Michael, A VPN, or virtual private network, is a network that is constructed by using public wires — usually the Internet — to connect to a private network, such as a company's internal network. So for example, you can have your laptop with you at a starbucks (or even at home) and start a VPN connection to your office. Your computer will connect using the internet and setup an encrypted data stream from your laptop to the office, it will then use this encrypted path to setup a virtual LAN that nobody can access except you (Well, and the NSA :-) <wave! hi guys>). This way, even though you are on a public network, your virtual network connection to the office is protected and private and you can safely access the resources in your company network when you are out of the office. If you have two offices that are separate from one another you can use the same technology to connect the two offices as if they were on the same physical network. Andy F
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Michael L <[email protected]> wrote: > The database app runs a mailing list for DVD's. And I will say that our > current (soon to be former?) security strategy is to leave the single > machine completely off the internet. I guess that strategy will have to be > abandoned now to connect to a VPN? I understand the 'V' in VPN to mean > virtually private as opposed to actually private or virustually private if > you have a virus on one of the machines. Am I correct on that? > M > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
