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Security:
NetScreen Sets SSL VPN Industry
Benchmark With Secure Access
NetScreen Technologies Inc announced the next-generation release of its
Secure
Access product family, built upon the new Neoteris Instant Virtual Extranet
(IVE) 4.0 platform, which includes sophisticated, enterprise-class access
management capabilities. NetScreen also announced the new NetScreen-SA Central
Manager product for unified administration of globally distributed SSL VPN
gateway deployments. With these introductions, NetScreen continues to set SSL
VPN industry standards for innovation by delivering products that serve the
secure remote access, partner extranet and intranet needs of enterprises.
The NetScreen Secure Access appliances (formerly known as the Neoteris
Access
Series) running on the IVE 4.0 platform are the first among SSL VPN solutions
that can address the advanced security needs of customers deploying partner
extranets and intranets with unique dynamic access privilege management, rich
user self-service, granular role-based delegation and centralized management.
These new comprehensive access management capabilities give network
administrators a robust solution to deploy and control access privileges for
large and diverse end-user populations, such as employees, corporate partners
and customers.
The new access privilege management features in the NetScreen Secure Access
appliances can provide IT personnel flexibility in defining rich
authentication and authorization policies for diverse user groups. Highly
expressive parameters make dynamic access provisioning possible, since
administrators can define diverse access privileges on the fly and map to
various session roles depending on factors such as user identity; network
trust level; device control/security (managed or unmanaged); dynamic device
state (based on recurring end point checks); device type (PC or wireless);
session parameters (time of day, login time); and security level, such as
dual-factor authentication or certificates.
By combining these new variables in dynamic authentication policies,
expressive role definition and mapping rules, and resource-based authorization
policies, administrators can provision access by need or purpose to ensure
compliance with enterprise security policies and business requirements.
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"We require advanced access management capabilities like these to assign
appropriate resource access privileges to law enforcement and criminal
intelligence personnel connecting from trusted and untrusted networks to their
centralized applications from remote locations across their state," said John
Wandelt, senior research scientist and secure information-sharing program
manager at Georgia Tech Research Institute, which is consulting on several
secure information sharing initiatives serving intelligence analysts and
criminal investigators. "Support for several standards-based authentication
and privilege management mechanisms provides for flexible integration into
existing infrastructure and can minimize impact, complexity and total cost of
ownership."
The NetScreen Secure Access product family also includes features that
enable
user self-service, customization, and delegation for enhanced end-user
productivity and reduced total cost of ownership. The NetScreen Secure Access
appliance's new customizable user interface and support for multiple hostnames
enable a transparent user experience by providing differing user groups with
customized entry and domains. Granular role-based delegation can alleviate IT
bottlenecks by distributing the workload among qualified personnel.
Enterprises can also delegate administrative control based upon business,
geography and functional needs.
"Many organizations are interested in a complete remote access solution for
their constituents and partners, including the ability to protect web-based
resources without requiring the deployment of a full-fledged Extranet Access
Management (EAM) system," said Ray Wagner, research director of Gartner Inc.
"An appliance-based remote access solution with EAM capabilities provides an
appealing mix of functionality, and may help enterprises looking for a way to
provision EAM functionality more cost effectively."
The NetScreen Secure Access product family has set SSL VPN industry
benchmarks
for security, access, and scalability since their introduction in 2001. Unlike
traditional distributed software-based extranet/intranet security solutions,
the NetScreen Secure Access product family provides a cost-effective and
scalable secure access management solution in an appliance form factor. The
NetScreen Secure Access appliances deliver this rich feature set without
requiring enterprises to make network infrastructure changes, deploy
distributed software agents onto Web and application servers, or maintain the
security of numerous and diverse public facing application servers. The
appliances can eliminate expensive and time-consuming extranet application
integration, which can lower deployment and on-going operational and
maintenance costs.
"We believe the cost-effectiveness of our solution has helped drive rapid
adoption of SSL VPN solutions for employee access, and has sparked demand for
expanded use to other business applications, such as partner extranets and
corporate intranets," said Krishna Kolluri, general manager of NetScreen's
secure access products. "With our new access management capabilities, we are
uniquely positioned with a cost-effective solution that addresses extranet,
intranet, and remote access security needs. NetScreen has once again redefined
the SSL VPN space with this new release of the IVE 4.0 platform."
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