Terminologies

Access Control: Allows access to the application in accordance to corporate policies. Access control can be applied to user and application groups.

Access Filter: A time filter that can be applied to user(s) and/or application group(s) to provide access during a designated time.

Administrator: A privileged user for managing users and services.

Application Group: Applications can be grouped in accordance to policies or functional groups. Further to that access filter can be applied to these groups.

Endpoint Policy: Endpoint Policy is to define the security rules to be scanned for on End user machine in conjunction with Endpoint Profile.

Device Profile: Device Profiles are used to organize applications on the basis of end user machine profile. Device Profiles overrides (or say restricts) the applications access over the applications in the Application Groups.

Basic Authentication: A mechanism to authenticate user credentials using standard authentication protocols, such as LDAP, RADIUS, AD, etc.

LDAP: The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol(LDAP) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.

RADIUS: Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol, operating on port 1812[1] that provides centralized Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA or Triple A) management for users who connect and use a network service.

AD: Active Directory (AD) is a directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems as a set of processes and services.Initially, Active Directory was only in charge of centralized domain management. Starting with Windows Server 2008, however, Active Directory became an umbrella title for a broad range of directory-based identity-related services.

Bootstrap: A process for first time configuration of Accops VPN. In this process the first security officer (designated certification authority) is enrolled.

Certificate Authentication: A mechanism to authenticate the user based on client Certificate. The Certificate is issued to a power user during enrollment.

Security Officer (SO): The most privileged user of the system. Only first security officer is responsible for bootstrapping the server and enrolling other security officer and administrators.

User Group: Users can be grouped in accordance to policies or functional groups. Further to that access filter can be applied to these groups.

UAC: The Universal Application Connector is an Active-X control that makes the applications you run using Accops VPN secure.

NB: The UAC works only with Internet Explorer version 6.0 and higher; it does not support other browsers.