What is ViPNet OFFICE?

Today's businesses are increasingly confronted with complex communication and security problems. Local and remote users as well as numerous office branches need stable and secure ways to communicate with each other.

In ViPNet OFFICE, several secure communication tools are integrated into the VPN client to optimize the productivity of the user. The software-based VPN in ViPNet OFFICE assures a secure and highly encrypted Virtual Private Network (VPN) that doesn't interfere with the existing network structure and doesn't decrease network performance. The implementation is fast and unobtrusive.

The benefits of installing a VPN are to ensure the integrity of all data connections and to secure the network against malicious attacks from in and outside your own network (except TUNNEL). These security measures are deployed via software modules installed on all computers in the network (workstations as well as servers). These modules control the whole TCP/IP traffic by encrypting and/or filtering it. As a result, if any computer with ViPNet software (the computer may be outside the network or inside a protected network fragment) connects with another ViPNet computer, the connection becomes encrypted at once. The connection is isolated from any outside connections. This way, a virtual private network is created - a group of computers connected with each other over the Internet supporting extensive security for specific services or for the whole traffic.

By using the term 'network', we mean all TCP/IP networks, including LANs, the Internet or other networks; independent of the technology a client uses to connect to a network. ViPNet technology is compatible with practically all Internet accesses (including xDSL, ISDN, GPRS and UMTS).

Usually, classic VPN solutions only focus on the security of the traffic between two LANs or between a LAN and a remote (mobile) user. Because of the full support of real client-to-client connections and the integration of a firewall and IDS system in each VPN object, ViPNet OFFICE secures the traffic between remote locations as well as the traffic between VPN users in the local network, eg, the internal, trusted network zone is often underestimated as a security treat.

The core of ViPNet software is the ViPNet driver. The main function of the ViPNet driver is to filter incoming and outgoing IP packets.

Each outgoing IP packet will be treated by one of the following rules:

IP packet is sent as is (ie. not encrypted)
IP packet is blocked
IP packet is encrypted and sent
IP packed is encrypted and forwarded.

Each incoming packet will be treated by one of the following rules:

IP packet is passed (filtering rules allow this passing for non-encrypted traffic)
IP packet is blocked (in accordance with specified filtering rules)
IP packet is decrypted (if the packet was encrypted) and passed to a corresponding application.

The ViPNet driver is placed above the third layer of the OSI model (network layer), allowing it to edit IP packets before they reach the higher TCP/IP and eventually, the application layer, ViPNet.

The ViPNet OFFICE solution secures the IP traffic of each application, without distracting the user from their usual workflow.