Re: SSL VPN vs. IPSec VPN

[Frederick M Avolio <fred () avolio com>]

Joe Mazzotti wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
>      I'd like to get some opinions on the pro's and con's of using an
> SSL VPN vs. using IPSec VPN for remote access to our corporate office.
> The idea is to eliminate 3rd party software and use a web based VPN
> solution to lower support cost.  Our options (aside from keeping our
> current IPSec software and VPN concentrator) are to use the web based
> VPN on the concentrator (Cisco VPN3000 series) or use SSL VPN.
>
> Does anyone have any links to decent articles comparing IPSec to SSL
> based VPN security?  What are your opinions?

http://www.avolio.com/papers/SSLVPN_SecWP.pdf
http://netsecurity.about.com/cs/generalsecurity/a/aa111703.htm
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=44442

Fred

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