Virtual Private Networks
Keywords : Virtual Private Networks, Encrypted Tunnels, Encrypted Channels, IP Channels, VPN, Enterprise Security, Information Security,
Aventail: Providing Virtual Private Networks for Trusted Extranet Communications (White Paper) The VPN market is on the verge of explosive growth. A virtual private network (VPN) broadly defined, is a temporary, secure connection over a public network, usually the Internet. Though the term is relatively new, everyone from the telcos, to operating system vendors, to firewall suppliers and router companies has rushed to offer some type of VPN capability. Why? Because VPNs make sense, and as a result, the market is expected to reach at least several billion dollars by the year 2001. By leveraging the Internet, VPNs offer significant cost savings, greater flexibility, and easier management relative to traditional internetworking methods, such as leased lines and dial-up remote access.
Virtual Private Networking Solution - Internet Interstate would like to introduce your company to a new Internet technology that can cut the cost of communicating with your remote offices nationwide from 30-75%. Our solution is called Virtual Private Networking or VPN, a secure medium for communicating private data. VPN replaces the cost of dedicated long distance telephone lines for your wide area network (WAN) with a "tunnel" through the Internet to complete your data transmissions. VPN uses specially configured hardware on both ends of the tunnel to encrypt each packet. Encrypted packets become unreadable by anyone who might try to intercept your data. Internet Protocol (IP), the packet delivery system of the Internet, coupled with our VPN solution ensures that your remote office automatically translates packets back into readable messages in a secure, reliable, and unmodified manner. Internet Interstate will also provide a corporate firewall so you will have full control of your employees’ network access as well as the ability to prevent any unauthorized activities by outsiders. Turn-Key Access Solutions
Welcome to Signal 9 Solutions: Virtual Private Network - VPN - and Internet Security ConSeal PC FIREWALL is a network security tool that helps your Windows 95 system defend itself from the actions of other unscrupulous people on the Internet. It can provide home and enterprise desktop users with levels of network security previously only available from larger and more expensive corporate firewall solutions. ConSeal PC FIREWALL Virtual Private Networks (VPN) have emerged as a relatively inexpensive way to solve this problem.. Rather than maintaining an expensive point-to-point leased line, a company would connect each office or Local Area Network (LAN) to a local Internet Service Provider and route the data through the Internet, thereby using shared, low-cost public bandwidth as the communications backbone. Secure Virtual Private Networks ConSeal Tunnel allows organizations to exploit the low-cost Internet (or any IP medium such as wireless, satellite, cellular, ham radio, etc.) to construct a secure virtual private network. Computer networks in multiple locations can be securely and transparently connected using the public Internet as the communications backbone. Offices located across the country, or around the world, now can communicate securely with each other without fear of their information being compromised. For example, remote sales offices, warehouses, manufacturing facilities and corporate headquarters can all be connected in a single secure virtual private network. The ConSeal Tunnel is based on encrypted single stream tunnel technology. A tunnel allows information to be passed from one network to another over the Internet as if the two were connected by a dedicated line. ConSeal Tunnel secures tunnel communications by combining mutual authentication, strong encryption, single stream communications, and digital signatures. The result is an affordable encryption product with superior security capabilities. ConSeal Tunnel Product
WatchGuard Technologies - From Firewall to Firebox WatchGuard Firebox - a "plug and play" network security appliance, compact and easy to deploy. A Secure Firewall - packet filtering and transparent proxies deliver full firewall protection. Built-in User Authentication - identifies individual users and can tell them apart to define appropriate network access. Built-in Remote User VPN - securely links any remote laptop or PC to the corporate network to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Security Management System - software used to configure the WatchGuard System, implement full firewall protection and see the status of installed network services at a glance. All WatchGuard VPN products use manual key management and RSA's RC4 encryption algorithm. The WatchGuard System supports strong encryption with RSA RC4 128-bit encryption for the U.S. and Canada and RSA RC4 40-bit for export outside the U.S. and Canada.
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TimeStep - encryption solutions for virtual private networking (VPN) Kanata, Ontario – January 8, 1998 - TimeStep Corp., an affiliate of Newbridge Networks Corp., announced today that its PERMIT Enterprise secure virtual private network (VPN) solution has been awarded the prestigious Data Communications Hot Product award for 1998 in the hardware VPN category. The fully standards compliant (IETF IPSEC and ITU X.509v3) secure VPN product was chosen for it’s innovative architecture that includes a built in certificate authority and firewall features along with authentication and encryption functions. PERMIT Enterprise is an IPSEC-compliant secure VPN system designed for large-scale business communications. By integrating best-of-breed technologies from Entrust Technologies and Check Point, PERMIT Enterprise consolidates secure VPN, access control, and authentication technologies in a single solution. All of which makes PERMIT Enterprise the complete network security solution for corporate intranets, extranets, and Internet remote LAN access. PERMIT/Gate product family PERMIT/Gate is a two-port Ethernet gateway that secures data communications for the nodes on the network or subnet within your secure VPN. The PERMIT/Gate 2500 and 4500 series provide IPSEC-compliant protocol negotiation, tunneling, and high-speed encryption services at 4Mbps and 10Mbps respectively. With PERMIT/Config, each PERMIT/Gate may be easily configured, upgraded, and administered remotely from anywhere on the secure VPN. The PERMIT/Gate 2500 and 4500 series is also available with an integrated Check Point Firewall-1 Inspection Module option.
Virtual Private Networks This book tells you how to plan and build a virtual private network, a collection of technologies that creates secure connections or "tunnels" over regular Internet lines. It starts with general concerns like costs and configuration and continues with detailed descriptions of how to install and use VPN technologies that are available for Windows NT and UNIX, such as PPTP and L2TP, the Altavista Tunnel, and the Cisco PIX Firewall.
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