Secure Remote Access enables mobile employees, home workers, extranet partners, customers and other authorized users to access business critical applications and resources – thereby increasing productivity. Secure remote access is also an ideal business continuity solution with which to prepare for emergencies, where employees can't make it into the office.

With an increasingly mobile workforce, and more users using more applications across a broader mix of devices, it is important to select a secure remote access solution that fully addresses several key considerations:

  • Users will not always own or have access to corporate managed devices, and as such, must be able to securely access from any Web-enabled device. A secure remote access solution must ensure that, regardless of the end-point, security is assured and business critical resources are not jeopardized.

  • Some applications are Web-enabled, others aren’t. Some users can be trusted with full network connectivity, others can’t. Today’s secure remote access solutions must be able to support any mix of Web, native, and thin client applications as well as provide for both layer three and layer seven access. 

  • Legacy IPSec solutions require client software and introduce significant IT administrative overhead; in addition, IPSec provides only encryption and has no provisions for enforcing access control policies. An ideal secure remote access solution will fully address these shortcomings.

  • Time is money. Everyone knows applications run fast in the office; applications extended over the WAN are a different story. Secure remote access solutions that introduce zero latency, include application acceleration technologies, and have the capacity to support a large number of users, will go a long way towards satisfying business objectives and user demands.

Array Networks addresses these considerations with an SSL VPN secure remote access solution that provides an industry-leading mix of ease-of-use, ease-of-deployment, performance and scalability, multi-layer security, and broad application and device support.


How It Works


  1. Browser-based access. Remote access is possible regardless of the user’s location or access device; all that is needed is a common Web browser. Users enter their credentials at a designated URL, and gain access to a fully secure user interface. Host checking ensures end-point has required anti-virus software and checks to ensure the end-point does not pose a threat. Secure desktop can ensure no information may be saved or printed from remote location. Cache cleaning ensures no temporary or cached files are accidentally left behind on remote device. Authentication, authorization, and auditing, with optional two-factor authentication, ensures the right users have access to the right resources, and produces an activities audit trail as needed for compliance.

  2. Integration with existing firewalls and network infrastructure is seamless. SSL VPN is transparent and requires no changes to these devices.

  3. The Array SSL VPN terminates connections, decrypts and inspects traffic, and establishes a new connection to back-end servers – ensuring malicious connections are never established directly with business critical resources.

  4. Users have access through a fully customizable portal interface to corporate Intranets, file shares, email, and applications as authorized. Any mix of Web, native, and thin client applications may be published to the end user; in addition, similar to IPSec, full layer three network connectivity may also be established.