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BIG-IP^® Secure Access Manager^™

Users want to connect from everywhere: homes, airports, hotel rooms, coffee shops, kiosks, business centers and vehicles. They are demanding secure application access while having fast accelerated speeds at all hours of the day. They don't want to go through a difficult process to connect into business applications.

Enterprises today have a growing need for simplified and unified access control to provide end-to-end data protection along with identity and access management. They depend on a multitude of systems and processes to provide secure access from different locations. Administrators are tasked with defining and deploying multiple product policies to manage functions including: endpoint security checks and control; remediation; access logon; and authentication, authorization, and application access control.

BIG-IP^® Secure Access Manager^™ is a high-performance, flexible security platform, providing a unified secure access solution on a single appliance. Using SSL technology for encrypted traffic, BIG-IP Secure Access Manager provides policy-based, secure access to enterprise applications for any client user-from employees, contractors, partners, suppliers and customers to any corporate resource. BIG IP Secure Access Manager provides end-to-end data protection for secured web application client connectivity to enterprise applications.

Identity and Access Management

BIG-IP Secure Access Manager provides identity verification and secure connectivity to corporate applications from any access networks. In addition BIG-IP SAM provides policy enforcement by protecting both users and back-end applications with pre-logon inspection, end-user/machine authentication, L3-L4 Access Control Lists (ACLs). This flexible, easy-to-manage, high-performance platform uses SSL technology to provide secure access to any user from any location and any client device.

Supports a Wide Variety of Applications and Devices

BIG-IP Secure Access Manager provides fast access management to business applications from a wide range of client devices, including Windows Mobile devices. Using full-tunnel SSL technology and client access policies, system administrators can maintain complete, granular control over defining access control policies and accompanying profiles. You can create comprehensive policies for endpoint security lockdown and establish authentication and authorization methods for enterprise application access.

Acceleration, Scalability and Performance all in one identity and access management solution

The combination of a high-performance operating system with advanced and unified secure access features provides a complete solution in a single appliance. The tight integration of BIG-IP Secure Access Manager with an integrated architecture supports a unified network access management system with the capability of supporting up to 25,000 concurrent users on a single appliance with high performance.

BIG-IP Secure Access Manager verifies the identity of the user and accelerates the connection with compression enhancing and improving the user experience. Also, a Visual Policy Editor is provided to give you tremendous flexibility in how you organize, scale, and apply access control to your applications, not just the network. The Visual Policy Editor reduces the setup and deployment time for enterprise-wide security enforcement, reduces operator errors, and mitigates business risk, resulting in reduced operating and capital expenses. Virtual Access Policy Management provides each virtual instance with unique policies tied to every landing URI.

BIG-IP Secure Access Manager is only available as a standalone version.

BIG-IP Product Modules:

• Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
• Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
• Link Controller (LC)
• Application Security Manager (ASM)
• Secure Access Manager (SAM) standalone version
• WebAccelerator (WA)