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VPN

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

abbreviationCore term

In software engineering, VPN means: Virtual private network: a technology that creates an encrypted connection over the internet so that remote users or offices can reach a private network safely.

In Turkish: sanal özel ağ, VPN

How it is used

Said letter by letter. Employees connect to the VPN or work 'on VPN'; network teams set up site-to-site VPNs between offices. VPN gateways face the internet, so their vulnerabilities are often targeted and need quick patching.

Example sentences

  1. You need to connect to the VPN before you can open the internal dashboard.

  2. The site-to-site VPN between Istanbul and Frankfurt went down this morning.

Common collocations

  • connect to the VPN
  • VPN gateway
  • site-to-site VPN
  • remote-access VPN
  • VPN client
  • encryptionTurning data into an unreadable form that can only be turned back with the right key, so that people without the key cannot read it.
  • firewallA hardware device or piece of software that checks network traffic and allows or blocks it according to a set of security rules.
  • zero trustA security model that trusts no user or device by default, even inside the company network, and checks identity and context for every request.
  • TLSTransport Layer Security: the standard protocol that encrypts data travelling between two systems, such as a browser and a website, and checks the server's identity.

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