Your organization has received quite a few new contracts lately. This has increased the need for teleworkers and workload outsourcing. The new contract vendors and clients will also need access to your network as the projects progress.

As network administrator for the organization, you recognize that VPNs must be incorporated as a part of your network strategy to support secure access by the teleworkers, employees, and vendors or clients.

To prepare for implementation of VPNs on the network, you have to devise a VPN Planning Report to be presented to the head of your department.

INSTRUCTIONS

For the VPN Planning Report, you are to select an organisation of your choice from the following business sector (See APPENDIX A). The selected organisation will be your case study, to which you will apply what you have learnt so far about Wide Area Network. While you may use your creativity to structure the case study, a template with suggested headings are shown as below:

1. Title .

2. Table of contents.

3. Background information of your organization that includes business orientation, business structure, and size of employees .

4. VPN planning checklist: Provide description that includes a narrative section describing your planning checklist. Your description should include all items in planning checklist, as shown in APPENDIX B. Be sure to include the rationale for items 3-8 in the checklist.

5. Topology design: Use Packet Tracer to draw the current topology for your network; no device configurations are necessary. Include:

Minimum of two branch offices: the Internet cloud and one headquarters location

Current network devices: servers, switches, routers/core routers, broadband ISR devices, and local user workstations

Identify where would you implement the VPNs

6. Summary, which must include a high-level statement of what you have achieved in the case study

7. Reference

APPENDIX A: LIST OF BUSINESS SECTORS

1. University

2. Oil and gas

3. Manufacturing

4. Clinic

5. Bank

6. Restaurant

7. Retail store

8. Broadcasting

APPENDIX B: VPN CHECKLIST PLANNING

PLANNING CHECKLIST

DESCRIPTION

1.

VPN Project Goals

Write minimum of THREE (3) project goals that support incorporation of VPNs as a part of your network strategy

2.

VPN Factors to Support:

Example:

Scalability

Cost

Interoperability

Security

Quality of Service

Network Maintenance

Applications Support

Identify minimum of FIVE (5) VPN factors to support incorporation of VPNs as a part of your network strategy

3.

VPN Users and Applications:

Example:

Internal Network Users

Customers

Vendors

Teleworkers

Identify type of VPN users and approximate numbers for each type to suit your organization's operation.

4.

type of VPN connection

Example:

Site-to-site

Remote access

DMVPN

Identify type of VPN connection to support your organization's operation.

5.

Network resources available to VPN users:

Example:

Software applications

File

Servers

Identify the network resources available to each VPN users to support your organization's operation.

6.

VPN protocols to be used:

Example:

SSL

IPsec GRE

Identify suitable VPN protocols to support the type of VPN connection.

6.

Technologies currently in use:

Example:

NAT

ACL

DHCP

DNS

Elaborate updates or changes needed in technologies currently in use in your organization to support the incorporation of VPNs.

8.

Security methods: Selection of security methods:

Authentication

Encryption

HASH message type

Key exchange type

Identify the security methods to support VPN protocols to be used (if necessary)