August 2003 - Tunnel Visions ... How do SSL VPNs match up with their older IPSec cousins?
Good grief. I suspected as much, but this article finally confirms it. SSL "VPN"s, are in fact, not VPNs at all. Instead, they are targeted towards encrypting/protecting applications at a time. Obviously "intranet" sites (including webmail) are ideally suited for this (because it become a glorified proxy), but apparently, they can also give you access to Terminal Services (or Citrix, or whatever) sessions, etc. via an applet.
It just doesn't seem like it's so much a "solution" as a bunch of thrown together whatnot.
Still, for allowing remote users to get to intranet sites, or their shared or user drives on the fileserver, it's not really that bad.
thanks you
Posted by: larry at October 9, 2003 01:41 AM