What Are the Benefits of a Cloud VPN?
The Cloud has transitioned the local network environment onto the Internet – meaning static, legacy VPNs are no longer enough to ensure data security. Introducing the Cloud VPN.
Cloud VPNs provide security and compliance to networks that have transitioned to the public cloud.
Secures the Cloud
While the cloud provider offers the network infrastructure, it does not address access point security into the network. In this ‘shared responsibility model’, it is up to the consumer to secure access on top of the cloud environment.
Enables Remote Access
Employees connect from multiple devices, from various locations during all hours of the night and day. A Cloud VPN allows employees to securely access the organization’s private network through public networks and even share data remotely.
What a Cloud VPN Can Do for Your Business
Protect cloud environments, staging servers and company databases with total ease.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- There are different types of cloud VPN models (network VPNs and client VPNs), and also different types of cloud VPN protocols (IPSec, SSL, WireGuard).
- A site-to-site VPN relies on the IPsec protocol and is an encryption method that tunnels from one specific network to a different remote network site – such as that of a customer. With a remote access VPN, users such as employees, connect to their private corporate network using a client portal and a login, granting them the ability to access and use the resources they’re connected to.
- There are many protocols that technologies use to establish an encrypted, private connection between entities on a network. Cloud VPNs offer most of these protocols and the best offer them all, so that companies are able to choose which works best for their own system. IPSec, SSL, PPTP, L2TPv3, WireGuard – these are all ways of establishing a private connection, but some are faster than others.
- Tunneling creates a private “tunnel”, or connection between two computers, which is separate from the web and indecipherable. The data traffic is private and unreadable to outside entities because only intended recipients have the cryptographic key.
- Gateways are separate from the idea of cloud VPNs and not necessary for their function. A Cloud VPN gateway is a physical server that sits near to users who need a connection to their corporate network, for example, so they can get a literal shortcut and avoid the latency of a globe-spanning connection.
- Yes. Cloud VPNs make a more agile solution to the inflexible attributes of legacy hardware VPNs, and the ability to support static IP addresses with it is crucial for cloud app support.