Enterprise wide offers secure remote client/server access [New Products]

Abstract

Techsmith’s Enterprise Wide allows remote deployment and use of distributed dat‘ and services in a cliendserver environment. Enterprise Wide consists of software for both the remote client and the LAN gateway, as well as an intelligent communications adapter card for the LAN gateway PC. Dial-up telephone lines and standard modems connect remote workstations to the network. Version 2.6 offers two new security options and enhanced third-party security support, and will also support Windows 95 as a remote-access client. The product integrates into an existing security scheme, or it can provide remote-access security for organizations that have not yet adopted a system. If a company’s security is based on Novell’s NetWare, Enterprise Wide allows remote-access security integration, using the security features of Novell NetWare 3.x and 4.x in bindery emulation mode. This features reduces training time for users, according the Techsmith. Users access their networks as they do when they are directly on the LAN. Also, system administrators do not have to maintain separate databases for remote access. This security system can validate Enterprise Wide 2.5 workstations, or any workstation running a third-party Point-to-point Protocol stack that supports Password Authentication Protocol authorization. This lets mixed-protocol environments exploit Novell’s security services. Enterprise Wide’s Security System lets companies without a LAN-based security system incorporate one for remote access. System administrators can designate particular phone numbers to call back to enforce secure locations, and to consolidate phone bills. T h e Security System runs on a separate system under Windows 3.x, Windows N T , or Windows 95. It features password protection for Enterprise Wide user database; the ability to add, delete, or disable users (disabling prevents logins, but does not remove a user from the password file); global administration of user ID and password files for all Enterprise Wide gateways installed at the site; and userdatabase file encryption to protect against browsing Enterprise Wide 2.6 supports security technologies using Terminal Access Controller Access Control Systems such as Security Dynamics’ SecurID and ACS/Server and Enigma Logic’s SafeWord. Enterprise \n7ide uses an intelligent software agent, ProtocolAssist, to optimize the conversation over the remote link. Protocolhsist applies intelligence a t the remote workstation and the LAN gateway to allow more processing to be performed at full network speed instead of over the slower remote link, claims the company. It avoids message and response delays by having the gateway acknowledge each data required by the remote client to pass through. Enterprise Wide 2.6 will be available during the third quarter of 1995. Prices, including unlimited workstation distribution and four concurrent asynchronous connections, start at $2,495. Circle reader service number 21