Evros: A Service-Delivery Platform for Extending Security Coverage and IT Reach

摘要

Evros is an always-available, secure service-delivery platform for enterprise remote access and device management. Evros satisfies the broad necessities of the key players in today's remote-access/device-management space: the information technology (IT) administrator, who needs an affordable means to minimize threat reaction latencies and continuously monitor the health of off-site laptops; the roaming employee, who needs a streamlined network access experience with conflict-free automatic backups and software updates; and the broadband wireless access service provider, who needs compelling applications to expand the subscription base and increase network utilization during off-peak hours. The platform is built on three components, the Evros card, the Evros gateway, and the Evros management server. The Evros card is a laptop personal computer (PC) card with an embedded wireless wide area network (WWAN) modem, processor, battery, and nonvolatile memory. It independently establishes the Internet Protocol security (IPsec) tunnel that secures the remote access connection, and its WWAN interface makes the laptop reachable by the IT organization virtually anytime and anywhere. The Evros gateway is an enhanced secure access server that deploys within the network perimeter. It hosts the enterprise end points of the IPsec tunnels and exploits the extended reachability of the laptop to improve the effectiveness of all remote management functions. The Evros management server is a software suite for the management of all Evros components.