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31st March 2004 -Aventail Corporation (www.aventail.com),
the leading SSL VPN product company, today announced
the unveiling of Aventail Secure Desktop and an enhanced
version of Aventail Cache Control. Aventail’s latest
offerings seamlessly integrate into Aventail’s
award-winning SSL VPN appliance, delivering the most
advanced solution for helping IT manage and protect
anywhere access to critical network resources from airport
kiosks, wireless hot spots, employee-owned PCs, and
PDAs. With Aventail Secure Desktop and Aventail Cache
Control, companies can feel confident about extending
secure remote access from non-corporate-owned equipment
by creating an encrypted virtual desktop environment
and then erasing the data from the system upon termination
of the session.
“While most vendors are only addressing a sliver
of the endpoint control problem, Aventail continues
to take a leadership position in not only defining its
requirements but in delivering a complete solution that
effectively protects corporations from unnecessary security
breaches,” said Zeus Kerravala, vice president,
enterprise infrastructure for The Yankee Group.
“We did an extensive evaluation of all SSL VPN
appliance vendors and chose Aventail because of their
proven reputation for delivering a highly secure remote
access platform,” said Bruno Lambert, IT manager
at Cranium. “The Aventail EX-1500 gives our employees
the freedom of accessing corporate resources from kiosks,
Internet cafes, and their home computers. Aventail’s
new offering will significantly benefit us by ensuring
that our information is secure and our privacy policies
are protected, no matter where our employees access
company information.”
Aventail: Raising the Bar on End Point Control
With the adoption of SSL VPNs, companies can provide
unprecedented access to Web and client/server applications
from any non-corporate-owned device with a Web browser.
However, this level of access is not without risks.
Since Web browsers cache all data on public computers,
end-users unknowingly leave sensitive information such
as passwords, cookies, and documents stored on the computer¾especially
if the user fails to logoff.
While most SSL VPN vendors offer basic cache cleaning
capabilities that remove Web pages, temporary files,
and viewed e-mail attachments, the enhanced version
of Aventail Cache Control takes cleaning to another
level by also removing browser history, cookies, auto-complete
or stored passwords, and temporary or downloaded files
from any Windows, Macintosh, and Linux-supported device¾even
if the user walks away. Also, unlike other solutions,
which inadvertently delete valuable stored information
from a user’s home machine, Aventail Cache Control
only removes the current session’s cached data.
Aventail Secure Desktop provides an even stronger solution
for endpoint security by creating an “encrypted
vault” where all data that is downloaded in a Web
session—attachments, cookies, cached content and
the like—is safely stored. Users see a virtual
workspace with a “padlock” symbol to let them
know that their session is being secured and that they
can browse Web sites or run other applications without
leaving a trail. At the end of their session, their
virtual workspace and encrypted vault are destroyed,
erasing any information that was viewed or saved. To
ensure a best-of-breed SSL VPN data protection product,
Aventail licensed technology from its partner Sygate,
the leader in Enterprise Endpoint Security.
Using the Aventail Management Console (AMC), the centralized
policy management interface for Aventail’s SSL
VPN appliances, configuration and management of Aventail
Secure Desktop and Aventail Cache Control is simple.
IT managers can use AMC to define policies on multiple
parameters, including the duration before an inactivity
timeout is triggered, forcing all browser windows to
close and the data protection agent to run. They can
also allow or prohibit an Aventail Secure Desktop user
from printing files and saving information to a disk
or between sessions.
“Aventail Secure Desktop and Aventail Cache Control
further advance the competitive advantages of our EX-1500
SSL VPN appliance, which offers the industry’s
best solution for securing remote access and protecting
browser-side security,” said Sarah Daniels, vice
president of product management and marketing for Aventail.
“With Aventail, enterprises not only obtain the
SSL VPN with the broadest access capabilities, but also
the best solution for enforcing security policies and
protecting confidential data from risky endpoints.”
Pricing and Availability
Aventail Secure Desktop and Aventail Cache Control will
be available in Q204. Aventail Secure Desktop is an
optional add-on to the Aventailâ EX-1500ä
SSL VPN appliance and pricing starts at $2,200, based
on concurrent sessions. Aventail Cache Control will
be included as a standard feature in the Aventail EX-1500
SSL VPN appliance.
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