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SSL VPN Security Solutions

Scale and optimize for an increasingly mobile workforce

IT organizations are struggling to keep up with the need to provide an increasing number of users with secure access to corporate resources. Employees, contractors, partners, suppliers, and customers are using a variety of devices from many different locations—including remote VPN, internal LAN, and both public and internal wireless. SSL and client-based access solutions simplify the control and end-to-end data protection you need when offering network and application access.

F5's access solutions bring SSL VPN remote access security, application acceleration, and optimization services together to provide a high-performance, flexible security platform on a single appliance. Using secure VPN for encrypted traffic, F5 solutions provide policy-based, secure, and accelerated access to enterprise applications for any user, over any device or network.

Why do I need SSL VPN security?

Business benefits of using F5 for SSL VPN security include:

  • Superior scalability for the growing mobile and remote workforce.
    A next-generation access gateway at the edge of the network supports access for a much greater number of remote users than other access solutions.
  • Improved manageability and security with unified access.
    F5 delivers access control, endpoint security, authentication, and authorization services on a single, easy-to-manage, and optimized network device.
  • Increased user productivity through automatic access.
    Users get a seamless transition between locations through a client that provides cutting-edge roaming, domain detection, and automatic connection.
  • Accelerated applications and optimized performance.
    Users gain faster access to applications with acceleration at LAN speeds.
  • Strong endpoint security.
    F5 validates client security postures to protect your organization from accidental data loss.

How do I implement SSL VPN security?

With F5, you can easily configure SSL VPN security on a very granular level. One of the highlights is the Visual Policy Editor that makes complex security enforcement painless and flexible through an easy-to-use graphical user interface. F5's application- and technology-specific deployment guides take the guesswork out of implementation, with step-by-step configuration instructions that save valuable time and resources.

Resources

DevCentral Community

F5 Devcentral, is our community driven site that helps customers and partners maximize the effectiveness of F5 technologies & solutions.

F5 Knowledge Base

The AskF5 Knowledge Base has product manuals, security advisories, and release notes on F5 products.

What F5 offerings do I need for an SSL VPN security solution?

F5's BIG-IP® Edge Gateway appliance delivers outstanding performance, scalability, availability, ease-of-use, and endpoint security, to keep corporate data secure while ensuring high productivity for those working from home or on the road.

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F5 Technology Demo

This animated demo shows the F5 application delivery networking technologies working in different scenarios.

FirePass Overview Demo

This in-depth Flash demo gives a video introduction, overview, and next steps for using FirePass SSL VPN.

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