Virtual Private Networks in Business

Paper Summary:

The paper provides an overview of the market factors contributing to the growth of virtual private networks (VPNs) as enablers of interprocess communication between partners. The paper offers an assessment of the security considerations of using VPNs and an assessment of the two dominant types of VPNs including IP SEC and SSL-based. The paper presents a series of case studies that illustrate how VPNs are used today by partnership-based organizations.

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Executive Summary
Market Factors Increasing VPN Adoption by Partner-Based Organizations
Assessment of VPN Security

From the Paper:

"Globalization, the increasing emphasis on telecommuting, the exponential growth of integration and connectivity options to the Internet are all factors that are fueling the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) throughout organizations globally. In addition, the need for compliance to regulatory requirements including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance legislation (Sarbanes-Oxley Act, 2002), HIPAA and others is a significant market factor driving the development of secure VPN protocols and technologies. As a result of these and other compliance-based legislative requirements, the auditability of VPNs has increasingly become a concern for many companies who regularly rely on their VPNs for transactions."

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