The LANDesk Cloud Services Appliance (formerly called the LANDesk Gateway Appliance) is a hardware appliance installed the TAB Data Center that allows clients off campus to communicate back to the LANDesk Core Server without using VPN.
Key Features
- Gathers hardware and software inventory from up to 4,000 active connections simultaneously
- Performs on-demand remote control
- Monitors software licenses
- Accesses policy-based software distribution
- Performs patch management
- Executes anti-spyware management
- Carries out antivirus enforcement and management
- Manages security threats
- Blocks applications
- Enables bidirectional management traffic for:
- Inventory and software license monitoring
- Software distribution and application policy
- Vulnerability detection
- Configuration security maintenance and patch management
Security
- Uses certificate-based authentication and SSL encryption over any existing Internet connection to let you securely manage users anytime, anywhere
- Sends all data with SSL encoding
- Allows clients to access the core server only in order to maintain the security of the corporate firewall
- Secure Architecture
- Features a hardened Linux kernel
- Includes certificate-based authentication
- Offers a dual-SSL session architecture
- Includes a system file integrity scanner
- Features a built-in firewall, so you don’t need to make changes to the corporate firewall
- Includes logging capabilities
