Efficient mobile working requires location independent access to internal information. Is a SSL- authenticated access not sufficient you need a possibility to establish a secure connection to the internal network. Conventional RAS-connections through PSTN is offering a certain security but has other disadvantages. Today using broadband with a VPN-tunnel is the solutioin.
Prinzip eines VPN Tunnel
VPNs establish a connection to the internal Network - similar is and also possible is a secured terminal server session.
What's is applied to workstations and domains, this has to be applied to VPNs and Terminalservers of course, because there is access to networks is granted and there is no physical presence necessary. For this reasons strong authentication for VPN and Terminal Server Sessions is essential because risk is higher than it was ever on Wardialing
in the stone age of Remote Computing.
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Entrust IdentityGuard
Entrust IdentitiyGuard is a versatile authentication platform, which is offering different authentication methods covering most different requirements regarding security and convencience.
Gemalto - Protiva SA
In a world where securing network identities are key success factors for enterprise business operations, Gemalto brings Protiva, a packaged offer for enterprise network security based on One-Time-Passwords, generated by .NET smart cards from Gemalto.
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