Virtual Private Network
What is Virtual Private Network?
A technology that creates an encrypted tunnel between a user's device and a remote server, protecting data in transit and masking the user's IP address.
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What the standards actually require on virtual private network
Requirements naming virtual private network across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
For selected data categories, all data in transit is protected, for example with encrypted protocols, data masking or a virtual private network where needed.
australian-energy-sector-cyber-security-framework-aescsf::ARCHITECTURE-5c · ARCHITECTURE-5c: All data in transit protected for selected categories →Security management comprises the organizational, process and technical measures that keep regulated systems, data and records confidential, intact and available, minimizing internal and external threats: controls against unauthorized or inadvertent access, ro...
gamp-5-good-automated-manufacturing-practice::O11 · Appendix O11 Security Management →Security Layer 2 Services per X.805 Clause 7.2: The Services Security Layer is concerned with security of network services that service providers offer to their customers - encompasses the protection of the basic network connectivity services + supplementary v...
X805-Layer2-Services-Security-Frame-Relay-ATM-IP-VoIP-QoS-Toll-Free-IM-VPN-AAA-DNS · ITU-T X.805 Security Layer 2 - Services Security + Frame Relay + ATM + IP + VoIP + QoS + Toll-Free + Instant Messaging + VPN + AAA Authentication-Authorization-Accounting + DNS + IMS + 5G + Cellular Mobile Voice + SMS →Directions 8-10 impose detailed customer KYC + subscriber-records retention obligations on Data Centre + Cloud Service Provider + Virtual Private Server (VPS) + Virtual Private Network (VPN) service providers - a controversial set of provisions affecting India...
CERTIN-DC-VPS-VPN-CloudSP-CustomerKYC-SubscriberRecords-5YearRetention-Dir8to10 · CERT-In Directions 8-10 Service Provider Obligations - Data Centre + Virtual Private Server + VPN Service Provider Customer KYC + Subscriber Records + 5-Year Retention After Cancellation →Comply with the Cybersecurity Law prohibitions on unauthorised Virtual Private Network (VPN) use, anonymisation tools, and circumvention software.
MMCL-3 · VPN Restrictions and Circumvention Tool Prohibitions →Traditional networking equipment, for example virtual private networks and routers, must support and prefer CNSA 2.0 by 2026 and use it exclusively by 2030. The CSfC addendum places IPsec gateways, MACsec gateways and WLAN access systems in this class;
nsa-guidance-for-transition-to-quantum-resistant-cryptography::T-NET · T-NET Traditional networking equipment such as VPNs and routers: support and prefer by 2026, exclusive use by 2030 →Questions people ask about virtual private network
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