Remote Access Reviews
Jul 23, 2008
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The Aventail EX-1600 is a high-end SSL VPN designed for the needs of medium to large enterprises.
Jul 16, 2008
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The BiGuard S6000 extends the network to the remote user with features such as Network Extender, Transport Extender, My Network Places and Application Proxy.
Nov 6, 2007
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The SonicWall SSL-VPN 4000 is an appliance-based offering that uses a browser-based client known as NetExtender. The NetExtender client allows all applications to be passed through the SSL-VPN tunnel.
Nov 5, 2007
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F5's appliance uses a browser client that installs and runs in a similar way to an IPSEC client, allowing the user access to the entire network or a subset of it once the client is installed.
Nov 1, 2007
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The Billion Electrical Co. BiGuard S10 is an appliance-based offering. The feature set is extensive and the SSL VPN provides access to many types of common applications, including Microsoft File Shares, Remote Desktop, VNC sessions, FTP, Telnet, SSH, as well as HTTP and HTTPS access to internal sites.
Oct 31, 2007
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The AEP Networks offering is an appliance. The Netilla Security Platform (NSP) offers several choices for authentication of SSL VPN clients, including NT Domain, Active Directory, LDAP, RADIUS, Vasco, Kerberos and local database.
Oct 19, 2007
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Stonesoft offers an appliance for any size network. In this group test we looked at StoneGate SSL-6000 built to support up to 5000 concurrent users. The unit is a 3U rack mountable appliance delivered with three (two redundant) power supplies and is quite heavy.
Oct 16, 2007
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The Array Networks SPX Series Universal Access Controller is an appliance that provides a number of features through a browser-based SSL VPN approach. The SPX allows remote file access through SMB, browsing internal websites, access to internal mail servers and standard TCP-based services.
Oct 9, 2007
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ZyWall SSL-10 is a smaller appliance designed for ten concurrent users. Despite the size of the unit, it offered many of the features the larger units did.
Dec 18, 2006
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Mandriva's Multi Network Firewall 2 uses the open source OpenVPN and takes some of the difficulty out of using this approach. We found that the web interface helps make simple steps of creating users and user certificates, which streamlines the process immensely. We liked the organized web interface and found it easy to use.
Dec 1, 2006
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Setting up this product is not a simple task. Most of the setup is done via the command line, but the documentation does not help guide through this process very well. We found ourselves looking through different guides trying to locate configuration information. The absence of a quickstart card or a getting started guide makes this task even more difficult.
Oct 1, 2006
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Once the interfaces are configured for the network in a quick and easy setup process, the SonicWall appliance is administrated via the web interface. This interface starts with the system dashboard, which shows all system information in a user-friendly layout. The web interface organises all tasks on the left side of the screen in several tabs.
Oct 1, 2006
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Although this product is easy to use, it requires a lot of configuration. The main program is set up on a server via a simple-to-use wizard. Once installed, its interface is organized with a clumsy tree menu to the left and a configuration menu on the right. The menus can be confusing and awkward to work with.
Oct 1, 2006
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We found this product to be simple to set up and use. The initial configuration is done via a serial connection, using the command line. This includes choosing the device's network and name settings. Once the device has an internet provider, it can then be administrated via the web interface. The web GUI is simple and stripped down, consisting of a main tree menu on the left and a display window on the right. The menu is easy to navigate and quite intuitive.
Oct 1, 2006
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Designed for use on the Java platform, Caymas Systems' offering in this category has a web interface called the Launchpad. This is intuitive, easy to navigate and well organised. We had no trouble at all setting up users and creating user access policies. Generally, this appliance boasts the types of features that administrators like. It is easy to set up and maintain and requires little ongoing maintenance once it is in operation.
Oct 1, 2006
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Setup for the Aventail ST2 is simple. You just have to configure the interface through a console connection and you can access the web-based setup wizard. This is easy to follow and guides you through the creation of the administrator account.
Oct 1, 2006
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Check Point's appliance allows for both web- and network-based SSL connections via a web browser. It allows users to access information through its own, customisable web portal. The range of applications users can access include web-based applications and resources, shared files and email. The Connectra also incorporates its own intrusion prevention system, which provides extra security.
Oct 3, 2005
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We were interested to see how the AEP Netilla Security Platform would shape up, following this year's merger of AEP and Netilla.
Oct 3, 2005
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Array’s SPX5000 is a fully-featured appliance, with a superb set of VPN features. But it took some time to establish that, as the setup process was challenging.
It started with a CLI network setup, complete with out-of-date documentation.
Oct 3, 2005
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Aventail has one of the best-organized web management GUIs we have used. A startup wizard got us going via the console port, although there was a brief delay when the documentation left the ‘s’ out of https, leaving us unable to connect.