“The Arkoon solution has allowed us to deliver access to our information systems for external users.”
La Rochelle city council
Firewall router VPN
Firewall router VPN, Arkoon.
The SSL VPN functionalities become an essential component
of current network & security architectures. They offer a secured
and multi-purpose access in Web mode to the network resources. SSL VPN
is a technology perfectly adapted to the development of mobility by contributing
to simplify the implementation of virtual private networks.
Arkoon Network Security conceives its SSL VPN products willing to supply
the security level, the performance, the simplicity of use required by
this type of solutions.
The SSL VPN server secures the applicative flows between the roadwarrior
workstations and an SSL gateway. It contributes to simplify the implementation
of virtual private networks, which makes this technology perfectly adapted
to the development of mobility.
Unlike the IPSEC technologies traditionally used by roadwarriors, SSL
VPN allows mobile users to gain access to their E-mails, to their enterprise’s
intranet, or to applications located in its internal network, through
a simple Web browser, without any client hardware or software configuration.
Moreover SSL VPN enables the enterprise to create a secured extranet
giving access to its staff members and partners, located outside of the
enterprise, to some applications through a simple Web browser. The use
of the SSL protocol permits VPN connections to go through most firewalls,
thus offering the flexibility of use adapted to mobility (connection from
a customer’s or a partner’s LAN through the firewalls).
The SSL VPN server mainly operates on the applicative level unlike the
IPSec VPN which operates on the network level. It requires the implementation
of an http server which permits to constitute the gateway of access. For
security reasons the implementation of the SSL VPN service must not be
done on the firewall itself. Indeed, the presence of
applicative services which are open to the outside of the LAN network,
on a network security equipment such as a firewall would
be likely to corrupt the equipment itself. That’s the reason why
the SSL VPN products offered by Arkoon are specialised appliances destined
to be implemented in the DMZ of the firewall to take
advantage of the protection functions offered by it: firewalling, intrusion
prevention and detection.
- Appliance
