Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 is the name of it. Through using the VPN technologies of Whale Communications combined with Microsoft’s own Internet Security and Acceleration Server, Microsoft hopes that consumers will find this as a suitable product when it comes to communicating outside standard firewalls. But since its a Microsoft product, will it be under fire from hackers and malware? Only time will tell.

Microsoft has introduced a new product combining the Whale Communications virtual private networking (VPN) software it bought last year with the latest version of its Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server), the company said Wednesday.

Called the Intelligent Application Gateway 2007, (IAG 2007) the software will give remote users a way to access Outlook e-mail accounts as well as corporate applications while outside of the company firewall. Whale’s software uses the secure sockets layer (SSL) protocol and can be used to gain VPN access via the browser.[more]

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