Frost & Sullivan's Whitepaper Analyzes Challenges Involved in Enabling Secure Remote Access

In a recently published whitepaper entitled “Next Generation Network Access Technology:  Overcoming Business Challenges” Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert) analyzes the practical challenges of a modern enterprise in making remote access secure and proposes a flexible and cost effective solution.

Modern enterprises today adopt two widely used methods of securing remote accesses, IPSec and SSL, mainly driven by the changing user habits. Such an approach brings complexity and additional operational costs because current IPSec and SSL solutions are adjusted to purpose, according to Frost & Sullivan.  Furthermore, enterprises do not enjoy the optimal benefits from either of the approaches.

“Very often, as businesses engage with more stakeholders such as customers, partners and suppliers, the importance of secure remote access becomes a top priority for a CIO,” says Yiru Zhong, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “Without the ability to manage changing patterns of remote access by a growing number of users, mundane IT tasks quickly become unmanageable, at the cost of additional IT resources and operating expenses.”

The whitepaper identifies the business challenges a modern enterprise faces in a modern and interconnected society.  It also details both IPSec and SSL approaches to highlight that these methods achieve the same outcome of securing remote connectivity.  Additionally, the whitepaper documents the practical challenges of enabling secure remote accesses and lists enterprises' current requirements from such solutions.  

The whitepaper, sponsored by NCP Engineering, asserts that the complexity and the resultant cost of enabling secure remote access through IPSec and SSL increase in a non-linear manner.

NCP offers a solution to address enterprises' practical needs for simplified, flexible and cost effective remote access approaches.  For enterprises with more than 2000 mobile employees, NCP's solutions provide a Total Cost of Ownership savings of 40 percent over other vendors by virtue of reducing on-going maintenance and management tasks, the company claims.

Established in 1986, NCP specializes in remote access software development. In June, the company announced the latest version of its hybrid IPsec / SSL VPN gateway. The version 8.05 of NCP Secure Enterprise Server supports SSL VPN connections for popular smartphone and tablet PC operating systems such as Apple iOS, Google Android (News - Alert), Microsoft Windows Phone 7, and version 6 and up of RIM BlackBerry.