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How Private Are Private Leased Lines?

10 years ago
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How Private Are Private Leased Lines?

A private leased line is privately used in three various ways. One of these ways that make it private is that it acts as a private jet. This means that it is dedicated to be solely used by a particular business or a person. The second way is that it acts like a bank safe. Although people know that it is there, the contents cannot be seen or cannot be broken. Apart from that, it’s also private because it acts as a private eye wherein it is disguised and no one even noticed that it is actually there.

More so, private lines are even more dedicated. Understanding leased lines; they are a data connection that is dedicated exclusively for the use of a company. Once you purchase a one-hundred megabytes per second leased line, you can also acquire one-hundred megabytes per second of connectivity. Although ISP users are trying to reach out their connections, on a private leased line, the bandwidth is solely yours.

Furthermore, a private leased line is considered as unencrypted but this is quite hard to tap. Leased lines are also secured because even the most confidential data can be sent without encryption. For a lot of businesses, a private leased line is ultimately secured. Nevertheless, if the data is top secret information, then there is no need to send them on various websites without the use of encryption.

A lot of corporate data are not actually sensitive. Although competitors may not even be delighted reading the data, they will not go that far in hacking it into the system. If ever they will, then the data must be encrypted through the use of a corporate VPN.  The privacy of the leased line is made largely irrelevant that people may copy or see the traffic, but then they cannot use it. The only thing that is revealed is the communication volume between websites.

It is also unlikely for other company to steal the corporate information as they hack the leased line network. Hackers will also find it difficult to tap the private leased line. They may use a technique called as “phishing” to be able to go deeper into the network. They try to even trick the users on entering the login credentials into such a particular misleading website which is controlled by a phisher. These websites are set up just like Gmail, Facebook and legitimate sites.

Due to the reason that a lot of employees are using the same password in various locations, the chances are higher in capturing the overly-trusting employees of logging on to the email system of the corporate office or corporate network.

The use of an IP VPN is needed to secure that the data flows. Tunnels must be clearly set up in between the two corporate offices. The minor problem lies in setting it up and adding new site that can somehow be complicated.

In making a private leased line invisible to a lot of hackers, it can likewise be incognito. It only means that it may exist but is not publicly addressable. With such a VPN solution, each of the sites will have its gateway or firewall and private leased line with its IP address. It can be targeted by a hacker with no malicious traffic. Even the hacker may make the gateway unresponsive and inaccessible by coordinating a more disturbed denial of attack. They may also create requires which make use of security holes in the router’s software.

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