Napera, the company that bases its NAC products on Microsoft software, is expanding the capabilities of its box. New software for the appliance enables a gateway firewall, support for a remote-access VPN and a DHCP server. The firewall is a basic, packet-filtering product along the lines of what is offered in a small office-home office appliance.

Our network administration expert explains why this remote worker cannot connect to their company's virtual private network (VPN) through their Linksys router, in this expert response.

F5 Networks has issued a new version of its FirePass software so it can apply group access policies to mobile devices as the log-in to SSL VPNs.

I have been working out of the house for years for a large corporation and have had no prior problems connecting to our virtual private network (VPN). However, my cable Internet provider recently forced me to close my residential account and open a separate business account to use a VPN. We have tried using two different modems: one with a static IP and the other with a dynamic IP. When I connect either of these directly to my laptop, I can get into the VPN, but when I go through a Linksys router, the VPN does not work. Any suggestions?

My company does a lot work with Juniper SSL implemenations.There has been some odd behavior in Firefox on Windows machines when connecting to Juniper SSL VPN. Immediately after login users are taken to a blank white page. The URL of the page contains data/home/starter0.cgi?check=yes . The page you should be redirected to includes data/home/starter.cgi?check=yes.

Check Point Software Technologies today announced VPN-1 Virtual Edition (VE) and claims it is the first company to provide unified security management for both physical networks and virtual applications.

Check Point announced VPN-1 Virtual Edition (VE), which delivers the same best-of-class security for virtual applications that Fortune 500 companies depend on to secure their corporate networks and data centers. Check Point is a company that provides unified security management for both physical networks and virtual applications. read more

Check Point is introducing a version of its VPN-1 software that runs on VMware ESX or ESXi to protect virtual machines from one another when they are running on a single piece of hardware.

Learn which simulators you can use to simulate voice over IPSec VPNs in this advice from our network security expert.

I read an interesting article on The Critical Role of Automation in a Virtualized World. The author talks about how all the increases in efficiency that come with virtualization bring a vast increase in complexity that threatens mission-critical business processing. He talks about enterprise schedulers with automation capabilities that provide a solution.