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As companies expand their presence globally, there arises a need for secure electronic communications between geographically dispersed locations. Virtual private networks (VPNs) provide an economically viable option to address this need. A VPN is a private network that uses the public Internet to either connect remote users to the company's internal network or establish a seamless connection between the company's physically isolated sites. Since a VPN uses the Internet it must provide security features like encryption and strong authentication to protect the confidentiality of internal company data. Thus there is a need for penetration testing of a VPN to discover vulnerabilities. A penetration testing of a VPN is suggested in the paper.