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Aventail EX-1500 Appliance
"The Aventail EX-1500 will appeal to enterprises that want tremendous flexibility in building their large-scale and complex extended networks. If you intend to support diverse user communities, a wide variety of remote devices, trusted and untrusted access points, and a broad array of applications, then the Aventail SSL Gateway should be on your short list. It's not inexpensive but with the EX-1500 you can implement very sophisticated security policies. This system is not designed for the organization that prefers a pre-integrated solution or has non-complex access requirements."Request Complimentary Evaluation Guide (Qualified Users Only)
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SSL VPN Central Evaluation
We rate products on both how well they meet general enterprise requirements and they stack up against competition. And we provide the data we used so you can determine how well they would fit your security policies and your unique environment.
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Feature Focus
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Primary Evaluation Critera
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Absolute
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Relative
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| Remote Access VPN | Encryption options; strength; situational policies |
Very Good
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Typical
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| Authentication | Integrated 2-factor solutions; compatability with existing directories |
Very Good
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Typical
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| Authorization | Flexibility to implement sophisticated user privilege policies |
Very Good
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Typical
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| Access Methods | Breadth of application support - web & non-web; admin workload |
Excellent
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Strength
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| User Device Support | Access methods supported on various types of remote devices |
Excellent
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Strength
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| Endpoint Security | Gateway features; compatability w/3rd party endpoint security solutions; integration |
Excellent
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Strength
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| Policy Management | Breadth of capabilities; administrative ease-of-use |
Excellent
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Typical
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| Gateway Self-Protection | Ability to withstand direct security attacks on SSL VPN gateway |
Excellent
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Typical
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| Internal Network Protection | Ability to detect and block network level attacks; integrated firewall |
None Provided
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Typical
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| Application-Level Protection | Ability to detect and block application-specific attacks |
None Provided
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Typical
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| Site-to-Site VPN | Encryption strength |
None Provided
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Typical
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| Audit, Analysis and Reports | Security audit data capture and reporting capabilities |
Good
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Typical
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| Service Level Management | Performance monitoring, forecasting and planning tools |
Not Available
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Typical
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| High-Availability | Ability to withstand hardware failures; minimize downtime |
Excellent
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Typical
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| Performance/Scalability | Number of concurrent users; user experience |
No Performance data
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Typical +
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| User Experience | Ease of use: complexity, familiarity, level of automation, online assistance |
Excellent
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Typical +
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| Admin Experience | Ease-of-use defining and implementing security policies |
Excellent
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Typical
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| IT Experience | Ease-of-use integrating into net infrastructure, and operating and maintaining the gateway |
Excellent
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Typical
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| Product Line Breadth | Small, medium and large solutions; simple and complex configurations |
Good
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No entry/small system
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| Price - Point Positioning | Published pricing relative to primary competitors |
Very Good
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Typical
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