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Juniper Networks Secure Access 4500

The Juniper Networks Secure Access 4500 (SA 4500) is designed for medium to large sized businesses who are able to utilise the cost effective remote and extranet access from any standard web browser. Evolving around the award-winning IVE platform, the SA 4500 appliances provide rich access-privilege management functionality which has the capabilities to create secure customer/partner extranets, without any infrastructure changes, no DMZ deployments and no software agents.

The SA 4500 comes with great functionality which allows the enterprise to have secure access to the corporate intranet. This enables the different employee and visitor population to utilise exactly the resources they require while adhering to enterprise security policies. Built-in-traffic types speeds performance and the SSL acceleration is available via a hardware module option which is for more demanding environments.

Features & Benefits of SA 4500

Enhanced Security

Access-privilege management for powerful,
flexible authentication and authorization policies with no software deployments
Three different secure access methods to let enterprises provision by purpose
Granular resource-based authorization
Fine-grained auditing and loggingIdentity-driven access specified by user group and role, as well as by network, device and session attributes
Endpoint client, device, data and server security controls security

Lower total cost of ownership

No client-software deployments or changes to servers, and virtually no ongoing maintenance
Secure extranet access with no DMZ build-out, server handling, resource duplication or incremental deployments to add applications or users

High Performance, Scalable and Manageable

Central management option for unified administration
Self-service features for enhanced user productivity and lower administrative overhead
Role-based delegation of administrative task
Cluster pair deployment option for high availability across the LAN and the WAN

SA 4500 Options

The Juniper Secure Access range offers a wide range of services which include:

Secure meeting – allows organisations to set up secure online meetings and user-to-user collaboration. This is a cost-effective, easy to use web conferencing tool which requires no software and allows virtual teams to share applications in real time. Secure Meeting is a fully flexible cross-enterprise infrastructure which doesn’t rely on any operating system, provides high level of security with Microsoft OutlookTM invitation capabilities
Advanced Endpoint Defence: Malware Protection (for additional users) – each appliance comes with Integrated malware protection for specific number of users with the capability to expand for additional users. Organisations are able to dynamically deliver malware protection to endpoints, targeting and disabling threats such as Trojan Horses, Key Loggers, Remote controls and monitoring applications.
Clustering - Secure Access offers clustering for high availability to multiply aggregate throughput for unexpected bursts in traffic and mitigating resource-intensive application use, as well as providing stateful failover capabilities from one appliance to another.
SSL Acceleration – This hardware acceleration module increases performance by offloading intensive encrypt/decrypt processes to the CPU
ICE (In Case of Emergency) – Remote access capabilities can really be stretetched in the event of a disaster due to more employees, partners and customers suddenly creating a burst of demand. ICE is able to deliver during those sudden peaks in demand by enabling an organisation to make an immediate response by expanding remote access connectivity in a very cost-effective manner. ICE is able to provide licenses for a large number of additional users on a Secure Access SSL VPN appliance for a limited time.
Instant Virtual Systems (IVS) – (available for SA 4500) IVS is a framework which allows administrators or service providers to completely segment SSL VPN between multiple groups and customers within a single appliance/cluster. The administrator benefits from the IVS because they only have to manage one device/cluster. This is due to the IVS featuring complete application-layer, network-layer and access management virtualisation enabling end groups to experience their own SSL VPN deployment.