Understanding Cisco Easy VPN

The Cisco Easy VPN solution simplifies the deployment of remote offices and teleworkers. Teleworkers, on the whole, represent one of the fastest growth areas of network users. The availability of high bandwidth at low cost is spurring a great deal of industry evolution. Along with this growth in remote connection requests comes a similar, if not greater, growth in security needs of the network.

Cisco Easy VPN serves to simplify client configuration and allow for a centralized management model of VPN Clients. This client configuration can be dynamically pushed to remote clients. Cisco Easy VPN provides a quick, efficient, and, most importantly, secure means of configuring VPN services for remote users of all kinds. It consists of two primary components, Easy VPN Remote and Easy VPN Server.

Using Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Mode Config functionality to push configuration parameters to clients, the clients can be preconfigured to conform to a set of IKE policies and IPsec transform sets. This ensures that all clients are up to date with the latest policies in place prior to establishing connections.