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Fiberlink Communications

Product Version Certified: Extend360 1.2.700.108
Certified for use with: SecuRemote/SecureClient NG with AI (R56)

Product Description: Fiberlink helps enterprises connect, secure, and manage their mobile workforce while providing unparalleled value for the business. Fiberlink is the only company in the world to provide mobile workers access to the Internet via Wi-Fi, broadband, dial-up and wide-area wireless through a single user interface. We provide a comprehensive solution that increases security and lowers costs.
 
Key Features and Benefits
OPSEC Integration
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Company Description: Fiberlink provides the software and services that enable enterprises to securely mobilize their workforces and strike the best balance of user productivity and IT control. More than 800,000 mobile workers have relied on Fiberlink's ubiquitous Wi-Fi, wide-area wireless, broadband and/or dial-up solutions for "no-hassle" access to e-mail, data and other network-based resources.

Fiberlink's mobile workforce solutions go beyond basic network connectivity to ensure IT organizations have total control over the myriad security threats, compliance policies and cost concerns that are often associated with mobile computing. Gartner, Yankee Group and Burton Group consistently recognize Fiberlink as an innovative leader in mobile and remote access solutions. Fiberlink customers include Continental Airlines, Grant Thornton and Targus Group International. Headquartered in Blue Bell, Pa., Fiberlink has offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
 
Key Features and Benefits
Fiberlink offers the broadest set of solutions that solve the problems associated with mobile computing in today's global enterprise organizations. Built upon Fiberlink's DNA Platform, Fiberlink's award-winning mobile access software, Fiberlink Extend360™, enables organizations to provide both total network protection and true anytime, anywhere access.

Fiberlink Extend360 eliminates the need to rely on a piecemeal strategy for remote access because it brings together everything you need to connect, secure and manage the extended enterprise. It combines a world-class collection of access transport options with the industry's most robust security measures to keep mobile workers connected while protecting mission-critical assets. Extend360 also provides the most comprehensive set of administrative tools that enable IT managers to efficiently push security policy and software updates to mobile workers across the extended enterprise.

Fiberlink Extend360 features include:

360° OF PRODUCTIVITY

  • True anytime, anywhere access through existing and emerging transport types, including dial-up, broadband and wireless.
  • Automatic access number selection and connection.
  • Easy-to-understand visual indicators of current connection and compliance state.

360° OF PROTECTION

  • End-to-end encryption of all user information.
  • A single authentication interface for both Internet access and corporate VPN client profiles. Intelligent monitoring and remediation of personal firewall and anti-virus software.
  • Patch management capabilities enabling identification and remediation of security vulnerabilities at mobile endpoints.
  • Persistent Policy Enforcement™ to provide automated security policy enforcement from system start-up to shut down.
  • Restricted Application Protection™ prohibits use of unapproved applications such as peer-to-peer and instant messenger applications.

360° OF CONTROL

  • Dynamic control of the Extend360 client software via a centralized policy management system.
  • User-friendly updating with resumable downloads, bandwidth throttling, background updating and bandwidth-sensitive updates.
  • User-specific access policies so you can match appropriate access types to individual users.

360° OF VALUE

  • Lower Total Cost of Ownership.
  • Common interface for all users provides lower training costs and greater ease-of-use.
  • Enterprise-class connectivity, security and control, all integrated into a single, unified client.
OPSEC Integration

Fiberlink integrates with CheckPoint VPN client software using available command line instructions (CLI) with Fiberlink's mobile access and security platform, Extend360.

Benefits of the Fiberlink/CheckPoint integration to end user and enterprise customer:

  • Ensures that mobile user's PC is actively running designated security software (e.g. personal firewall, AV, etc.) and is in version compliance prior to allowing launch of the VPN client on their machine

  • Enables single-sign on by having mobile user login credentials entered into Fiberlink software once, then passed via CLI to Check Point VPN upon launch request

  • Post launch tear-down of the VPN client in the event of
    • a detected security event or
    • should any of the designated security software be terminated in the mobile user's machine
Additional Information

Gartner Group positions Fiberlink in the Leaders Quadrant for the 2005 Managed Remote Access & Mobility Services Magic Quadrant. As a leader in the Magic Quadrant for the past three years, Fiberlink has consistently been one of the more innovative companies in the market.

FiberLink Extend360 with SecureClient [PDF]