VPN Technologies 3.2

Question 1

Site-to-Site VPN’s

Answer 1

Encrypts traffic between sites through the public internet. Most firewalls are designed to act as a VPN appliance. Traffic within the networks are still in the clear traffic, but the traffic from firewall to firewall is encrypted.

Question 2

Host-to-Site VPN (Remote Access VPN’s)

Answer 2

Remote software that creates an encrypted tunnel.

Question 3

Host-to-Host VPN’s

Answer 3

User to user encryption. Software based, does not need special hardware.