For IT Security Managers
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Security starts with simplicity! So start by simplifying your infrastructure.
G/On is a complete end-to-end secure remote access solution that handles authentication, connectivity and security in one single product. G/On is built upon Giritech’s proprietary, patented, and FIPS validated communication protocol, EMCADS, that has the functionality needed for end to end connectivity from a user to an application.
G/On does not connect the remote PC to the network. Consequently, you avoid most of the issues you normally face when you make remote connections. This fact - together with other built-in security features - makes G/On one of the most secure application access solutions available in the industry.
If you offer remote access today using a VPN, you also use a number of different products to address each of the different connectivity and security issues. G/On can potentially help you avoid these costs:
- Laptop for every person
- Authentication tokens (like RSA) and related server
- Certificates and certificate server
- VPN clients and concentrator
- Device scanning tools & client filtering
- DMZ infrastructure with additional firewalls, routers and switches
- Intrusion detection
G/On handles the 5 challenges of secure application access
G/On makes the above components for the most part redundant by effectively solving the five challenges of secure remote access:
1. Authenticate the user.
- G/On features both 2-factor user authentication and mutual client/server authentication to prevent phishing.
2. Secure the device (PC).
- G/On includes features that greatly avoid the risks to your network posed by spyware and viruses, enabling you to safely access applications from virtually any PC.
3. Protect the data.
- G/On encrypts all data using 256-bits AES. Checksums are used to prevent man-in-the-middle, relay and spoofing attacks.
4. Control network access.
- The G/On Server only responds to legitimate G/On clients that know its unique shared secret. All G/On traffic enters via just one port on your firewall.
5. Manage resource availability.
- Users can only see and use the applications they´re authorized to access. The G/On Server lets you manage and audit every aspect of every connection.
With a simple “One PC, One G/On” for each employee you have accommodated management’s desire to make it possible for employees to do their job at all times from all places. Without compromising security!
Use your wireless network internally
Wireless networks are becoming more and more popular as a convenient way to get access to the Internet. For security reasons, you should never have a wireless network that gives access to your internal infrastructure. Consequently, although many companies have invested in wireless networks, they should not allow their employees to use it for access to their company network.
However, G/On is designed and built to give secure access to company applications over any network, including wireless. With G/On, employees with laptops, for instance, can enjoy the flexibility and freedom to access their applications from the wireless network inside their company whether the wireless gives Internet access or if it is just a separate internal network. So, if your company has a wireless network for Internet access for visitors and guests, your employees can also use that to get access to their applications via G/On. Users find it extremely convenient as they continue using G/On the same way regardless of what network they happen to be connected to.
Ultimately, you don’t need anything but a wireless network when all your employees connect through G/On whether they are on company premises or away! And, that wireless network is simply connecting to the Internet. In that case, there is really no need to have your own local area network. Is there?
The ultimate lean network infrastructure.
One exciting way of dramatically minimizing network infrastructure costs, while maintaining extreme high flexibility, mobility and end user satisfaction is the deployment of G/On over mobile carrier networks. In this scenario, users with laptops and mobile network modems (either built in or in dongles), connect from anywhere, at any time to their applications through the G/On desktop client.
In this scenario:
- You need NO network infrastructure outside your server room
- Your users can use applications as if they were sitting on a local area network
- You have the highest security available
- You can (depending on mobile carrier costs – that have become very low lately) dramatically decrease your costs of the overall IT-Infrastructure
External contractors? – No Problem!
The use of external contractors is growing rapidly as organizations are trying to save cost by outsourcing operations to external contractors or companies with large scale specializations. Such an outsourcing process almost always involves the issue of opening up key IT applications to external people. This is often a long, complex, and very costly process requiring expensive build out of existing IT infra structures. In some cases, you most provide dedicated PC equipment for each external contractor. In other cases, you must require the external contractors to establish an isolated and controlled network that is VPN connected to your company.
With G/On, the remote PC does not become part of your network. Rather, you enable applications, even legacy client server applications, on a G/On USB key – and give external contractors access to the application they need – without letting them in on your network.
So G/On is the ideal solution when you are outsourcing your operations to external contractors or companies. With G/On, you define exactly which applications a person or groups of people have access to. And, it is done in a matter of hours. With G/On, there is no need to buy PCs for the external contractors. They simply use the PCs they already have. And the contractors are happy as well as they don’t need to take care of yet another PC. Give them a G/On USB key and get going!
Are your users really able to work?
- Do you have a satisfied user community? Are they able to work effectively from remote locations or from home?
- How many resources are you using to keep the remote solution running and users happy?
- Will you even be able to scale remote access to your entire organization with your current staff?
With G/On, your users will have access from any PC to their office PC and the company intranet. And this will be accomplished through a single sign on with complete accountability (One User – One USB key). From any remote location, while they are travelling or working from home, G/On will be bringing users to their data – rather than data to the users.
Are you able to manage IT security policies?
Do you have a good understanding of the security profile of your current configuration? Are the products up to date? Are they compatible with each other? Who has the complete overview of the firewall configurations? Who manages your VPNs and how are they configured? How often do people get full VPN access to solve a problem while they really weren’t supposed to have VPN access? Have you thought about the fact that every time a new VPN access is added it increases the overall vulnerability of your network?
Introduce G/On now and you have taken the first step toward a simpler infrastructure in the future. We believe you will quickly find G/On so much simpler to manage that soon you will move your entire user base onto G/On.
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Introduce G/On now and you have taken the first step toward a simpler - and thus safer - infrastructure in the future.