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Arcot VPN for Check Point

Product Version Certified: 3.0 for Windows 98 and Windows NT
Certified for use with: Check Point Next Generation and Check Point 2000

Product Description: Arcot for Check Point VPN maximizes a customer's investment in a Virtual Private Network (VPN) by securing the digital identities of VPN users. With hardware level security in an easy-to-use software-only solution, corporations are able to manage access to sensitive internal data not only within the enterprise, but also among their customers, vendors and partners. The Arcot solution can also be leveraged across multiple applications requiring strong authentication and digital signatures.

 
Key Features and Benefits
OPSEC Integration		 Arcot Systems
 

Company Description: Arcot Systems provides secure digital identity solutions to ensure privacy and reduce fraud in enterprise and Internet transactions.

Only Arcot can provide a software-based solution with any-device, anywhere, anytime capabilities for users that demand mobility, security, and convenience. Leaders in financial services, healthcare, and e-commerce are adopting Arcot to protect user privacy, confidential information and secure transactions.

 
Key Features and Benefits
Features:
  • Provides strong authentication prior to accessing sensitive internal resources:
    • ArcotID - something you have
    • PIN - something you know
  • Immune to offline attacks
  • Portability of ArcotIDs across multiple clients
  • Interfaces to VPN-1 via standard RADIUS
  • Simple installation into both SecureClient and SecuRemote VPN clients.
    • Self installing executable
    • Small size client is easily downloaded
  • Easily scalable
    • Throughout the enterprise to support growing numbers of remote employees
    • Across the extranet (customers/vendors/partners)
  • Based on industry standard X.509.v3 digital certificates
    • Support certificates from leading certificate vendors
    • Provides for data confidentiality and integrity as well as non-repudiation and strong authentication
  • 100% software based solution – no special hardware is required

Benefits:

  • Utilizes ArcotIDs combining the tamper resistance of hardware with the convenience and ease of use of software
  • Easy to use, portable ArcotIDs allow access to protected resources anywhere at anytime
  • Reduces risk of lost revenue or damaged image as a result of unauthorized access
  • High scalability and performance - scales to 100,000’s of users
  • Intuitive and easy to use
  • Based on industry standards assuring a best of breed solution
  • Freedom to choose among products from leading certificate vendors and to change at anytime as MIS objectives change
  • Protects digital credentials with patent-pending cryptographic camouflage technology
  • Easily deployed and supported by internal MIS or through a managed service provider
OPSEC Integration
Arcot integrates with the Check Point FireWall-1/VPN-1 solution at two points: the client workstation and at the gateway. A small executable file automatically installs the Arcot plug-in in both SecuRemote and SecureClient VPN clients. On the backend, Arcot interfaces with Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 using the standard RADIUS protocol. Arcot installation is simplified in that no additional software needs to be installed on the firewall itself.