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BANGALORE
APRIL 12, 2007
Over 600 American IT decision-makers feel that that secure remote access
usage will continue to increase rapidly over the next 12 months. This was one of
the findings of a survey by SSL VPN vendor Aventail. The key drivers of this
trend include the increased usage of mobile devices and wireless LANs, more
robust disaster recovery planning, and the overriding need for users to be both
productive and secure in each of these use cases. Security continues to be the
primary challenge facing IT organizations, with the increasing use of mobile
devices a close second. Enterprises will also continue to expand secure remote
access usage in the more traditional use cases of teleworkers and home computer
users.
Survey respondents rated “security” as the top criteria in making a
purchasing decision for their new secure remote access solutions, with “easy
to use” and “easy to install and manage” also extremely important.
Survey participants were managers or senior executives in IT, networking,
and/or security departments, and came from organizations that were researching
SSL VPNs. Organizations were of all sizes, with over half having more than
thousand employees. Additionally, most organizations already had significant
experience with secure remote access solutions, with more than 50 percent of
them already supporting at least some remote access for teleworkers, traveling
employees, home computer users, wireless LAN users, and mobile device users.
In searching for the right secure remote access solution, IT managers rely on
experts, as well as doing their own research from a variety of sources.
"This survey confirms the need for advanced secure remote access solutions
based on today's IT manager's use cases,” said Sarah Daniels, VP,
marketing, Aventail Corporation. “With today's distributed workforce, now
more than ever, network IT managers need to be assured that their employees have
anytime, anywhere secure remote access--whether it be from a home office, on the
road, a wireless LAN, or from a mobile device.” Page(s) 1
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