Microsoft To Equip ISA Server With SSL VPN Capabilities
Friday, 23 December 2005 by Michel Roth
Slightly OT but I still wanted to mention this as I think this will add capabilities to ISA Server which it needs to make it a more mature product:

"The US IT security company Whale is to cooperate with Microsoft to expand Microsoft's Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) Server to include an SSL-based VPN solution for encrypted network connections. This emerges from a press release by Whale. Besides an application-level firewall and an expanded Web-cache function Microsoft's ISA Server also offers a VPN solution, which so far has been exclusively IPSec-based.

SSL VPN solutions have the advantage that they can be easily operated across firewall and NAT boundaries. Whereas in the case of IPSec, complex firewall rules cannot in general be dispensed with, an SSL VPN at worst requires a simple port forward."

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