Business Continuity SSL

How It Works

Flexible and Scalable Connectivity

The MegaPath Business Continuity SSL is a flexible networking solution that scales to meet the connectivity needs of your workforce in the event of a disaster. This service can augment your existing MPLS Site-to-Site VPN or act as a stand-alone solution, available only when you need it.

If you have an MPLS Site-to-Site VPN, you can choose to keep the SSL equipment in our MegaPath network center. This offers you a hosted solution that we manage and maintain, saving your IT department time and resources. You can also host our service in your own data center, integrating it with your existing network equipment. In either case, we deploy adequate hardware and connections to scale to your user population the moment you need it.

Robust Access Control for Every User and Device

MegaPath works with you to define your access control policies for each group of users and the devices they use to access the network. These policy zones are determined by the relative security risk of each specific device. Those controlled by your IT department are more trusted than public devices. A user accessing the network through a company-issued laptop, for example, would have more applications and resources available than a user accessing the network from a kiosk at the airport.

These access control policies, combined with end-point control, determine which policy zone users are placed in each time they access the network. Policy zones can contain multiple user and device profiles, allowing a single zone to reflect multiple end-point scenarios.

Access is classified into three zones:

• Trusted
  Devices that are issued and managed by your company; users can access all of their network-based applications when they log on with their user names and passwords
• Semi-trusted
  Devices that are known and secure—like a home office or a partner site—but aren't directly managed by your IT department
• Non-trusted
  Public devices—like Internet kiosks in an airport or hotel business office

The zone determines the access environment a user experiences. An employee who takes his laptop home and uses it to access the corporate LAN may have access to a wide range of applications—for example, a CRM system or database. If that same employee connects from his home computer, which doesn't have a firewall, he might only have access to his email account.