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 We have been providing secure remote access to our employees with the Aventail SSLVPN for a while with optimal results. We have now extended these SSL VPNcapabilities to our PDA users with Connect Mobile, keeping them as connected andproductive as if they were in the office, said Michael Doak, Network OperationsManager, Mitsubishi Electronic Power Products, Inc.  Using Connect Mobile for ourPDA users is easier, more secure, and more economical than deploying and supportinga separate mobile email solution.Â
To increase productivity and security for todayÂ's workers, many enterprises arechoosing to issue PDAs to mobile workers, such as sales or service personnel. Infact over 22% of the workforce use some type of mobile application, such as emailand calendaring, and are demanding access to additional corporate applications andresources. It is therefore an IT imperative to find secure solutions that enableincreased user productivity on PDAs. These solutions need to ensure security of thedata and the corporate applications and integrate to the existing environmentwithout being an expensive or unnecessary point solution. Aventail Connect Mobile isthe first solution to meet those requirements.
Aventail ST2 with Connect Mobile provides complete security and control of mobiledevice access to critical network resources from any wireless network environment.Connect Mobile is a small agent that can be deployed on demand from a Web portal, orinstalled on the mobile device. It instantly provides users with secure,authenticated access to their email and client/server applications, as if they wereon the corporate LAN. Significantly for full user productivity, this means that PDAusers have session persistence, and can click on links in emails and immediatelyapprove requisitions or review documents, instead of waiting to log in from theirlaptop. For top-level security, Connect Mobile provides encryption, highly granularaccess controls, End Point Control to interrogate the health of the device, andDevice Watermarking to protect lost or stolen devices.
Deployments Highlighted:
Mitsubishi Electronic Power Products, Inc.
Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. (MEPPI) serves the North American powersystems, metals production, rail transportation, and water treatment industries withelectrical and electronic products, systems, and services. Aventail provides MEPPIÂ'semployees with full network access to their corporate networks not only from theirlaptops, but also, through Connect Mobile, from their mobile PDAs. With AventailConnect Mobile and ST2, MEPPIÂ's administrators have the ability to selectivelydetermine who gets access to specific resources based on the type and health of thedevice that they are connecting from---an invaluable security feature. For example,Connect Mobile enables the IT Administrators at MEPPI to respond to almost any helpdesk support issue from their PDA from any location.
Trans State Airlines (TSA)
The sixth-largest independent regional airline in the country, TSA carries over 3.4million passengers with over 300 flights to 62 cities as a quality regional feederairline for American Airlines, United Airlines, and US Airways. Aventail ST2provides TSAÂ's 2000 aviation professionals including executive and management staff,contracted pilots on non-IT managed mobile devices and business partners like UnitedAirlines and Sabre with a secure remote access solution that works easily anddependably, while simultaneously reducing administrative demands on their limited ITstaff. Using Aventail Connect Mobile, executives can use their PDAs to access theinformation they need from anywhere on the road, and pilots can make a last minutereview of flight plans before taking off. .
Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC)
The Mississippi Department of CorrectionsÂ' mission is to provide and promote publicsafety through efficient and effective custody, care, control and treatment ofoffenders. AventailÂ's strong support of mobile devices is one of the main reasonsMDOC chose Aventail as their SSL VPN vendor. Aventail ST2 SSL VPN enables theMDOCÂ's 600 users  including parole and correction officers, private prisons, andstate jails -- to connect remotely to its offender tracking system, probation andparole system, inmate banking system, intranet, and email, significantly increasingtheir productivity. And using ST2 with Aventail Connect Mobile, MDOCÂ's growingnumber of PDA users, including the Commissioner, can efficiently and securely workfrom anywhere.
More information on AventailÂ's Mobile Solutions and Connect Mobile can be found at:http://www.aventail.com/so lutions/mobile_enterprise.asp
About AventailAventail is the best-of-breed remote-access company. Aventail delivered the firstSSL VPN solution in 1997 and today is a market leader, delivering the easiest to useand control remote-access solution. Aventail Smart SSL VPN appliances provide userswith transparent, clientless access to more applications from more devices via anynetwork environment. For network managers, Aventail delivers a single secure accessgateway for all users, internal and external, to all network resources with completesecurity. With more than two and a half million end users around the globe, Aventailis the SSL VPN of choice among mid to large-sized organizations worldwide, includingAT&T, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Chicago Housing Authority, DuPont,Radiology Ltd, James Richardson International, Organization for Economic Cooperationand Development (OECD), Overlake Hospital, IBM Global Services, and hundreds more.For more information, go to www.aventail.com.
