TABLE OF CONTENTS Once you ve decided to enable remote users to access your internal network through a VPN connection, you still face the tricky issue of configuring the remote users machines. Fortunately, Check Point provides the SecureClient Packaging Tool, which can largely automate this process.
The SecureClient Packaging Tool, which consists mostly of two wizards for creating profiles and packages, allows administrators to create customized SecuRemote and SecureClient installation applications. These installation packages can provide seven specific benefits:
The administrator can create, test, and debug an installation package and then provide a consistent, working, repeatable process for what can be a tricky installation.
Users need only run the installation package and reboot.
The installation can be automatically configured with specific default settings.
The package can be configured for silent installation, in which the user does not have to make configuration decisions.
The administrator can customize the flow of the end user s installation process.
The administrator can manually configure additional options for the client installation.
It s easier to distribute a single executable to users than an entire directory of configuration files.
If you re not sure whether you should roll out your VPN solution to remote users using the SecureClient Packaging tool, it s often best to err on the side of implementing with an installation package rather than without. Check Point FireWall-1 is fairly complex; this is a good opportunity to shield your end users from some of that complexity.
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