Report Date: December 2010 Remote access is a fact of everyday life for IT-enabled employees, with increasing importance for high-speed wireless connections to the Internet. Remote access creates continuous security challenges that must be defended by authentication and encryption, which form the basis of virtual private network (VPN) products and services. The solution space for remote access VPNs includes many protocols, but the most significant are IPsec, a long-used protocol implemented as a Layer 3 tunnel; and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which can be used to establish Layer 7 application sessions, as well as Layer 3 tunnels. Secure Shell (SSH) is occasionally implemented in ways similar to SSL. SSL VPN products now use an updated protocol - Transport Layer Security (TLS) - that provides Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption, but the "SSL" persists as the official label. Gartner ranks vendors in the SSL VPN Magic Quadrant (see Figure 1) based on performance for calendar year 2009 through the end of September 2010, and on client reviews received up to November 2010. The Magic Quadrant considers which vendors will be in frequent use and will influence technology directions through 2015, as well as which vendors are most visible among clients, generate the greatest number of requests for information and contract reviews, and account for the most new and ongoing installations in Gartners client base.
Mentions: Juniper Networks, Cisco, Citrix Systems, F5 Networks, SonicWALL, Array Networks, Microsoft, Check Point Software Technologies, AEP Networks, Sangfor Technologies, PortWise, NeoAccel, AppGate
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