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Feb 27, 2012

Remote Technology :: Access Sensitive Data Remotely

A virtual private network (VPN) is a network that connects a remote PC — your laptop beside the pool in Shanghai — to a central network elsewhere, like your employer's secure network back home.

Think of VPNs as tunnels; secure tunnels that your sensitive data can travel through on its way to its destination.
The purpose of a VPN is to allow you to access your data from anywhere without any sacrifice of security. With a VPN connection, everything seems as though you are simply connected directly to your network, regardless of where in the world you might actually be.

Running over a Wi-Fi network, a well-secured VPN session will appear as a standard https connection to anyone watching the packets as they come and go. That means it will defeat most surveillance, interception and data theft.

Sounds good, right? Here's our guide to setting up your own VPN for secure connections wherever you go.

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