Abstract:
The Internet is a vital part of the business
world today. All large businesses are
connected to the Internet and use it for a
variety of purposes. Security however is a
major concern for any machine on the
Internet. Over the last several years there
have been many publicised security
breaches on the Internet allowing hackers
administrative access to highly
confidential data. As a result companies
are reluctant to allow remote access to
common application services. By blocking
such services on the Internet, worliflow is
greatly affected and working from remote
locations is made difficult.
Essentially, a secure and portable method
of allowing remote access to application
services across the Internet is required.
Snap (Secure Network Application Proxy)
is a utility application that wraps around
the network infrastructure of TCPIIP
based applications. It sits in between the
application client and server acting as a
data relay between the application client
and server.
Snap addresses security concerns by
encrypting all relayed data using
industrial strength cryptography. It can
interoperate with today's common
applications and thus can be considered a
tool that adds a secure framework to
TCPIIP applications. System
administrators are able to add security to
their critical applications so as to stem the
current trend of security breaches due to
application flaws. Snap complements
firewall technologies by adding security,
portability, flexibility, compatibility and
robustness to existing network
applications.
