VPN (Virtual Private Network) Access

Overview 

MassArt's virtual private network (“VPN”) provides a method for authorized users to gain access to the private on-campus network when they are off-campus or connected to an insecure public network (e.g., your home network). The VPN allows an authorized user to securely access network resources and applications that are otherwise unavailable except when a user is on campus, and connected to the campus MassArt network.  The College distributes software called FortiClient, to authorized users upon request and approval.

Features

For security reasons, some technology resources (e.g., servers, applications and services) are only available on the local MassArt network, to limit exposure of data or transactions hosted on or provided by these resources from the Internet. Limiting access in this way improves information security for sensitive, confidential, and protected data or transactions. Off-campus users who connect to the VPN can access the protected resources which they are authorized to use, primarily to perform work on restricted resources outside of business hours, from a remote location. 

Who can use it?

Access to VPN is granted to all staff and faculty, however the service is only available from off-campus networks.

By default, students and alumni are not provisioned with VPN access.

Additional Information 

Fortinet (our VPN client) can be downloaded directly from Fortinet.

To configure the client see article - https://servicehub.massart.edu/SBTDClient/173/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=972