Limitations of Virtual Private Network (VPN) in Organizational Structure

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Abstract
Considering the current industrial scenario it is
very important for the organization to have an
effective security protocol for their business
structure as it works with large set of data. The
leakage of those data may cause a significant
issues related to the service and reputation of
the organizational services. Followed by the
above aspects the application of VPN in the
organizational structure plays an important
role as it offers effective security service to the
organization. However, studies has proven that
there are several benefits of the application of
VPN, it has been also observed that there is
still some limitations present in the operations
of VPN which has been described in this
article. Thus, in order to effective analyse the
threat factors of the application VPN this
paper has fundamentally focused on the
drawbacks of VPN.
Introduction
Followed by the information security
aspect of the organizational data, it is highly
essential to provide the higher protection to the
organizational transaction as well as it is also
essential to provide effective solutions to have
a feature of data recovery in the organizational
field. The fundamental purpose of this paper is
to provide a thorough investigation on the
services of VPN as well as it will also analyse
the limitations present in the operations of
VPN while working in an organizational
structure. Followed by the above investigation
this study will also consist a brief investigation
on the mitigation process of the VPN threat
issues. Along with that the paper will also
cover a detail analysis on how other alternative
technologies can be utilized in order to
mitigate the problems caused by the
application of VPN. Lastly, it will conclude
with explaining how the application of the
suggested technologies are better than the
application of VPN.
Literature Review
According several studies it has been
observed that the implementation of the VPN
in the field of organization offers significant
facilities which helps the organization to
invoke their services as well as it helps to
protect the organizational information from
external threats. VPN stands for Virtual
Private Network which offers the organization
to work with an organizational authorized
network which allows the user to effectively
transact the information within the
organization of publically. The fundamental
purpose of this method is to provide protection
to the organization network as after utilizing
this method the users of the targeted network
will be able to only access the resources which
are connected with the organizational network
with proper authentication. In order to
maintain the security in the private network
this method has offered the authentication
process by certificates and passwords along
with the utilization of layered tunnelling
protocol has a significant role towards its
success. However, the implementation of VPN
has provided several advantages related to the
organizational services, various limitations has
been noticed in the working of VPN. From a
thorough analysis on the operations and
functionalities of VPN it has been determined
that there is a significant issue related to the
privacy of the user data, work efficiency, cost
as well as the limitations related to the
adoption of VPN for several devices. Thus,
this paper has fundamentally focused to
determine limitation of the VPN application.
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Followed by the above aspects this
paper has continued with the investigation
with the operation of the VPN. The thorough
investigation has stated that the application of
Virtual Private Network carries several
limitation related to the privacy issues of the
user information as well as the customer
investigation. It stands to represent the
problem which stated that since, the
organization which utilizes the VPN for the
organization operation it has been observed
that the organizational information as well as