BorderGuard™ Enables Secure Teleworking
With today’s increasing concerns of terrorism, pandemics, thefts of confidential data, and rising fuel costs, telework programs are justifiably generating both interest and apprehension within government and commercial organizations.
Although the benefits of teleworking are clear—continuity of operations, improved work-life balance, reduced traffic congestion and pollution, and improved organizational performance—without proper security measures in place, anytime/anywhere access introduces numerous risks to your organization. IT cannot control the end user’s environment, thereby leaving the enterprise open to improper system or networking settings, and lack of the latest operating system or security updates. Unsafe user behavior can leave sensitive corporate information easily accessible to outsiders, allow viruses to be inadvertently transmitted from an infected end-user device to other computers on your network, and leave the door open for malicious hackers to launch a full-fledged attack against your company in attempt to hijack your resources or sabotage your operations and reputation.
In short, the same wireless networks and always-on broadband access that help increase productivity can also compromise the security of your network. As a result, a well-developed continuity of operations plan must include telecommuting provisions that are rapidly deployed, highly secure, and aligned with your organization’s needs.
BorderGuard is Designed for Secure, Anytime/Anywhere Access.
As the need for teleworking becomes more critical, unparalleled security and optimization are critical to ensuring the continued quality of your user experience and invulnerability of your corporate network. BorderGuard technology helps make that possible by reducing network risks including eavesdropping, unauthorized altering of data, and unauthorized access to restricted network resources.
By deploying BorderGuard to secure your network, you also circumvent other security challenges inherent in teleworking. Besides protecting your proprietary data and communications from theft or corruption, you also eliminate the chances of system slowdowns and unavailability due to a compromised network. Compromised networks require significant audit, cleanup and restore efforts and costs. If customer data is impacted, risks and costs can become astronomically high, especially in cases of corporate liability and damaged brand equity.
Deploying BorderGuard Enables Risk-Free Teleworking.
BorderGuard makes your data communications invulnerable to attacks, no matter where your users are working. In fact, Blue Ridge Networks™ VPN appliance and managed services offer the industry’s strongest security benefits, including:
- Impenetrable Security. Blue Ridge Networks proprietary technology, Security-Enhanced Internet Key Exchange, or SE-IKE™, is immune to all reported vulnerabilities in IKEv1 solutions, as well as all other theoretical active and passive attacks. SE-IKE encrypts tunnel handshake messages with a mandatory, mutual public key authentication process to make BorderGuard security immune to all known attacks.
- Impenetrable Laptops. Tunnel-Lock technology effectively locks out hacker access to a laptop, extending your high-security anti-spyware, anti-virus, intrusion prevention systems, anti-spam, and content filtering to remote users, providing a single point for enterprise security policy management and preventing malware infestation and hacker attacks on your company computer.
- Real-Time Surgical User Disconnect. By selectively identifying the tunnel associated with a particular user, BorderGuard technology can surgically disconnect a single user who is operating on the network—without affecting other connected users.
- PKI-Readiness. BorderGuard includes built-in digital certificates for the strongest form of authentication, or leverages your existing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) including X.509 certificate authorities as well as OCSP and CRL checking. In addition, BorderGuard is the only DoD PKI secure remote access solution that automatically integrates with Active Directory.
- Seamless Wireless Roaming. As the first practical wireless VPN solution, BorderGuard ensures the same level of security available for wired networks. With our “always on” feature, you can change wireless networks on the fly without logging back into your network.
- Extensive Scalability. Quickly and easily add thousands of remote users to the network or integrate secure VoIP, video conferencing, or any other Ethernet-enabled device.
- Cost Savings. Because of Layer 2 tunneling, BorderGuard inherently supports twice as many users as other solutions.
- Proven Invulnerability. BorderGuard technology features a track record of more than 11 years of worldwide deployment without a single reported vulnerability.
BorderGuard: The Clear Choice for Secure Teleworking.
When you add BorderGuard technology to your network in support of your teleworking initiatives, you are deploying the gold standard solution for secure and assured remote access, featuring:
- Unlimited Freedom. Communicate anytime, anywhere, over any network.
- Impenetrable Security. No reported vulnerabilities—ever—and immune to all known attacks.
- Ease of Use. BorderGuard is easy to install, easy to manage, and easy for employees of all IT skill sets to use.
- “Customer First” Support. Blue Ridge Networks can get you up and running in a week, offers 24x7x365 customer support for managed service customers, and can add new users in a matter of hours.
- Regulatory Compliance. Blue Ridge Networks meets government and private sector requirements including DoD PKI, HSPD-12, PCI, FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria, and HIPAA.
About Blue Ridge Networks
Blue Ridge Networks develops impenetrable remote access solutions for wireless and wired environments. The BorderGuard product suite is one of the most stringently tested and validated solutions in the world, earning multiple certifications. Over its 11 year history, BorderGuard remains the only secure remote access solution to have no reported vulnerabilities.
For a more in-depth technical discussion of the strength of the Blue Ridge Networks BorderGuard, or to test out the system in your own network, contact one of our secure communications experts at info@blueridgenetworks.com or 800/722.1168.
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