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Intelligent Application Gateway for Microsoft Infrastructure: Net-Gateway mIAG is a comprehensive, high-performance application access and security appliance based on Microsoft ISA Server 2006 and Whale Communications Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 platform. mIAG unifies a Web application firewall, SSL VPN, and endpoint security to enable secure application access, access control and content inspection for a wide variety of line-of-business applications. Together these technologies provide mobile and remote workers with easy and flexible secure application access from a broad range of devices and locations including PCs, mobile devices and kiosks.

Control Access:

• ISA Server 2006 enables security administrators to publish, secure, and pre-authenticate access to specific line-of-business applications (Exchange Server, SharePoint Server)
• Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 builds upon ISA's access control features with policy-driven, granular access and security policy enforcement for nearly any application, network, server or data resource. IAG's customizable, identity-based Web portal experience delivers the industry's most flexible application-intelligent SSL VPN access from any device or location.

Protect Assets:

• ISA Server 2006 protects the network edge with stateful packet inspection and secures applications with advanced protocol filtering and validation.
• Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 enhances ISA with deep application content inspection and filtering with input validation and granular upload/download controls and an adaptable Web application firewall to enforce application-specific filtering that protects applications from unmanaged devices.

Safeguard Information:

• ISA Server 2006 safeguards information with standards-based IPsec VPN connectivity and a fully integrated application layer firewall.
• Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 builds upon ISA's VPN functionality with browser-based application and network layer access, granular access control, robust endpoint security management and client-side session cleanup.

Key benefits include:

• A unique combination of SSL VPN-based access, integrated application protection, and endpoint security management.
• A powerful, Web-application firewall that helps keep malicious traffic out, and sensitive information in.
• Reduced complexity of managing secure access and protecting business assets with a comprehensive, easy to use platform.
• Interoperability with core Microsoft application infrastructure, third-party enterprise systems, and custom in-house tools.
• Scalability up to 64 nodes in an array, and High Availability (active/active) through the use of Network Load Balancing, integrated in IAG

IAG 2007 Components

Intelligent Application Optimizers - Integrated software modules with pre-configured settings designed for secure remote access to widely used business applications.

• Microsoft Exchange Server
• Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
• SAP
• IBM Domino
• Lotus Notes

Client/Server Connector: Provides out-of-the-box secure access to business critical client/server applications including Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes native client, Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Services, FTP, and Telnet while allowing straightforward configuration for almost any additional client/server application through a generic application definition tool.

The Network Connector: Enables administrators to install, run, and manage remote connections that give users full network-layer connectivity over a virtual and security-enabled transparent connection, and gives users the same functionality they would have if they were connected directly to the corporate network.