Build a Secure Remote Access Solution for a Mobile Workforce

By extending network access to remote users, you can increase business productivity and efficiency while reducing costs.

Companies have changed they way they conduct business. As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile and global, finding a highly secure, cost-effective remote access solution to extend your network to branch offices, telecommuters, customers, and partners is critical.

You need to protect the privacy and integrity of all information, but you also need a solution that is flexible, versatile, and simple to manage. Cisco offers many options for remote access that will help you to:

• Improve productivity
• Enable new business applications
• Enhance business efficiency
• Comply with information privacy regulations

Our solutions include a set of products and security lifecycle services that are essential parts of the Cisco Self-Defending Network. By incorporating capabilities that help secure the network and endpoints, as well as applications and messages, this systems-based approach provides comprehensive security for your communications.

The solution has two major elements:

Remote Access VPNs: Gives remote users highly secure, customizable access to corporate networks and applications by establishing an encrypted tunnel across the Internet.

Site-to-Site VPNs: Provides an Internet-based WAN infrastructure for connecting branch offices, home offices, or business partners' sites to your network.