Introduction

The two most common cries of corporate management through the late 1990s and early 2000s were, We must be secure and We must be flexible. In order to be flexible, a workforce must be mobile and adaptive to change. In essence, the workforce has to be fluid. The nature of security inherently places restrictions on the workforce. Either they can no longer access every file on a given share drive, or need to call a help desk because they can t remember the password for a particular server. Every one of these incidents creates a lag in time, where productivity seems to slow down or stop. Fluidity changes to solidity, and it s the fault of security... or at least that s how it s perceived.

This chapter is dedicated to the increasing number of employees that are either working comfortably at home or just simply away from the office, who need corporate access as if working locally. Since 1996, SecuRemote has been the primary VPN client from Check Point, made freely available, providing your firewall has proper VPN licensing. In 2001, Check Point released SecureClient, which provides additional and increased security over its little brother. SecureClient has the ability to receive a desktop policy from a VPN-1/Firewall-1 Policy Server. This increased security requires a SecureClient license, which is licensed by the number of users that can download a policy from your gateway.

In late 2003, Check Point focused the direction of their corporate strategy, increasing development on internal and web security. The...