SSL VPN gateways

NetScreen garners our World Class award in a test of SSL VPN gateways, which also looks at products from AEP, F5 Networks, Netilla, Nokia, Symantec and Whale Communications.

SSL VPN gateways
NetScreen, Nokia top the growing field of products that target simplified secure remote access

SSL terms and conditions
The Secure Scokets Layer VPN market brings together many technologies to accomplish the goal of secure remote access. Understanding the strengths and limitations of SSL VPNs means knowing the meaning of four critical terms.

The myth of no fingerprints
Secure Sockets Layer VPN vendors must like frequent flyers: Many of the products we looked at in this review are geared toward the oft-mentioned Internet kiosk user. The idea here is that people travel around and want to log on to these PCs with Internet connections that dot the landscape in airports, hotels and better bus stations.

Buyer's Guide: SSL VPN gateways
Detailed product information from 15 vendors.

Net Results chart
How the seven SSL VPN gateway vendors stack up.

How we did it
Secure Sockets Layer VPN testing turned out to be a fairly complex task. We started by building a test network consisting of client systems, the SSL VPN device and servers running different enterprise applications. Each SSL VPN device would be used to connect clients to servers, and we'd record the results of interoperability tests.

SSL VPN vendors who opted out
The companies that declined participation in our review.

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