AppGate Security Server
The AppGate Security Server can act as the core of the security solution. AppGate Security Server unifies all the necessary security elements such as authentication, authorisation, encryption, access control, client control etc. into one easy-to-manage, comprehensive solution.
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AppGate Case Study
Amazingly, it was remarkably free of hitches for a project of this kind...There were some hiccups during the development stages, for example when we first tried to print a document at the library it materialised miles away at the college! But GSS and AppGate resolved these challenges one by one.
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The AppGate system enables system owners to simultaneously share and protect networked resources in a tightly defined manner.
AppGate unifies all the necessary security elements such as authentication, authorization, encryption, access control, client control, monitoring and reporting into one easy-to-manage, comprehensive solution.
AppGate is truly unique in that sense that it provides one single solution to many security problems. Instead of having to use multiple security systems with poor integration, AppGate does it all in one box and requires no modification of applications or application servers.
All solutions are rack-mountable and occupy only one rack-unit (1U) and the number specifies the relative performance. In environments with extreme demands, all models can also be clustered for redundancy and increased performance.
Highly integrated functionality
Integrated functionality in one easy-to-use solution helps your organization to increase the security of your network by providing functions that is usually provided separatly - or not at all.
All Security Servers include AppGate award winning integrated functionality like:
- Strong encryption of network traffic with support for multiple simultaneous user authentication methods
- Compatible with most third party authentication methods
- Roles and Rights Management. Flexible authorization rules can specify in detail how and under what circumstances individual services should be available.
- Wide client platform support, from Windows and Unix/Linux systems to telephones and PDAs with choice of different client types to suit different types of users.
- Automatic client updates from the Security Server
- Client Check enables the security system to check the client’s configuration before granting access to selected services
- Secure Print. Possibility for remote applications to securely print to locally attached printers.
- Roaming functionality in client offers automatic reconnect to the server if the network link goes down. It can be done without any user interaction with the system and can even handle change of IP addresses. Roaming is transparent to running applications.
- Secure Instant Messaging for authorized users with single sign-on functionality.
- Distributed Personal firewall for Windows clients with central administration through the AppGate Policy Manager.
- Easy to use portal-like user interface. The system requires virtually no user training.
- Customization ToolKit lets administrators customize installation packages as well as the client download web pages and the appearance of the clients themselves in order to simplifies usage for both the administrator and the end-user.
More benefits
The AppGate Security Server can act as the core of the security solution. It controls user access to protected resources and its powerful and flexible authorization database contains rules for what applications and services should be available to each user.
Powerful authorization The powerful authorization system can, for example, state that local users on the corporate LAN may access a service such as a network disk during office hours after providing password authentication, but remote users need to use a smart card for authentication and must have a personal firewall installed for the same service to be available. It is possible to state for each service exactly under what circumstances it should be available.
Remote administration of the system is possible using GUI tools with different administrator roles. Administrators can quickly add or delete users as needed, individually or in groups of users based on their roles, or create automated or scripted updates when needed.
Logs. All user and administrator activities are logged by the system. The logs can be very detailed if necessary, down to every byte being sent and received by an application server. Alarms can be generated and be sent to external systems for immediate action through SNMP, Syslog, email, pagers, etc.
Built in firewall functionality. The server has built-in firewall functionality for complete protection of itself and the application servers behind it.
Clustering for scalability and redundancy. The AppGate Security Server supports server clustering for scalability and redundancy, and the system scales almost linearly: one additional server gives about twice the performance, etc. Clustering makes the system ideally suited to not just give remote users access to internal resources but also for internal users on the corporate intranet.
Easy to implement and maintain
The system is easy to implement and maintain. Application servers need not be modified and traffic can be compressed to increase performance on slower links and reduce communication costs for devices where users are charged for the amount of data being transferred.
Choice of different clients
There are different clients to choose from with different user interfaces targeted for various user audiences: AppGate Full Client, AppGate Connect, the Applet Client and AppGate Mobile Client. All clients are written in Java to be compatible with as many user platforms as possible ranging from large servers to desktop computers, telephones and PDAs.
Included in the client package is the IP Tunneling Module (IPTM), which is an optional component that makes it possible to tunnel all TCP, UDP and ICMP traffic without any limitations. This module may be desirable in some environments, for example when full network access is needed.
All clients supports roaming.
Client Check and Personal firewall
The AppGate Security Server can send customized commands to be executed on the client computer. This client check feature makes it possible to examine and control how a client is configured before granting access to all services. The AppGate Personal firewall is an add-on product for Windows workstations. It has no GUI for end-users and is centrally administered through an AppGate Policy server. The AppGate Security Server can also demand that a specific rule-set is active before certain services become available to the user. For more information about the personal firewall, please see Distributed Personal firewall.
Easy for administrators
Authorized administrators can quickly add or delete users as needed, individually in groups of users (roles) that share the same access permissions, or in massive updates to accommodate mergers and other organizational shifts. All user and administrator activity is logged and reported.
