The Cisco® VPN 3000 Series offers best-in-class remote-access VPN devices that provide businesses with unprecedented cost savings through flexible, reliable, and high-performance remote-access solutions. The Cisco VPN 3000 Series offers solutions for the most diverse remote-access deployments by offering both IP Security (IPsec) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-based VPN connectivity on a single platform.
Corporations use VPNs to establish secure, end-to-end private network connections over a public networking infrastructure, allowing them to reduce their communications expenses. By offering both SSL and IPsec VPN on one platform-without the expense of special feature licensing-the Cisco VPN 3000 Series provides customers with cost-effective alternatives to deploying parallel remote-access infrastructures. Remote connections can be established either from a SSL-capable Web browser or from VPN client software, allowing for maximum flexibility and application access. This centralized architecture provides ease of management and implementation in deployments that require detailed access controls for numerous deployment scenarios with diverse user communities, including mobile workers, telecommuters, and extranet users.
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
To fully realize the benefits of high-performance, secure remote access, a robust, highly available VPN solution is needed. Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator Software v4.7 incorporates the most advanced, high-availability capabilities with a unique purpose-built, remote-access architecture that enables corporations to build high-performance, scalable, and robust VPN infrastructures to support their mission-critical, remote-access application requirements.
New features in Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator Software v4.7 deliver extensive application access, best-in-market endpoint security, data integrity protection, leading infrastructure access, and network compliance validation controls.
Benefits of the Cisco VPN 3000 Series include:
• Advanced endpoint security-A primary component of Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator Software v4.7 is the Cisco Secure Desktop, which offers pre-connection security posture assessment and seeks to minimize data such as cookies, browser history, temporary files, and downloaded content from being left behind after an SSL VPN session terminates. The Cisco Secure Desktop feature is combined with IPsec client-enabled Are-You-There (AYT) support for personal firewall verification, and with IPsec client-enabled Network Admission Control (NAC), an industry initiative that uses the network infrastructure to enforce security policy compliance on all devices seeking to access network computing resources. Together, these three solutions form a powerful endpoint security package that increase protection of confidential data and helps to combat costly network attacks.
• Broad application support for SSL VPN-The Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrator platform offers extensive application support through its dynamically downloaded SSL VPN client, enabling network-layer connectivity to virtually any application. The Cisco VPN 3000 Series delivers truly clientless support for Citrix application access, allowing a low-overhead extension of the network resources to VPN users through a standard Web browser. Pure clientless and thin-client port forwarding options may be deployed for environments with limited application access requirements, such as extranets.
• Ease of deployment with zero-touch remote endpoint management-Integrated Web-based management on Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators provides a simple interface to configure and monitor all remote-access users, providing ease of manageability across both IPsec and SSL VPN environments. Group-based management features allow administrators to design security policies and authentication methods for each group, which is essential when extending network resources to non-corporate-managed users and endpoints. For remote-access and site-to-site VPNs, ease of deployment is critical when technical resources are not available for configuration at the remote site. The Cisco Easy VPN solution, consisting of Cisco Easy VPN Remote and Easy VPN Server, pushes security policies defined at the central site to remote VPN devices, helping to ensure that those connections have up-to-date policies in place before the connection is established, thereby offering flexibility, scalability, and ease of use for site-to-site and remote-access VPNs.
• Comprehensive deployment scenario coverage-IPsec and SSL are complementary technologies that address unique user access requirements; both are necessary in order for a company to meet the needs of a diverse user base. Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrators support both IPsec and SSL VPN, allowing businesses to choose the most appropriate technology for users accessing the network through different scenarios. This provides maximum flexibility and application access, all on one platform, alleviating the need to deploy and manage separate infrastructures.
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