VeriSign, a provider of Internet trust services, has announced plans to participate in PricewaterhouseCoopers` VPN Centre of Excellence opening later this summer.
PricewaterhouseCoopers will provide a lab - accessible from the Internet - made up of participating vendors` VPN products and VeriSign OnSite and Go Secure! Services. Designed for enterprises deploying secure VPNs, the Centre will speed the deployment of VPNs by making it quick and easy for users to demonstrate a proof-of-concept among various VPN applications including those from Check Point, IRE, Network
Associates, Network Alchemy, and TimeStep.
PricewaterhouseCoopers`s lab will host "sensitive corporate data" for a fictitious corporation. Using the participating applications, enterprises can remotely connect to a VPN and access data through an authenticated and secure VPN tunnel.
With VeriSign`s added participation, enterprises will be able to create a prototype public key infrastructure (PKI) to issue and manage IPSec digital certificates using VeriSign`s managed services approach. VeriSign is providing VeriSign OnSite Test Drive to allow strong authentication between the remote clients and each device on the VPN. VeriSign OnSite, combined with the company`s Go Secure! Services are designed to facilitate enterprise-wide digital certificate deployment for a variety of e-commerce applications. VeriSign`s Go Secure! Services enable organisations of any size to rapidly deploy digital certificate-based authentication, privacy and non-alterable digital signatures in both new and existing applications.
"This lab, combined with our new Go Secure! Services, will help our customers greatly accelerate the deployment of secure VPNs," says Richard Yanowitch, executive vice president for VeriSign.
With the launch of this Centre, enterprises will be able to see exactly how products work in a network configuration without investing time and resources to set up servers, gateways, network infrastructure, and telecommunications lines needed to establish a VPN for site-to-site or remote access. Enterprises will also be able to access VPN implementation services from PricewaterhouseCoopers including design samples, implementation guidelines, and project plans.
Participating vendors` VPN products included in the lab provide all the necessary components to set up a VPN for remote and site-to-site access:
Check Point: VPN-1 4.1 VPN gateway and SecuRemote 4.1 remote access client
IRE: SafeNet/SoftPK remote access client
Network Associates: Gauntlet-VPN gateway and PGP remote access client
Network Alchemy: VPN gateway
TimeStep: VPN gateway and remote access client
PricewaterhouseCoopers` Web site is at www.pwcglobal.com.
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