What is a VPN? A simple definition of Virtual Private Network, or VPN, as it is commonly known, is the use of a public network - mainly the Internet, to create private, secure wide area networks. A more formal definition of a VPN: a combination of tunneling, encryption, authentication, and access control technologies and services used to carry traffic over the Internet, a managed IP network or a provider's backbone. The traffic reaches these backbones …
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