Download this new executive brief highlighting Virtela's solution to maintain employee productivity when you are faced with absenteeism due to workforce disruptions such as the H1N1 flu. This paper will show you how to prepare your network to support your business when these unexpected events arise. Virtela's SSL VPN solution can be implemented extremely quickly and without capital expense. You also have the ability to reserve seats and have them available when end user usage spikes, without having to overbuild your remote access infrastructure.
H1N1 Flu Business Continuity Planning
Maintain Productivity Now via Virtela's Cloud Based SSL VPN Solutions
Absenteeism due to H1N1 flu is currently impacting productivity for businesses around the globe and there is little doubt among authorities that pandemics will continue to be a threat to the global population. The question is not if, but when will the next one occur and where, and to what degree? And how do you protect your business and maintain operational without breaking the bank? Budgets are lean, so allocating dollars for infrastructure that safeguards against events with uncertain probabilities can be a tough sell internally.
Is your enterprise network tested and capable of being mobilized in the face of a pandemic? Is your staff trained and ready to respond from remote locations to keep business operating from anywhere in the world? A considerable amount of planning, policy engineering, training, and testing must go into an effective pandemic mitigation plan. One component of planning, addressed here is that of ensuring adequate secure remote access to corporate applications for employees to allow them to work from home or other remote locations for an extended period of time. Corporations need to ensure that employees can continue to be productive in the event they are prevented from physically being in the office on the corporate LAN during a crisis. How can Virtela address disruptions due to H1N1 today?
Addressing Today's Needs Now Virtela's Cloud Based SSL VPN Service Virtela provides capex-free secure remote access Virtela offers a Cloud Based SSL VPN Remote Access solutions that can address the needs of today's Service, leveraging Virtela's existing SSL VPN H1N1 threat by enabling a secure means for gateways deployed in the Virtela network cloud. employees to remotely access corporate LAN Gateways are available in the US, Europe, and resources. Virtela leverages an "in-the-cloud" Asia/Pac, providing a solution for multinational infrastructure of gateways, allowing services to be corporations and performance optimization for implemented within days to support current remote travelling employees. Virtela eliminates the high access needs. cost of gateway purchases and inherent delays associated with dedicated implementations, Without a cloud based solution, corporations in providing a solution which allows IT manager's to need of remote access would typically require the maintain productivity today. purchase of equipment that may or may not be budgeted, while also having to wait due to Virtela's Cloud Based SSL VPN Service also provides manufacturing intervals and shipping. Then there the ability to assign end users to multiple gateways are the headaches involved with international in a particular region as well as between global shipments and customs delays, potentially stretching regions with load balancing utilized to allocate users overall implementation to months before appropriately. This provides an additional level of completion. redundancy with up to 100% availability, while also
providing a means to optimize performance for problems via a warm handoff such as a call transfer roaming users with access to multiple data centers. or conference call. Secure Remote Access via SSL VPN Compliance Activities End users are provided secure access to corporate Virtela provides event correlation as well as log resources from remote locations using a variety of retention and management services in conjunction computing devices including corporate and home with the Cloud Based SSL VPN Services in order to computers, kiosks, PDAs, and iPhones. Virtela strengthen security as well as assist corporations provides the security of a completely encrypted with compliance related activities such as Sarbanes-network with the flexibility to access resources from Oxley, HIPAA, and PCI. any SSL enabled browser, without the need for pre- installed clients on end user devices. This creates a Core Security more flexible scenario for end users that may not Virtela manages High Availability enterprise firewalls have access to their corporate PC, as may be the and Intrusion Prevention devices in its Regional case during a pandemic. Depending on the security SMPolicy Centers (RPCs) for advanced filtering, profile of the end user, traffic is passed through security and threat management. Firewalls and... [download for more]
