Vendor Landscape: Secure Socket Layer Virtual Private Network
Your workers are going remote. Is your security?
- As organizations employ more remote and mobile workers, providing access to and protecting the corporate network becomes significantly more important. One of the key tools in ensuring the protection of enterprise data is SSL VPN.
- If access to the corporate network is onerous for the remote employee, productivity will fall or, worse, the employee will pull sensitive data local, putting it at risk.
- Enterprise security budgets are constrained yet must be spent on an increasing number of protection mechanisms; since spending on VPN likely takes money from other security solutions, enterprises must carefully determine if VPN is really right for their environment.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- As more and more enterprise employees are going remote, the need for secure remote access solutions continues to grow. SSL VPN should be considered as a core component of every enterprise’s remote access capability.
- The SSL VPN market has matured to the point of near commoditization. Solutions fall into two camps; those that offer basic functionality for rock-bottom pricing and those that offer premium features for a comparable mark-up. Understanding enterprise needs is key to driving optimal value.
- The future of dedicated SSL VPN appliances is bleak; already some vendors are rolling the capability into other network edge devices. As more and more solution providers follow this trend, dedicated appliances for VPN will soon become a thing of the past.
Impact and Result
- Investing in a stable SSL VPN solution is necessary for the modern-day organization – employees expect to be able to work remotely if the need arises.
- Investment in VPN will supply the enterprise with a tool designed to provide optimal access to the corporate network from the outside; a tool that is aware of all enterprise users capable of accessing the network, and adjusting the offering to suit only those needs.
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