SSL VPN Case Study
The hospital's tech partner and integrator, Emerging Systems, teamed with Nortel Networks to come up with a slightly left-of-field but secure, low maintenance and lower cost option for the hospital -- a secure sockets layer virtual private network.
Already widely used in e-commerce and the financial sector, SSL VPNs have been called the "de facto standard" for securing credit card transactions and online banking. The SSL protocol was developed by Netscape in 1994 as a security mechanism built into the Navigator browser.
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