for those already familiar with the function of a proxy server there's a
good chance that the mere mention of them brings up images ranging from that
of your friendly network engineer to those of Steampunk inspired hackers
brandishing ridiculous looking headgear and while these two extremes are not
totally incorrect as far as examples go they don't exactly represent the
entirety of the spectrum either now originally proxy servers were
instrumental in allowing multiple computers on local network to access the
internet without their IP addresses conflicting but the invention of an IP
remapping method known as Network address translation allowed this
capability to be inexpensively integrated into routers but just because
proxies are no longer needed to connect to the internet doesn't mean they have
fallen completely out of use it turns out that there are still quite a few
functional roles that proxies can serve for those operating on a network one
role is squid style caching which can be used to store things like frequently
accessed Online files downloads and updates eliminating the need for a
Network's worth of users to download said materials individually this not
only has the benefit of greatly increasing transfer speeds because files
are now taken from a private network instead of over the internet but hey if
you're in Canada it might also have an impact on your overall bandwidth limits
as well and proxy networks can be used in conjunction with special tunneling
protocols to act as a security gatekeeper verifying or encrypting
packets routed through it depending on their direction of travel recent demands
for increased security among businesses and individuals alike has led to Greater
use of these Services known as vpns which businesses use in an effort to
shield things like their customers monetary information or internal company
data that they need to be able to access remotely and indiv uals use for well
similar reasons and also things like accessing online services that are
region locked or skirting around overzealous governmental intrusion and
censorship so to better explain this aspect of proxy server functionality
will turn to one of my ever popular analogies let's say your uh PC IP
address sitting at your local uh internet bar or whatever when suddenly
you spy this beautiful lus Tech tips Forum site two doors down the street in
the window of a foreign bar now although theoretically you should be able to walk
down and take a peek at that foreign website's content in reality there is a
bouncer named The Great firewall who prevents you from entering so what you
have to do then is go next door to your
boy the proxy servers Place who is able
to let you slip into the foreign Club through a side door because they can't
tell that you came from you know scrub land internet cafe or whatever the case
may be you can score that with websites binary digits and sneak back out without
them ever knowing where you came from but with all of that said we've painted
proxy servers with a rainbow colored brush so far and they're not purely used
as a Force for good while most people have honest intentions when using proxy
services to discreetly Cruise the web a small percentage of users including the
fashionably challenged hackers I mentioned before use them for attacks
including what is referred to as a manin the-middle attack which disguises an
intrusion into a system as legitimate IP traffic originating from a proxy this is
particularly worrisome because it can end up painting a very large red Target
on those servers which contain copious amounts of valuable information because
as the old saying goes one man's cash is another man's treasure or something
along those lines so while automated data caching can be tremendous for
reducing little headaches the big headaches that can result if your IT
staff isn't on the ball and some compromis files slip through and push to
an entire network of PCS is a clear potential downside speaking of clear
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