Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 provides remote access to applications, networks, and internal resources from diverse client endpoints. You can allow access to multiple internal applications through a single IAG portal, or to a single Web application. Endpoint security management enables policy-based access control, user authentication, and portal application authorisation. IAG provides content inspection and deep application-level filtering. It blocks potentially malicious traffic with positive-logic and negative-logic rules that identify errant commands and syntax, and it reduces the immediacy of server software updates by providing protection from zero-day attacks.

Because IAG is application aware, it can address application-specific issues, including security concerns and functionality requirements. This ability enables organisations to customize the behaviour of specific applications when accessed remotely. IAG provides out-of-the-box support for key applications. Out-of-the-box support is optimized for each application type, including features such as URL inspection, wiping out of sensitive information that might be recorded by Web browsers when connecting to an IAG server, and more. In addition, the application-aware approach provides tools and interfaces that allow you to define settings which are not supported out-of-the-box for each application individually.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
IAG provides secure, Web-based access to internal applications and data, including the following:

• Differentiated and policy-driven access to network, server, and data resources.
• Flexible application-intelligent SSL VPN connections from many devices and locations.
• Highly granular access and security policy enforced at the session, application, and functionality levels.
• Comprehensive user authentication.
• Customisable, identity-based Web portal with single sign-on.
• Handling of embedded browser applications.
• Connectivity and control for client/server and legacy applications

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