What is "Virtual Private Network"?

1. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a technology that creates a secure and encrypted connection over a less secure network, such as the public internet. 2. Its primary purpose is to allow users to securely access a private network (like an organization's network) from a remote location. 3. It achieves this by tunneling the data traffic and encrypting it, thereby maintaining the security and confidentiality of the information transmitted, even though it travels across a public network. 4. Option (B) accurately captures this essence: using the public internet to provide secure access to the organization's network. 5. Option (A) is partially correct but less precise; the transmission isn't just *through* the server, but rather a secure tunnel is established *to* the network over the internet. 6. Option (C) describes cloud computing or shared computing resources, not a VPN.