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Security features of user VPNs

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Security features of user VPNs

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- [Narrator] For starters, we need to grant users the ability to login. At this stage of the game, we said we would authenticate users locally, so we need local user accounts. I can get to those by right-clicking on the start menu and choosing Computer Management. Here in this tool, we can expand Local Users and Groups and Users, and we can go ahead and double-click a user to view their properties, specifically the Dial-in tab. Remember, VPN evolved from Dial-in technology, So a lot of the terminology is similar to phone environments. Here, I can say Allow Access. I can manually allow Robert Robertson to connect to our network through VPN. Now that we've specified who can connect, let's take a look at how. Here, I can take a look at my Inbound Rules, and if I scroll down to Routing and Remote Access, I can see that PPTP is enabled, and we've already discussed how this protocol has been compromised. So, I'm going to disable this rule that allows PPTP traffic into our network. Also, GRE…

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