Cisco IPSec VPN
Cisco IOS IPsec functionality provides network data encryption at the IP packet level, offering a robust, standards-based, security solution. IPsec provides data authentication and anti-replay services, in addition to data confidentiality services. It is the only way to implement secure VPNs.
Customers can combine IPsec with other Cisco IOS Software functionality to build scalable, robust, and secure Quality of Service-aware VPNs.
The Cisco® VPN 3000 Series offers best-in-class remote-access VPN devices that provide businesses with unprecedented cost savings through flexible, reliable, and high-performance remote-access solutions. The Cisco VPN 3000 Series offers solutions for the most diverse remote-access deployments by offering both IP Security (IPSec) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-based VPN connectivity on a single platform.
New features in Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator Software v4.7 deliver extensive application access, best-in-market endpoint security, data integrity protection, leading infrastructure access, and network compliance validation controls. Benefits of the Cisco VPN 3000 Series include:
- Advanced endpoint security-A primary component of Cisco WebVPN v4.7 is the Cisco Secure Desktop, which offers preconnection security posture assessment and a consistent and reliable means of eliminating all traces of sensitive data
- Broad application support for SSL VPN-The Cisco VPN 3000 Series Concentrator platform offers extensive application support through its dynamically downloaded SSL VPN client for WebVPN, enabling network-layer connectivity to virtually any application
- Posture Assessment, Policy Enforcement, and Remediation-IPSec-enabled Network Admission Control (NAC), is an industry initiative led by Cisco Systems that uses the network infrastructure to enforce security policy compliance on all devices seeking to access network computing resources. NAC features can be used in IPSec VPN deployments with the Cisco VPN Client
- Ease of deployment with zero-touch remote endpoint management-Integrated Web-based management on Cisco VPN 3000 Series concentrators provides a simple interface to configure and monitor all remote-access users, providing ease of manageability across both IPSec and SSL VPN environments
Cisco VPN Client software is provided with all of the Cisco VPN 3000 Series models, and includes unlimited distribution licensing. Cisco WebVPN is also provided with no additional licensing fees, and enables full network access to virtually any application.
Cisco VPN 3000 Series concentrators are available in both nonredundant and redundant configurations, allowing customers to build the most robust, reliable, and cost-effective networks possible.
