Novell Access Manager
Grant Secure Access to Apps, No Matter Where They Are
Give users the same experience with apps, whether they are inside or outside the firewall. With SSL VPN, Access Manager allows you to provide your mobile workers with a secure tunnel between, say, their hotel room and the server-based (not web-based) app they're accessing. This means they only have to learn one method of doing their job, whether they're sitting at their desk or not.
Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) provides secure access to non HTTP-based applications. The SSL VPN supports client-integrity checking to ensure that required corporate software—such as firewalls and virus scanners—is enabled before access is granted.
How it Works
To use SSL VPN, you define the resources a user can access, typically by specifying an IP address and port ranges. You also define authorization policies by mapping specific roles, as generated by the Identity Server, to specific authorization policies. By applying these policies, Novell Access Manager determines which users are authorized to access backend applications over SSL VPN.
Once the user authenticates, the SSL VPN client service delivers an ActiveX plug-in or Java applet then verifies the existence of required software, such as firewall and virus-scanning software. The same plug-in or applet establishes an encrypted connection and allows access to authorized enterprise applications. To ensure confidentiality, a desktop cleanup feature deletes documents accessed during the SSL VPN session.