QUESTION 5 OF 30

Are there applications or environments in which VPNs may be detrimental and cause more harm than they do good?

It is natural for business leaders who are not familiar with technology to be skeptical about its use and benefits. Asking how the VPN may be detrimental to the network is a natural question you should expect during an interview. Nothing is without faults, and you should be able to talk about situations in which the VPN is not applicable. Make sure you don't fabricate something that is either unrealistic or not relevant to the company's environment.

"In general, the answer is no. However, suppose a VPN is used on a system behind a firewall to a system outside the firewall. In that case, the firewall cannot enforce an organization's security policy beyond connection rules. VPNs should also not be used in situations where there is no confidential or proprietary information being transmitted across the network, and the network performance needs to be optimized."

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