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title: "Cisco AnyConnect VPN Realms"
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This guide is intended for faculty, staff, and students to explain the different Realms (also known as Profiles) that are offered when connecting to the Cisco AnyConnect VPN.

## VPN Realms (Profiles)

When you first connect to the Cisco AnyConnect VPN, you will be presented with a list of different Realms:

- **General-VPN**  
This is the standard VPN to which most everyone will be connecting. This VPN will allow you access to UConn Resources, as well as being Split-Tunneled (for an explanation of Split Tunneling. For more information, see [About Split Tunneling on Cisco AnyConnect VPN](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/10912006436).
- **Privileged-VPN**  
The Privileged VPN is used to grant ITS staff access to specific network resources for management purposes only.

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