What is Application Offloading?

What is Application Offloading?

What is Application Offloading?

Application Offloading provides secure access to both internal and publicly hosted web applications. Application Offloading can be used in any of the following scenarios:

•  In conjunction with the Web Application Firewall subscription service to provide the offloaded web application continuous protection from malicious web attacks.
•  To function as an SSL offloader and add HTTPS support to the offloaded web application, using the integrated SSL accelerator hardware of the SSL-VPN appliance.
•  To add strong or stacked authentication to the offloaded web application, including two-factor authentication, One Time Passwords and client certificate authentication.
•  To control granular access to the offloaded web application using global, group or user based access policies.
•  To support web applications for remote access not currently supported by HTTP/HTTPS bookmarks.

Application Offloading does not require URL rewriting, thereby delivering complete application functionality without compromising throughput.