Software Quality Research Library

Access to corporate applications and data is obviously vital to help keep your business running as usual. A wide range of concerns - ranging from a snow storm that prevents people from coming to work to site failures that can prevent access to information systems - can quickly disrupt business processes. The business impact itself can be significant, leading to poor customer service, loss of credibility and brand, as well as loss of revenue and market share. Your business needs to consider remote access as a key element of its continuity planning to ensure their employees can continue to work remotely should disaster strike at the corporate office. Remote access is an important part of any business continuity or disaster recovery plan. Accordingly, SSL VPN devices are an effective way to provide remote access during a disaster, specifically in the flexibility they provide in not only offering secure access from managed corporate machines, but also from unmanaged computers such as home PCs, or even public machines like kiosks. SSL VPNs also are very easy to set up and manage - you don't have to push out a client to each end user's machine - which can save a lot of time and effort, especially when a disaster strikes.