SRA Software Components
SRA appliances provide clientless identity-based secure remote access to the protected internal network. Using the Virtual Office environment, SRA appliances can provide users with secure remote access to your entire private network, or to individual components such as File Shares, Web servers, FTP servers, remote desktops, or even individual applications hosted on Citrix or Microsoft Terminal Servers.
Although SRA protocols are described as clientless, the typical SRA portal combines Web, Java, and ActiveX components that are downloaded from the SRA portal transparently, allowing users to connect to a remote network without needing to manually install and configure a VPN client application. In addition, SRA enables users to connect from a variety of devices, including Windows, Macintosh, and Linux PCs. ActiveX components are only supported on Windows platforms.
For administrators, the SRA Web-based management interface provides an end-to-end SSL VPN solution. This interface can configure SRA users, access policies, authentication methods, user bookmarks for network resources, and system settings.
For clients, Web-based SRA customizable user portals enable users to access, update, upload, and download files and use remote applications installed on desktop machines or hosted on an application server. The platform also supports secure Web-based FTP access, network neighborhood-like interface for file sharing, Secure Shell versions 1 and 2 (SSHv1) and (SSHv2), Telnet emulation, VNC (Virtual Network Computing) and RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) support, Citrix Web access, bookmarks for offloaded portals (external Web sites), and Web and HTTPS proxy forwarding.
The SRA network extension client, NetExtender, is available through the SRA Web portal via an ActiveX control on Windows or using Java on MacOS or Linux systems. It is also available through stand-alone applications for Windows, Linux, and MacOS platforms. The NetExtender standalone applications are automatically installed on a client system the first time the user clicks the NetExtender link in the Virtual Office portal. SRA NetExtender enables end users to connect to the remote network without needing to install and configure complex software, providing a secure means to access any type of data on the remote network. NetExtender supports IPv6 client connections from Windows systems running Vista or newer, and from Linux clients.
