Black Hole Networks Technology vs SSL-VPN

According to Jupiter Research, both small medium size businesses (SMB) and enterprises say that almost 40% of employees spend more than 60% of their time away from their desks. At the same time, virtual private networks (VPN) are significantly under penetrated with 40% of SMBs having deployed such technology. Making VPNs simpler to deploy and manage will create a natural up sell for business service providers and for vendors that offer remote connectivity.

In the race for market share incumbent firewall and VPN vendors have concentrated to secure the site-to-site VPN market and lost focus and neglected development of the remote access market. Coupled with the acquisition of SSH by Safenet and the resulting changes in licensing policy and product quality, IPSec VPN clients are suffering from usability, efficiency and sheer existence due to their lack of user friendliness, especially when it comes to allocating, configuring, and accessing networks. The result was the creation of the SSL-VPN products as an alternative. However, the alternative seems to acknowledge that IPSec VPNs have security advantages over SSL VPNs in terms of encryption algorithms, bridging sites over untrusted networks, and al owing true socket connection over secure tunnels, alowing latency sensitive applications to have full connectivity.

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