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Orion Computer Science Department Virtual Private Network

CS/IT students and professors at UNH are required to interact and access computing resources for their coursework, meaning they’d have to be physically on campus to do so. Alongside this, students lack a method for protecting sensitive network traffic to and from campus. These, and many more issues are remedied by our project, Orion VPN. Orion VPN is a virtual network system designed to provide users a secure and encrypted tunnel to campus from anywhere in the world. It has two parts, the VPN itself, along with a web-facing management interface. Orion was built on top of the de facto open-source VPN solution, OpenVPN, which has been granularity tuned to integrate seamlessly with existing university-owned resources. The management interface serves as a system that administrators can use to view and control client connections, and a guide to provide students and faculty with documentation in case things go awry. The protection of infrastructure has been at the forefront during the development of Orion, and is paramount to meeting network security policies of UNH. Orion VPN exists disjointed from campus internet and has location-based IDS functionality to log and report any bad actors. Future work could include improved web interface functionality and design, or ad-blocking.

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