Virtual private networking
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Virtual private networking
With virtual private networking (VPN), you can create
encrypted connections to information you need while
away from the office. You are in touch and in control with
encrypted access to your enterprise network for email,
database applications, and intranet.
Remote network traffic needs to be protected. Your
company might use a VPN to tunnel network traffic and
apply appropriate security policies. A VPN helps provide
network transactions with privacy and integrity and
allows users to be authenticated and authorized for
access to networks and network services.
To create a VPN, a gateway and the device authenticate
each other and negotiate encryption and authentication
algorithms to help protect the privacy and integrity of the
information that you access.

Managing virtual private

networking

To use VPN connections, you first create VPN access
points, and then select VPN access points when you use
applications to connect to the enterprise. A VPN
connection is created to the enterprise network over
another type of Internet access point connection. The
connection is created and encrypted according to a VPN
policy that is loaded when you connect to a VPN access
point.
To use virtual private networking
1Install VPN client.
For more information, see “Installing VPN client” on
page 5.
2Specify a connection to a VPN policy server.
You can specify settings for a VPN policy server in VPN
management or install the settings from a Symbian
installation system (SIS) file.
For more information, see “Connecting to VPN policy
servers” on page 8.
Note: If you install VPN policies from SIS
files, you do not have to create connections
to VPN policy servers.
3Install VPN policies from the VPN policy server.
For more information, see “Installing VPN policies from
VPN policy servers” on page 5.
4Create VPN access points.
VPN access points specify an Internet access point and
a VPN policy.
Note: VPN access points combine VPN
policies with Internet access points. When
you synchronise a VPN policy server for the
first time, matching VPN access points are