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The turbulent economy and the fiercely competitive business environment calls enterprises to ensure that the business continues come what may. In wake of such call enterprises take towards expansion of business to areas beyond geographies ensuring a large customer base. The enterprises also invest in world-class infrastructure and best of the breed software applications accessible to the large family of employers, customers, vendors and its partners through the wide corporate network. Nevertheless, the access provided for the corporate functioning can also be misused by the fraudsters and miscreants for their malicious activities. Enterprise thus need to ensure ways and means to secure the remote access system. The first step taken by the enterprises towards offering access across the widespread corporate family is a virtual private network (VPN) which extends the intranet and the resources contained in it across the Internet. Establishing a virtual point-to-point connection through encryption or dedicated connections makes it feasible for the host computer to send and receive data across the shared or public networks with all the functionality, security and management policies of the private network. VPN can work with one system connected to a network and also with a site-to-site access wherein two or more networks are connected. Today's globalized business environment empowers their mobile workforce with BYOD strategies which makes use of remote-access connectivity. For their widely distributed offices these enterprises use a site-to-site VPN. Nevertheless, while allowing access into a cohesive network, enterprises need to take adequate measures about the security of the information exchanged and accessed. The enterprises offer security of virtual private networks through SSL VPN protocols which tunnel entire network traffic and also secure an individual connection. Such protocols and encryption would provide confidentiality of the data, sender authentication to prevent unauthorized users and message integrity which will cross check any tampering. Further, the increased adoption of distributed project teams and mobile workforce challenges the enterprises with increase in the accessing capacity of the corporate network through 'Bring Your Own Device’ solutions. Though this ensures disaster readiness protocols the enterprises need to have reliable and secure communications through their corporate network. The remote access of SSL VPN enables the workforce secure access mission-critical data, regardless of location or size of business. Even though such anytime anywhere access overloads the network, the load balancers help ease out the situation. Moreover the SSL VPNs offer enterprise a number of benefits ranging from supporting a mobile workforce by providing employees access to corporate assets irrespective of the location, reduced total cost of ownership, scalability, consistency and security.
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