Karen's manager knows that she is working on implementing a VPN connection between the company's on-premises data center and the cloud service provider her company uses. The manager approached her with a concern to make sure that she wasn't using an older data link layer protocol developed by Microsoft that is no longer considered secure. Which of the following was most likely the protocol that the manager was concerned about?
A) L2TP
B) PPTP
C) GRE
D) OpenVPN

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PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) is the older data link layer protocol developed by Microsoft that is no longer considered secure due to its vulnerabilities and weak encryption standards.

Karen's Manager Knows That She Is Working on Implementing a VPN