Barracuda awarded SC Magazine’s 2010 Reader Trust Award for best IPSec / SSL VPN

SonicWall won SC Magazine’s Reader Trust Award for best IPSec / SSL VPN solution, beating out Astaro, Citrix, F5 and Microsoft.

“….As the global workplace becomes increasingly mobile – IDC expects 1.9 billion users on the internet and three billion users on the phone network by 2012 – organizations require secure, clientless remote access to internal network resources from any web browser. Typical users require the use of email, file servers, intranet websites, databases and desktop access to office workstations. With conventional VPN solutions, such as IPsec or PPTP, secure access to resources is often difficult or impossible to manage. Designed for remote employees and road warriors, the Barracuda SSL VPN provides comprehensive control over file systems and web-based applications requiring external access. The Barracuda SSL VPN integrates with third-party authentication mechanisms to control user access levels and provides single sign-on.

The solution is based on technology obtained through the acquisition of 3SP (based in the U.K.), the originators of the acclaimed SSL-Explorer technology. With more than 275,000 downloads of its community edition on the internet, SSL-Explorer was a highly praised and award-winning software product. After the acquisition by Barracuda Networks, this remote access technology was then integrated with Barracuda Networks’ own leading anti-virus management framework and hardware appliance technologies…”

Read the full article here.

Other Finalists for this category (2010):

• Astaro Internet Security for Astaro Security Gateway
• Barracuda Networks for Barracuda SSL VPN
• Citrix Systems for Citrix Access Gateway
• F5 Networks for FirePass SSL VPN
• Microsoft Corp. for Forefront Unified Access Gateway
• SonicWALL for SonicWALL Aventail EX7000

Barracuda SSL VPN is immediately available from your local value-added distributor – Trans Niaga.

About Trans Niaga:

Trans Niaga (www.transniaga.com) is a 100% IT Security focused company specializing in distribution of best-of-breed corporate IT security solutions. Incorporated since 2001, it is headquartered in Malaysia, and today has offices in Thailand, Brunei, Singapore, Hong Kong & China. With more than 400 resellers nationwide, Trans Niaga provides extensive channel sales management, on-site POC (Proof of Concept) implementation, installation, best practice policy configuration, after-sales technical support, certified technical training, standards compliance consultancy and outsourcing services to governments, banks, telcos, utilities, universities and corporations of all sizes and industry.