In this increasingly margin conscious world, businesses are always looking for cost effective, yet reliable and secure methods to connect their resources, employees and business partners across increasingly wider areas, and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology offers a viable solution that meets these concerns. Rather than depend on costly, dedicated leased lines to connect computers together, businesses can instead make safe secure connections via the internet in conjunction with VPN software. Within this paper we will provide an overview of the VPN technology, how to install it, an…