We have some customers that force us to use their VPN. How is SecureLink VSN™ similar to, or better than a VPN?
SecureLink VSN™ is similar to a VPN in that it enables access to network resources from a remote location. However, the SecureLink VSN™ offers your customers additional levels of security, control and audit with less effort and infrastructure. With a VPN account, it’s typical for more than one support technician (sometimes hundreds) to share a single login, making accountability and compliance impossible. A high security environment may attempt to issue individual VPN accounts and key fobs to each individual requiring access, but these overly burdensome policies don’t typically last very long when the support technicians must provide a drivers license, social security number, etc. Additionally, unless the software company provides a daily list of the support technicians who have been hired & fired, it’s impossible to be certain if an account should still be active. Since SecureLink VSN™ authenticates the support technician against her own Active Directory (or LDAP) account, these issue
