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Outlining the different protocol versions

Outlining the different protocol versions

- [Instructor] For many years, consumers have been conducting transactions on the internet. Up until recently, a website could get away with not having a secure connection. However, today, most consumers insist on some form of encryption to protect against malicious activity. Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security based VPNs have been around since the early 1990s, Originally known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL, this method was widely recognized as a way to secure traffic between clients and web browsers. Now keep in mind, because of the security weaknesses in SSL, the use of an SSL VPN has been deprecated since 2015. Therefore for our discussion, we'll focus on Transport Layer Security. A Transport Layer Security VPN provides data protection for the upper layers of the OSI model while transmitting across the internet, a Transport Layer Security VPN can be used to secure HTTP, FTP, and SMTP. The protocol is…

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