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) is a Linux-based remote-access security technology that provides secure access to non HTTP-based applications. This service shares session information with Access Gateway, enabling single sign-on and extending role-based authorization to back-end applications. The SSLVPN 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.
To permit remote single-sign on, you can configure SSL VPN as a protected service behind Access Gateway. Access Gateway redirects user authentication requests to Identity Server, just as it would to protect a Web application. Once the user authenticates and roles are generated, Access Gateway uses single sign-on to access the SSL VPN client delivery service. 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.