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	AppGate Quadrants

	AppGate Functionality
·		Full Application Support
·		Access on a need to know basis
·		Policy Enforcement
·		Automated User Support
·		Device Control
·		Scalability
·		Secure Single Sign On
·		Mobile VPN Roaming
·		Secure Print
·		Future Proof
·		Customized User Experience
·		Instant Messaging

	Secure Flexibility

	Customer Benefits

	Market Verticals

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Today many people believe that all VPN:s system are more or less the same in terms of functionality and security. Many times they get dissapointed when it turns out that the VPN do not support all application protocolls,autentication systems and client operating systems.

It is also often forgotten that the solution should be able to support administrational and organisational changes.

AppGate VPN is an Hybrid VPN based on SSH/SSL technology that:

Supports all application protocols not only web based.
Supports terminal server solutions.
The user uses the real application interface without modification.
Do not have any NAT problems.

The difference between AppGate VPN and other VPN systems
	IPSec	SSL	AppGate VPN
Client software	Full software install required	Applet or user installed application	Applet or user installed application
Software operation	Network level	Application level	Application level
Tunnels	Encrypts multiple TCP connections	Encrypts one TCP connections	Encrypts multiple TCP connections
Encryption	Not defined -DES/3DES	Limited range defined (40 bit upwards)	Not defined -3DES/AES/ Blowfish/ ArcFour
User authen- tication	Not required - custom add-on	Not required - custom add-on	Required - custom add-on
Application access	Full application access	Limited application access -web based	Full and/but rights managed application access
Network traversal issues	Difficulty with Firewalls, APNs, NAT etc	none	none
Works with all application protocols	YES	NO	YES

The government agency was divided into separate departments each maintaining their own infrastructure using their own systems for salaries, financial systems, email systems. A major challenge in the setup was the large amount of different “non-standard” application protocols.

In order to lower cost and enhance security the government agency wanted to centralize the applications servers at fewer locations without limiting usability and without changing who could access what. Protection of resources from unauthorized access was as essential as giving authorized users access to selected information. Today the AppGate system supports more than 25.000 users for the government agency. An added feature was that the AppGate system provided the agency with a mechanism for internal billing using the system logs.

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