“The Arkoon solution has allowed us to deliver access to our information systems for external users.”
La Rochelle city council
VPN
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 S100
- Appliance S20
