IT Manager's Guide to Virtual private networks

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Your step-by-step guide to VPN implementation and the newest IETF standards in vendor products. How can you build a network that is both secure and efficient? How do you know which equipment will best suit your corporation's needs' Answers to these and many other questions can be found in IT Manager's Guide to Virtual Private Networks. Virtual private networks, a collection of technologies that creates secure links over intranets and the Internet, are the newest, most important development for corporations. This is the first book that gives you in-depth coverage of PPTP, other tunneling protocols, and the IP security (IPSEC) protocol based on the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF's) finanlized RFC standards for Internet Security Protocols. It is your one-stop resource for implementing efficient and secure electronic networks for your enterprise. The author gives practical advice for using and managing a secure VPN and gives you essential information for determining how to make sure different vendor solutions will fulfill your requirements. Using a practical approach, you will apply real-world VPN implementation through: an implementation checklist of business considerations that are important to implementing a VPN successfully; real-world scenarios to challenge your critical thinking and adroitness in applying VPN technology; examples of VPN solutions for small-to-multinational enterprises; business assessment plans and implementation considerations. This is an invaluable resource for IT managers, CIOs, network systems engineers, department managers and network application developers, and anyone who needs to understand the issues surrounding an effective BPN deployment.