Remote access

Overview

For most businesses remote access has become a key requirement in their day to day operations, whether the requirement is just for employees, contractors or even customers the ability to understand who they are, what kind of device they are using to access from and how secure that device is has become a major part in the choice of the solution deployed.  Whilst the business needs to provide remote access to applications and data within the corporate network, this needs to be done with security in mind and with the ability to interact, interoperate or integrate with the border gateway security of the network.

With the added explosion of mobile devices and tablets and the challenge businesses face with Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) within the workplace, choosing the correct vendor for today with tomorrow in mind has become a difficult task for most.

Market Trends

Traditionally remote access has been provided by IPsec software clients connecting users to the corporate network but over time these solutions have lacked the flexibility to grow as users need to access many different corporate applications from various types of client devices.

With new schemes in place like BOYD users are now expecting access to corporate resources from different types of devices such as tablets, personal laptops and smartphones from any location. SSL VPN solutions can provide a business with this level of flexibility whilst ensuring that security is not compromised. The complication with this advancement in the remote access market is that users can be using multiple technologies to connect into the same resources which require the same level of service and support, however a different security policy based on the endpoint device is also required which traditionally would have been an issue but today there are technologies that now have the ability to discern user and device type in any combination at a practical and manageable level.

Solution Benefits

SSL Technology has become the solution of choice for many businesses as they are able to offer you many features over and above the traditional IPsec clients.

• Posture checking to ensure the security state of a connecting device
• Access based on user credentials or user group membership
• Clientless access via a webpage
• VDI integration
• Enforcement of corporate security policys
• Access from any location
• WAN optimisation for increases application speeds
• Easy and secure access for 3rd parties or contractors

With these features businesses are able to deploy a remote access solution that not only enforces their security policy, but provides users with a simple and flexible way to access applications and data from any authorised or authenticated device.

Why SecureData?

SecureData is the largest Independent security service providerin the UK and offers a wide range of technologies and services.  We have specifically worked with Remote Access technology for many years. With IPSec moving into SSL based technology over the past 10 years and through extensive and continuous research of this market are able to offer a variety of technologies to suit your requirements.  The technologies that we offer are seen as ’best of breed’ within the security market and have been selected not only because of the features they offer but also because of the vendors’ commercial offerings, ability to provide global support, ability to include new features and support future trends.  We invest time in not only choosing the correct technologies to sit within our portfolio, but also in Sales and Technical training so that not only are we able to supply the correct technology to suit your requirements but are also able to offer Professional Services for Implementation and Training backed up by either a supported, monitored or managed service. We achieve the highest levels of technical and commercial accreditations with all those vendors that sit within our product portfolio.