School of Medicine VPN Service
Overview
IRT is supporting a VPN service for School of Medicine customers that need a secure way of accessing resources on the School of Medicine Network. By connecting to the School of Medicine network via VPN, users will either be able to access general School of Medicine resources which have limited access by IP address, or to portions of the School of Medicine network which are secured from external access.
A VPN is a "Virtual Private Network" which encrypts network traffic from a remote computer to the School of Medicine VPN server, which then unencrypts it and passes it to the desired destination. The School of Medicine VPN server is configured so clients connecting to it will pass all of their traffic through the VPN server. It is important to understand that after the network traffic passes through the VPN server, it is no longer in a safe network tunnel, but is only secured by the protocols you are utilizing for each connection, so be sure to continue to use appropriately secured communication methods such as HTTPS, SSH, and SSL.
This service is broken into two parts: a general pool available to all users which provides access to general school of medicine resources; and a set of localized pools for groups that require more restrictive limitations on access to their computing infrastructure.
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