VPN - JHU

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INTRO

Several JHU IT-based resources require your computer to be connected to the JHU network for access. For example, JHU-located share drives and certain JHU websites/services. If you're outside of JHU, for instance, at home or at a hotel, you are not on the JHU network, and therefore, cannot access the JHU Network-only resources.

Enter the VPN. A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a way to access resources of another network, for example, your business's network, without physically residing on that network. You can connect to a VPN from home/mobile, and to your computer and to the business, you're on the business network, even if physically, you're not.

JHU hosts its own VPN. The JHU VPN will allow JHU users' home/mobile/etc. computers (home/mobile) who are outside of the JHU network to connect to JHU as if they were physically on campus.

Accessing the JHU VPN