Novell BorderManager 3.8 includes premier firewall and VPN technologies that safeguard your network and help you build a secure identity management solution. With the powerful directory-integrated features in Novell BorderManager, you can monitor users' Internet activities and control their remote access to corporate resources.

Moreover, Novell BorderManager provides Internet access control and supports numerous content-filtering solutions. These features protect your network from undesirable Internet content, including programs that destroy or steal data, games that waste users' time and Web pages that expose your company to legal liability.

Other solutions offer content filtering as a separate product; BorderManager includes it to provide a single, integrated security solution that helps your employees stay focused and productive. VPN software is included free in BorderManager.

Microsoft's ISA Server 2000 does not include integrated content-filtering and offers fewer layers of security. It's also limited to Windows* 2000 and cannot be used in non-Windows environments.

SOLUTIONS

Protect your business

• Role-based access control determines what resources users are entitled to access—including Internet resources.
• Selectively block harmful and unproductive content from entering your network.
• Secure your perimeters with firewalls that defend against attack and forward-proxy servers that can be installed between your network and the Internet.
• Implement virtual private networks (VPNs) to connect remote sites and users while ensuring the absolute confidentiality of what passes between your network and your remote users.
• Protect your network against harmful or illegal content with filtering that blocks the content before it enters your system.

Keep employees productive

• Limit employee access to non-work-related Web sites while permitting them access to sites they need to conduct business.
• Identity-based access ensures that users are capable of accessing approved content over the Internet.
• Content filtering allows you to monitor employee Internet usage and to prevent undesirable materials from being downloaded onto your network. Restrictions can be tailored to the individual user.

Enhance network performance

• Proxy caching provides a low-cost alternative to expensive equipment upgrades, enabling you to maximize your existing bandwidth investment—instead of constantly paying for more.
• Forward proxy caches frequently requested content so that subsequent requests do not have to travel across the Internet to retrieve information.
• Monitoring and filtering features reduce the amount of non-business traffic that travels through your network. This saves expensive network bandwidth for business—allowing employees to complete tasks far more quickly because the network isn't clogged with frivolous non-business traffic.

Other solutions offer content filtering as a separate product; BorderManager includes it to provide a single, integrated security solution that helps your employees stay focused and productive. VPN software is included free in BorderManager. Microsoft's ISA Server 2000 does not include integrated content-filtering and offers fewer layers of security. It's also limited to Windows* 2000 and cannot be used in non-Windows environments.

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