Cisco VPN - Now my PC cannot "See" the other computers on my Home network

When I start up the VPN I seem to drop out of my simple networking workgroup
I have here at home.

 

VPN, or virtual private networking is the equivalent of building a
tunnel from your pc to the network to which you are connecting. While
your company (I'm presuming you are connecting to work) does have the
option to enable 'split tunnels' which would enable you to be a
'member' of both networks simultaneously, this is usually regarded as
an audit risk as it allows a user to copy files off of the corporate
network to their home pcs or nodes.

That being said, once you VPN in, it is pretty much like sitting at
your desk in the office, except for slower bandwidth and whatever
other restrictions your employer sets on VPN connections.

Hope this helps.

 

Audit, and security ... by not allowing split tunnelling you remove the risk
of the pc being compromised while browsing the Internet and providing direct
access to the corporate network.

BernieM

 

Agreed, although I still continue to believe that internal security
threats are much greater than external. ;-)