BorderManager 3.8: Secure Connection to the Internet

Novell BorderManager 3.8 includes premier firewall and VPN technologies that safeguard your network and help you build a secure identity management solution. With the powerful directory-integrated features in Novell BorderManager, you can monitor users' Internet activities and control their remote access to corporate resources.Moreover, Novell BorderManager provides Internet access control and supports numerous content-filtering solutions. These features protect your network from undesirable Internet content, including programs that destroy or steal data, games that waste users' time, and Web pages that expose your company to legal liability.

Packet Filtering: This provides Network-layer security to control the types of information sent between networks and hosts. Novell BorderManager 3.8 supports Routing Information Protocol (RIP) filters and packet forwarding filters to control the service and route information for the common protocol suites, including Internetwork Packet Exchange^TM (IPX^TM) software and TCP/IP.

Proxy Services: This uses caching to accelerate Internet performance and optimize WAN bandwidth use. Proxy Services also allows protocol filtering and improves security by hiding private network domain names and addresses and sending all requests through a single gateway.

Access Control: This is the process by which user access to Internet and intranet services is regulated and monitored. Specifically, the BorderManager access control software allows or denies access requests made through the Novell IP Gateway or Proxy Services.

Novell IP Gateway: The Novell IP Gateway, which consists of two circuit-level gateways (the IPX/IP gateway and the IP/IP gateway), enables Windows IPX and IP clients on your local network to access the Internet without requiring you to assign globally unique IP addresses to each local system. The Novell IP Gateway also supports SOCKS clients. In addition, the Novell IP Gateway enables you to hide the IP addresses of your local network from the Internet and implement access control for local clients.

Network Address Translation (NAT): Like the Novell IP Gateway, NAT allows IP clients on your local network to access the Internet without requiring you to assign globally unique IP addresses to each system. In addition, NAT acts as a filter, allowing only certain outbound connections and guaranteeing that inbound connections cannot be initiated from the public network.

Virtual Private Network (VPN): This is used to transfer sensitive information across the Internet in a secure fashion by encapsulating and encrypting the data. A VPN can also be deployed in intranets where data security is required between departments.

Novell BorderManager 3.8 Alert: This monitors server performance and security, and reports potential or existing server problems that affect the performance of configured Novell BorderManager 3.8 services.

Novell BorderManager 3.8 Authentication Services: This enables remote users to dial in to NetWare networks and access network information and resources. These services maintain security by requiring users to authenticate using the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol.