Aventail bolsters SSL VPN offering

BANGALORE: Keeping in line its campaign to go after the Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) replacement market, Aventail revealed that it has enabled a technological innovation that can strengthen its market position in the Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) space.

The company has developed one unified secure gateway that can provide entry to remote users. Irrespective of whether the remote users use mobile devices, web based access or wired access, they would now just have to interface through a single access gateway.

Speaking exclusively to CyberMedia News, Ajay Kumar, country manager, Aventail India said that this new development would make the company's case for IPSec replacement stronger. “ We are providing a unified protection for all kinds of remote access. Typically a user would have to have three separate gateways.”

Drawing a real-life analogy he said, “ Why would do you want to have three main doors to a house?”

On the issue of whether customers would find the gateway secure, he said that users found management of multiple gateways an issue. “Administrators can set their own security policies to control access for users.” Kumar added that while other vendors also offered network access through PDAs, no other player had come up with a single unified gateway solution.

Aventail Mobile access would support operating systems like Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile, DoCoMo, and Symbian.

In August this year, Aventail relaunched its program to go after the IPSec market in India, that is aimed at replacing VPNs of vendors like Cisco, Juniper and Nortel Networks. Kumar said that Wipro had decided to replace its existing VPNs with Aventail's offerings.