Government organizations are becoming increasingly connected not just with other government agencies via traditional WAN links, but also with citizens that want access to available information over the Internet. But providing access creates some unique security challenges for CIO's and their IT administrators. Besides keeping bad content out and letting good content in, governments need to protect their national or local security and access to sensitive information while also enforcing internet usage policies internally without restricting legitimate activity.
- comply with governmental regulations
- reduce the cost of building and maintaining a WAN infrastructure without compromising application delivery
- see all the applications and users on the network
- secure the WAN against malicious content and applications that might corrupt the network
- accelerate the application performance of material and content to all constituents and other governmental branches
- control users, devices, content and enterprise applications centrally to identify non-critical applications and set usage policies
