How G/On lowers the cost and complexity of secure access
Often the biggest factor limiting how many or how often people can use an application is the cost of securing access. Today the boundaries of organizations are fluid. People want to work from home. They can be more efficient if they could connect from a customer’s office. Or from an airport or a hotel or an Internet café.
This has big implications for the IT department. Now they are expected to protect the network when people are connecting from PCs and other networks over which they have no control, via the public Internet.
To accommodate this demand, most organizations have invested in wide range of security solutions – secure tokens, VPNs, Intrusion Detections Systems (IDSs) and more. The reason for this is that up until now there hasn’t been any one solution capable of addressing all of the risk points.IT departments therefore maintain a complex patchwork of systems simply for securing remote access. This is expensive so they limit the number of people who are allowed access.
And that limits the value of the applications.G/On changes that. Now they only need one solution to address these five challenges. This greatly reduces the cost and complexity of securing access for all types of users.
The value of connectivity
Metcalfe's law (named after the inventor of Ethernet and founder of 3Com, Robert Metcalfe) states the value of a (communications) network is proportional to the square of the number of users on the network. An example is a telephone network. If only two people have a telephone, the value of the network is limited. But every time someone else buys a phone, the value of the network increases exponentially.
The same is true for your corporate network. Letting more people use it more of the time increases its value. G/On helps you achieve this goal by reducing the cost and complexity of securing access to applications.
G/On boosts ROI on business application
Most security solutions are designed to prevent losses. G/On is different. It increases the value of applications by helping you make them accessible to more people more of the time.
Many software applications today are critical for business. For some it’s an ERP or CRM system. For others its just email. Or a legacy mainframe systems, web services or in-house applications.
The availability and the frequency with which these applications are used determine its value (ROI).
If people can only access an application when they are in the office, its value is limited compared to if they can access from home or on the road. And if it streamlines business collaboration to also let external partners access these applications, that would increase its value, too.
Net result?
This is why G/On makes sense. G/On is an “all-in-one” secure access solution. It is unique because it addresses all of the five risk points involved with securing a remote connection to applications.
Simply put, G/On reduces the cost and complexity of making applications available to more people, more of the time - which makes it easier to increase the value of your applications.
