We tested Whale Communications’ SSL VPN back in 2003 and the product didn’t fare very well. Microsoft bought Whale in 2006, jettisoned some of the strange idiosyncracies of the product, dramatically ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Software ...

I'm looking into a firewall/VPN appliance for a small office, and the Watchguard XTM-23 looks like a good fit. My main concern is that their SSL VPN client works OK on Macs. A lot of the users travel, ...

In Figure 10-1, remote access users at an Internet caf , airport Internet kiosk, and a hotel access the corporate network using variously HTTPS, POP3S, SMTPS, and port forwarding (TCP-based ...