Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "SSL VPN: Array Networks' Array SPX5000"
This article is part of the December 2005 issue of Top forensics tools for tracking down cybercriminals
Array SPX5000 Array Networks Price: Starts at $40,000 @exb Array SPX5000 @exe Array Networks' Array SPX5000 SSL VPN packs enterprise-class security and performance into a beefy appliance that takes up three slots of real estate in the rack. It carries an enterprise price tag, but features numerous security functions and the horsepower to support 64,000 concurrent users and 100,000 SSL sessions. Beyond the SSL VPN features commonly found in competitive products--such as access control, cache cleaning, endpoint security and layer 3 VPN support for IPSec traffic--SPX5000 (we reviewed software v7.3) offers firewall and filtering capabilities. Administrators can create permit/deny rules for TCP, UDP and ICMP packets, and leverage the appliance's passive and active URL filtering. SPX5000 supports 250 VLANs and up to 128 separate secured or shared virtual portals, and is enabled with full or split tunneling to facilitate IPSec. Security managers can delegate administrative rights to individual VLANs and portals. This is a rich but complex feature set. To take full ... Access >>>
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