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The fave: Juniper's Secure Access SSL VPN

Selected by: Greg Kohl, vice president, IT infrastructure, Kelly Services, Troy, Mich.

Because so many of our customers and temporary employees are remote and far from Kelly Services' brick-and-mortar offices, I would have to single out Juniper's SSL VPNs as making a big difference for us. With any browser and PC, our users can access our network with no setup and no administrative help.

Quick, secure access is crucial to meeting our customers' needs. I recall a particular situation in which we needed to deploy many, many employees to help a customer that was getting an unusually large volume of orders -- a real "Christmas in July" type of experience. By using Juniper's SSL VPN, we were able to react quickly.

We use Juniper's Secure 2000, 4000 and 6000 models to meet the needs of different classes of users and IT services. On average, we have anywhere from 800 to 1,000 concurrent users at any one time. And while the solution is housed in our Troy data center, it is accessed by users from as far away as Europe, Australia and Singapore.

Although we started to deploy our SSL VPNs in 2004, we are still working to use the full range of features. For instance, we want to let customers get access to different portals and view reports in a secure fashion. When you are talking about the staffing industry, securing information is crucial. At the same time, we have to keep in mind those temps that are going into a library or Internet café to use our applications.