Hidayat et al., 2018). The VPN safeguards data as we utilize the applications and the properties over the internet, maintaining specific resources hidden.

Encryption is a way of scrambling data to ensure that only authorized people can acknowledge the information. It takes the readable s data and alters it’s making it appear random to the hackers and to anybody interested in intercepting it. The encryption acts as a secret s code deterring unauthorized access to data. And how it helps to keep data safe operates through the establishment of encrypted connections between various devices. All the devices which are connecting via the VPN set up encryption l keys, which are critical in the encoding and decoding of all data that is transferred between them. This process may add a small latency to the network connections, which eventually slows network traffic (Nur Hidayat et al., 2018).

This encryption implies that the VPN connections will remain privatized even if they stretch across the public internet infrastructures. VPN operates similarly except that the network is virtual, and most enterprises use it for access controls. This implies to deter unauthorized users from accessing sensitive details (Ashraf, 2018). The enterprise will set up various diverse VPNs, and each of these will connect to diverse internet resources. Through the assignment of users to these VPNs, diverse users can have diverse levels of data accesses. The access controls and t management are critical for protecting and securing the enterprise and private data, hence mitigating cases of data breaches.

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Ashraf, Z. (2018). Virtual private networks in theory and practice.

Nur Hidayat, F., Aulia, A. Y., Hilmansyah, S., & Gunawan, Y. P. (2018). Analisis perbandingan virtual private network. 

https://doi.org/10.31227/osf.io/rkc46

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As its name suggests, a private network is extended across a public network with an encrypted connection of a device to a network. It enables users of a network to utilize management facilities of vast networks and exploit economies of scale. Users are able to securely transmit and receive information across shared networks in a way that is similar to devices directly connected to a private network. Usually, applications from a client’s device are loaded to a physical channel of the local network transmitted to a public network, in this case, the internet, and decoded to the server’s system by yet another physical local network.

With a VPN, the process is shortened and made even more secure by the connection of a client’s device directly to the server by use of a private, virtual, and secure channel. Its primary purpose is to create remote access to corporate resources and applications. VPNs are primarily used to create a vast area network that covers broad geographic zones providing an end-to-end connection to the network offices and allows users to contact their Local Area Network companies. A VPN enables the segregation of different customers’ traffics on a network, and each is transmitted on its own. It also interconnects multiple analogous networks over a distinct network. Virtual private network systems can be classified by the protocol used in channeling traffic, connection’s topology, security levels provided, number of concurrent connections, the location point of a tunnel’s termination, and OSI layer presented to a connecting network. (Stallings, 2011).

VPN facilitation of data safety

A VPN is an assurance of the safety of data since its technology is ideal and bulletproof. A tunnel is created to transmit encrypted data between a source and the destination, and hackers cannot inflict damage on the data since the location and data are invisible and inaccessible. Change of an IP address in collaboration with a Virtual Private Network hides identity from any third party that is after your identity and conceals your data from mobile carriers and any snoops making the data safe. Authentication by the use of passwords and other security keys is also useful in the privacy and security of data in a VPN (Wright, 2000).

References

Stallings, W. (2011). Cryptography and network security: Principles and practice. Prentice-Hall.

Wright, M. A. (2000). Virtual private network security. Network Security, 2000(7), 11-14.

https://doi.org/10.1016/s1353-4858(00)07018-5