A virtual private network is used by organisations to help secure data on a network. It’s very hard to access these private networks meaning that the data becomes much more secure and it can be used across a large area of a network, including many computers. This isn’t an expensive thing to do anyone can do it by using simple publicly available infrastructures.
VPN also makes use of encryption firewalls and authentications services when sending data across the web. This data is protected by putting one packet of data inside the other. The network only deals with the outer layer of data and allows the inside data to be left alone meaning not monitored. This creates the perfect security for a network.
Procedural
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The three main different privileges are read, write and execution. If they have reading privileges then they are allowed to access the file in a read only format. Write privileges lets the user to edit and replace the existing files. Execute privileges are only relevant when trying to run programs.
The benefit of using this kind of system is that it makes certain files and documents more secure. As it assures only people with the right credentials too access specific pieces of data.
Intruder Detection Systems
An intruder detection system can track network and system activities for policy violations which would then send a report of what is happening on the network to a management station.
The main goal of this system is to track any distrustful behaviour and report it back to management. There are two main types of IDS, NIDS and HIDS. NIDS stands for network intrusion detection system. These are put in strategic points of a network and monitors the networks activity and flag any untrustworthy activity. HIDS stands for host intrusion detection system. This runs on a separate network or host to the normal IDS and NIDS. This controls the inbound and outbound network traffic going through the network and again alert management and admins when traffic looks untrustworthy.
Firewall