Southwest Airlines Selects V-ONE for VPN

February 25, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- V-ONE Corporation (v-one.com), a leading provider of VPN security products, announced on Monday that Southwest Airlines has deployed V-ONE’s SmartGate client/server software to secure communications for 35 of its remote marketing offices.

Using V-ONE’s VPN technology, says the company, Southwest Airlines’ off-site employees can take advantage of centrally located network resources via the Internet, with the same level of security seen by employees in Southwest’s Dallas headquarters.

"We needed a straightforward, secure and economical way to enable our remote users to telecommute over the Internet," says Eric Jorgensen, Southwest's Manager of the Intel OS Services & Solutions Team. "We looked at a number of site-to-site IPSec VPNs and determined that SmartGate was the one that met all our requirements.”

SmartGate, says V-ONE, was engineered to address the security needs of enterprises operating in business critical environments. The product authenticates users, encrypts communications channels and provides flexible access controls for client-to-application security.

The V-ONE client can run either as a non-intrusive application on the end user’s desktop, or as a Java applet on a browser, providing VPN connection services to the SmartGate server. V-ONE’s On-Line Registration, designed for rapid software deployment to large numbers of end users, automates the distribution of authentication keys and access controls using a secure channel. User IDs can be generated automatically without administrative interaction.

V-ONE technology, says the company, is equipped to work with all major firewalls, and supports multiple third party authentication systems. It also works on a range of clients, including wireless devices.