'Roll Drive' Style

Not too many years ago, no prudent businessman would have authorised a project that involved transmitting confidential data over the Internet.
The Internet, conventional wisdom had led many to believe, was a haven for viruses and would steal your credit card number, turn your hair green, and run your corporate secrets down the street to your biggest competitor. Such FUD was a major problem for business managers reluctant to open their chequebooks to fund projects based on such an uncertain technology.
Years down the road, the business community has grown up a lot. Its ubiquity, and singular compliance with the IP standard, has made it indispensable to all sorts of companies--and a lot more secure, thanks to the coalescence of the market for virtual private network (VPN) technology around the Secure IP (IPSec) standard.