SSL VPN

Nokia's IP380 offers SSL VPN support through its NSAS (Nokia Secure Access System) facility. NSAS administration is browser based, but has a different layout to the "Voyager" system management interface. This is just as easy to use and presents no problems in practice. NSAS can also use the serial interface ...

Aventail recently updated its ASAP (Anywhere Secure Access Policy) software, and it provides a number of improvements. The most noticeable changes are improved certificate management and static route configuration.

This device is built into a rugged 3U height chassis and provides two copper Gigabit Ethernet ports for network connections (the vendor claims up to four Gigabit ports are available, but we only found two). The initial set up needs a serial connection, but subsequent configuration changes are made through ...

Many companies are looking to secure their networks from wardriving attacks and the current advice is to put a VPN behind a wireless access point. With this in mind, the following product should be ideal. The aim of the product is to secure access to network infrastructure from wireless clients ...

This box is one of the smallest in this Group Test but it managed to punch above its weight. It has most of the features that the bigger boxes have, but for a smaller price tag - good news for any business on a tight budget.

The Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE) Access 3000 from Neoteris is a hardware/software hybrid SSL VPN appliance that offers users access to network resources securely. These resources also encompass web-enabled applications and email software (Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange), as well as Unix file shares.

The netSurity Bridge system is unusual and hard to categorize. The software operates as client or server, depending on how and where it is configured. It does not provide access to a full desktop environment or to shared network resources, but it does provide an effective mechanism for accessing any ...

AEP System's A-Gate AG-600 is a Linux-based system with an Intel Pentium III processor coupled with 512Mb RAM in a 1U rack-mount chassis. The device can fit into most network topologies due to its four configurable 10/100 Base-T Ethernet connections.

Aventail was probably the first company to conceive and market the idea of the clientless SSL VPN. However it has only recently brought out its own hardware appliance that does such a job.

The OvisGate SSL VPN software can be installed on suitable Windows machines to provide SSL VPN connections to many types of client/server systems.