Juniper Networks SA Series SSL VPN appliances

The world’s IT leaders choose Juniper Networks® SA Series SSL VPN Appliances more often because of the affordable, full featured flexibility that these solutions provide. The product family includes models sized to meet the needs of small businesses with limited IT experience, all the way up to high capacity products for large enterprises and service providers requiring the utmost authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) capabilities for employee, partner (extranet), and customer access.

All models use SSL transport, the secure access protocol built into every standard Web browser. SSL sessions enable any web-enabled device such as a corporate laptop, PDA, smartphone, or kiosk to securely access an organization’s resources without the cost and complexity of installing, configuring, and maintaining any client software on the user device. The temporary VPN connections that SSL browsers establish also eliminate the firewall and network address translation (NAT) issues of traditional IPsec VPN products.

The SA Series includes Juniper Networks Junos® Pulse, a dynamic, integrated, multiservice network client for mobile and nonmobile devices. Junos Pulse enables optimized, accelerated, “anytime anywhere” access to corporate data. Pulse enables secure SSL access from a wide range of mobile and nonmobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks, notebooks, Wi-Fi, and 3G-enabled devices. Junos Pulse provides enterprises with improved productivity and secure ubiquitous access to corporate data and applications, anytime and from any location.

While almost any endpoint device is capable of accessing resources via SSL VPN, the SA Series SSL VPN Appliances can be set to enforce a number of preconditions when necessary. For example, even before a login is allowed, the SA Series appliance can be set to check the requesting device’s network and device settings. This can include scanning for malware such as keystroke loggers, and verifying operation of endpoint security software such as antivirus applications and personal firewalls. The requestor’s IP address, browser type, and digital certificates can also be examined before login is allowed, and the results can be used to grant or deny access based on corporate security policies.

The SA Series provides security for all enterprise tasks with options for increasingly stringent levels of access control to protect the most sensitive applications and data.

Security, Performance, Reliability, and Management

Juniper Networks products provide best-in-class security, performance, reliability, and ease of management. These hardware accelerated platforms are performance leaders in every class, with cluster options for high availability and scalability. They feature a user interface that guides administrators to implement sweeping yet granular control over the users and groups authorized to access multiple levels of protected assets.

Appliances with Capacities and Capabilities for Every Organization

SA Series SSL VPN Appliances span a wide range of appliances that provide small, midsize, and large enterprises, as well as service providers, with remote access plus sophisticated partner and customer extranet features. These products enable organizations to deploy differentiated access to resources based on user roles and groups. They are available with a baseline software feature set or an advanced feature set that includes options for more complex deployments.