House builder Chooses SSL for net Access

摘要

When national home builder The Ryland Group chose Secure Sockets Layer remote-access equipment to let more workers tie into corporate resources, it also found a way to give business partners restricted access to the network. Along the way, the technology saved Ryland from having to replicate servers and place them in a secure network segment where remote users could reach them over the Internet. The company already had an extensive WAN made up of a 31-site frame relay network, 350 sales offices and 350 work-site trailers tied via IP Security (IPSec) VPN remote access using software clients. Three other sites were tied in by site-to-site IPSec VPNs.