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