In June, the Hartford Group released a white paper identifying eight ways small business owners can reduce the likelihood of a data breach, including secure remote access through the deployment of a virtual private network (VPN) and regular review of data security practices.

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The secure communication link is a virtual private network communication link over the computer network in which one or more data values that vary according to a pseudo-random sequence are inserted into each data packet.

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It is possible malicious hackers can intercept this data unless you set up a security such as a remote access virtual private network (VPN).

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