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AEP SmartGate VPN Security: An Identity-Based Virtual Private Network (VPN)

The long-standing practice of building private information networks by leasing dedicated circuits has virtually disappeared due to advances in networking technology and economies of scale realized by the Internet. Today, enterprises are seeking solutions that allow secure "Anytime-anywhere" access using the Internet to increase productivity and reduce costs. Virtual Private...

Tags: Network, Identity, AEP Networks, VPNs, Network Security, Networking, Telecommunications, Internet, Security

White papers 2008-07-31

Preparing For Emergencies: Secure Remote Working For Continuity Of Operations

Teleworking has become an everyday occurrence for many organizations. Businesses use teleworking - or remote working - as a way to maximize employee productivity because it allows staff to work from home, from a conference center or while they're on the road. For government though, teleworking plays a role above...

Tags: AEP Networks, Government, Remote Access, Vertical Industries, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-10-20

Ensuring Security and Compliance Through Policy-Based Networking

TCP/IP networks were designed to make networking happen automatically and will connect everything to everything else unless otherwise constrained. Although this overall design was perfect for the initial academic and research purposes, and was essential to the Internet evolving to its present form, these "Open" ideas no longer reasonably represent...

Tags: Security, Network, Compliance, AEP Networks, Networking

White papers 2006-09-01

Secure Remote Working: Are We Virtually There Yet?

Has remote working's golden moment finally arrived? Remote working - also known as teleworking, telecommuting or flexible working - is an elegantly simple idea that has taken a surprisingly long time to germinate. Remote working's promise is that it can save an enterprise be it commercial or government significant time,...

Tags: AEP Networks, Telecommuting, Government, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2005-09-15

Additional Resources

Silver Spring signs up another smart grid client

The latest utility to commit to using smart grid technology from Silver Spring Networks is American Electric Power AEP. Silver Spring will be part of the company's gridSMART initiative, which is being engineered by Indiana Michigan Power and AEP Ohio across regions in Indiana and northeast central Ohio. AEP hopes...

Tags: American Electric Power Co. Inc., Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-26

NAC is the new provisioning

Provisioning has been the hottest selling identity product as of late. The reason is simple: compliance with legislation and regulation drives the use of provisioning (and de-provisioning) systems. But coming out of the recent Catalyst show, I'm ready to make a bold prediction: Network Access Control NAC is the "new"...

Tags: Network Access Control

Blog posts 2006-06-21

Putting vendors on the map

Tuesday, I laid out our vision of the digital identity industry map. To expand on that, I'm going to place some vendors on that map -- in effect, mapping their companies (or in the case of big technology companies, their products) to the different categories. The identity universe is composed...

Tags: Eric Norlin, IBM Corp., identity, identity industry, Microsoft Corp., Novell Inc., RSA Security Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-04-06

Where do security companies go to die?

I have been spending the last week researching the 80 or so gateway firewall vendors. Contrary to my long held belief that security companies never die I found that a number of these had actually disappeared without a trace. It is not too hard to track down Kavado,...

Tags: security company, firewall, Spearhead

Blog posts 2006-03-29

If Sun won't use web-based Office, who will?

If Sun won't use web-based Office, who will?PanicPanicing a little aren't you? Google and Sun just announced a deal–do you see Microsoft as so impotent they need this rush to rescue? I haven't heard so many "nevers" or "absolutely nots" since IBM talked about the threat of the PC to...

Tags: StarOffice, Channel management, E-mail, AEP, Microsoft Office, Web, Sun Microsystems Inc., Web browser

Discussion threads 2005-10-05