To support a rapidly expanding remote workforce, a company needs a dedicated device that can terminate and manage thousands of simultaneous VPN tunnels while providing strong authentication, encryption, and centralized policy enforcement. Which network appliance should the security team deploy?
Intrusion detection and prevention system (IDS/IPS)
A VPN concentrator is a purpose-built appliance that creates, terminates, and manages large numbers of VPN tunnels. It performs hardware-accelerated encryption and authentication, scales to thousands of concurrent connections, and lets administrators enforce remote-access policies from one central point. An IDS/IPS inspects traffic for threats, a load balancer distributes application traffic for availability, and a content-filtering gateway screens web or email content; none of these devices are designed to establish VPN tunnels for remote users.
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