Mycroft

Challenge:

Extranets are the prevalent method for businesses to connect their mobile employees, vendors, partners and customers with internal resources. Regrettably, the remote access advantages afforded by traditional extranets are encumbered by serious security, cost, and deployment issues.

Among the challenges: the provision of information and applications in the supply chain is often stalled by the strict control mechanisms designed to ensure enterprise data protection. Any organization seeking to deploy sensitive data and applications must ensure consistency of data, security policies and data access as well as implementing methods to track and record access to this data. In addition, the integration of disparate multi–vendor technologies such as VPNs, commercial identity servers and point–to–point connections is a slow, costly, complex process and often prone to errors.

Traditional methods to achieve the desired level of data deployment have proven unstable or overly cumbersome. Requiring months to implement, traditional extranets are extremely expensive to build and maintain. Often, these technologies are limited to a small remote user group and local resources. As a result of the inherent limitations to traditional extranets, the potential benefits of the technology often remain unrealized.

Solution:

Mycroft provides the next generation of secure remote access and resource provisioning. The Mycroft Shared Working Environment provides a readily accessible, centralized web interface; and, through authentication, access control and secure data delivery mechanisms ensures security and integrity in data and application delivery. The system provides the security of a private network with the ease and flexibility of the Internet—allowing enterprises to rapidly realize the benefits of a secure extranet.

Partners, vendors, suppliers and customers can securely access local resources such as network file servers, email, and Web, UNIX, Client/Server and legacy applications though any standard Web browser. No specialized client hardware or software is required, keeping costs associated with rollout, training and support to a minimum.

The Mycroft Shared Working Environment is certified and used in the most demanding and security–conscious environments including government the major aerospace and defense contractors, major financial settlement companies, and other major manufacturing entities engaged in the transmittal of sensitive mission–critical data.

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