Vpns: a Beginner's Guide

Jacket Description/Back: Design and implement a virtual private network from start to finishTake advantage of the most cost-effective and secure method for connecting branch offices and enabling remote access using "VPNs: A Beginner's Guide. This instructive guide shows you how design and implement a virtual private network from start to finish. Learn everything you need to know about VPNs beginning with networking fundamentals and layering principles to VPN protocols and security methods. Get details on the latest in tunneling technologies, including point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP) and layer two tunneling protocol (L2TP), and find out how to prevent hacker attacks. Learn about the latest and most advanced VPNs, such as IP Overlay VPNs and MPLS. Eight pages of blueprints depicting various types of VPNs help illustrate the concepts you've just read about. If you want a solid introduction to the inner workings of virtual private networks, this is the ideal book for you. Get an overview of networking basics--including the OSI model, LANs, WANS, and TCPLearn all about security components--policies, concepts, and architecturesDiscover ways to filter out malicious information, and prevent threats and intrusionsUnderstand how VPNs relate to both public and private networksKnow the different types of tunneling methods and where they are usually implementedGet details on the various VPN protocols--GRE, PPTP, L2F, and L2TP, and IPSecIdentify the components that define QoS--delay, bandwidth, jitter, and reliabilityPreview the future of VPNs and understand MPLS, IP over ATM, tag switching, and morePublisher Marketing: A comprehensive introduction to VPNs and networking basics, this book provides readers with a solid foundation of networking basics and the understanding necessary for learning the complexities of the VPN technology that follows. It takes the reader through the actual steps involved in provisioning the hardware, software and set-up with the provider of services for Internet access and communications carriers, thus leading to a comprehensive understanding of all VPN protocols. There is also detailed information about securing VPNs, including information on intrusion detection. Readers gain an understanding of security, encryption, encapsulation, key management and intrusion detection systems, all necessary for a secure network. Networking blueprints for 4 different types of VPNs, including IPSec and PPPT are also included.

Contributor Bio:  Mairs, John Mairs has been a network administrator and security systems consultant for more than 14 years. Contributor Bio:  Young, Beth C. S. Fuqua is author of Hush, Puppy! A Southern Fried Tale, The Native American Flute: Myth, History, Craft, the award-winning collection, The Swing: Poems of Fatherhood, and Muscle Shoals The Hit Capital's Heyday & Beyond, among other books. His poems and short stories have appeared widely in publications such as Main Street Rag, Christian Science Monitor, Chiron Review, Cemetery Dance, Bogg, and The Old Farmer's Almanac. Beth Young is an award-winning artist with an extensive background in commercial, creative, and instructional art. A specialist in Montessori Method education and certified in early childhood education, Beth is a full-time elementary art teacher, affording her intimate knowledge of the types of illustrations that appeal most to children.