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To: DRM who wrote (2770)	6/13/1998 10:50:00 AM
From: Rene Madsen	Respond to of 7150

I haven't got much experience with Virtual Personal Networks (VPN) but unless I'm mistaken it is just a buzzword for the network you have behind the firewall so, yes, you'd still need one.

To: DRM who wrote (2770)	6/14/1998 4:03:00 AM
From: jkb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7150

A VPN passes data through the network - but in an encrypted fashion. Firewalls allow/disallow traffic into/out of the corporate network based on security policy. A combination of both is most secure. VPN's actually get into the frames of the data while firewalls allow/disallow the entrance/exit of the data into the network - again a combination of both is viewed as most secure. Triant is doing a good job marketing the usage of VPN's - and they are definitely being deployed in the enterprise community - much like she said at the beginning of the year. -Jay