Best suited to provide easy access to trusted employees. Summary of Clear Choice Test of F5 Networks’ FirePass 4140.Data sheet for F5 Networks’ FirePass 4140Starting price: $24,990 Overall score: 4.0 With its acquisition of uRoam in July 2003, F5 jumped into the SSL VPN market with both feet. Since then, the product has always been colored by uRoam’s original interest: easy remote access. Competing against security-oriented companies such as Cisco, Check Point and Juniper, the F5 team has focused more on accessibility and easy access than tight controls.The FirePass 4140 is all about giving access. It’s not about fine-grained access controls. This makes it perfect for many environments, especially remote-access ones where end users are fully or partially trusted (such as employee remote access). However, the FirePass doesn’t fit well where a lot of very tight controls on access are needed (see policy testing results).F5’s remote access and accessibility orientation are clear throughout FirePass. F5 was the first to pay attention to the appearance and function of the end-user Web portal (see portal testing results), a valuable sales tool, as many SSL VPN products treat the Web portal as an afterthought. F5 has also reached out to encourage cross-platform compatibility, with Mac support and special handling for small-screen devices such as PDAs and mobile phones. The FirePass is designed to ease and simplify the process of providing secure remote access to corporate networks. F5’s end point security policy creation GUI is a perfect example: easy to use, fairly powerful and visually yards ahead of everyone else. Is it the most powerful end-point security system? Not at all. But F5’s end-point security is the easiest to use and manage, and that counts for a lot (see results of end-point security tests). Check Point | Next summary: Fortinet > Related content feature 5 ways to boost server efficiency Right-sizing workloads, upgrading to newer servers, and managing power consumption can help enterprises reach their data center sustainability goals. By Maria Korolov Dec 04, 2023 9 mins Green IT Servers Data Center news Omdia: AI boosts server spending but unit sales still plunge A rush to build AI capacity using expensive coprocessors is jacking up the prices of servers, says research firm Omdia. By Andy Patrizio Dec 04, 2023 4 mins CPUs and Processors Generative AI Data Center feature What is Ethernet? History, evolution and roadmap The Ethernet protocol connects LANs, WANs, Internet, cloud, IoT devices, Wi-Fi systems into one seamless global communications network. By John Breeden Dec 04, 2023 11 mins Networking news IBM unveils Heron quantum processor and new modular quantum computer IBM also shared its 10-year quantum computing roadmap, which prioritizes improvements in gate operations and error-correction capabilities. By Michael Cooney Dec 04, 2023 5 mins CPUs and Processors High-Performance Computing Data Center Podcasts Videos Resources Events NEWSLETTERS Newsletter Promo Module Test Description for newsletter promo module. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe