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Interesting to note that it's been 1 year and 1 day since this issue was first brought up. Have to say - I really would have hoped for more progress in a year..... Good luck with the office move on the 16th... I just hope you guys don't need to rely on using mobile devices whilst you are doing it!!! Jeff ... View more

Just an update.... The following enterprise firewall vendors now have SSL VPN Solutions on the app store: Checkpoint Mobile - Checkpoint FortiMobile - Fortinet Junos Pulse - Juniper In addition - Cisco have 'Cisco Anyconnect' which I don't think is SSL VPN - but it's an application which makes VPN'ing from iphones easier than the standard iphone IPSEC support. All the above apps are provided FREE - these four guys are the main competitors to PA we come up against again and again. We are trying to sell PA firewalls, we do very well showing geeks the GUI - and what they can manage when at work. This always goes down extremely well. However, the inability of being able to manage any network infrastructure via iphone / ipad is a massive turn off - invariably when they need to get to the unit, they are not at work as it's an emergency etc. Not much point having a great GUI - if you can't get to it when you are out and about. It's very hard selling something to a CIO when his geeks are negative about it... I really, really hope PA get this addressed soon as it's become a major barrier to sales now - the 'no plans' message is the real killer, because it offers the potential customer no hope at all..... Jeff ... View more

Hmm... I promise I'm not being pedantic - but after a quick look.... F5 Firepass http://www.f5.com/products/firepass/ "FirePass provides robust, secure SSL VPN remote access to business applications from a wide range of client devices, including Apple iPhone and Windows Mobile devices." Juniper SA http://www.itp.net/581782-juniper-makes-vpns-a-snap-on-the-iphone " Juniper Networks has announced the release of its Junos Pulse app, which provides secure remote mobile access to corporate resources on an iPhone or iPod Touch. The app is now available to download via the Apple iTunes App Store." Fortinet Fortigate As you say - has PPTP at least (that's something eh?) Someone on the apple forums claims to have IPSEC working... http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1637208&tstart=-1 At least the other people in your list have either beta or some sort of solution (PPTP) - beta product out etc. I'm telling you this is a big deal - more and more users are now ditching their laptops for ipads!! Jeff ... View more

Thanks for the reply Lee. I think the real disappointment for us is that the top management here know that there is a large price premium for Palo Alto Networks products, and with that price premium, of course they expect 'the works'. Management talk to other management - and the 'Oh you can't VPN with your mobile device - why not?' comes up - only for yours truly to then get a memo the next day, enquiring why our premium PA based solution can't do what a free open source product can. Of course I am quick to come back with a big list of stuff the PA solution does so much better than anything else - but if people can't work remotely - it sort of doesn't really matter does it? With more remote workers, more mobile workers using mobile OS as mobile OS's are becoming more and more functional - I think that PA have dropped the ball on this one quite frankly. I now have to set up a PPTP VPN concentrator - one for each department / security zone, when we were hoping with our PA solution we would be removing Firewall / VPN hardware from our rack - not adding it! Not moaning - just sort of confused as to why PA don't think Mobile VPN is important in an increasingly mobile age.. Completely baffled! Jeff ... View more

Any more news on some sort of iphone version of netconnect for OS 4.0? We have a number of mobile users who used to take out Laptops on the road - and now want to take out ipads - and from what I have read - there is no way to connect an ipad / iphone to a PA Firewall due to the fact that there is no PPTP support, and that the iOS only supports Cisco IPSEC. So either an iphone app would really help me get ipad users / boss off my case! I guess if there was PPTP - that would solve everything, and would also enable us to allow other mobile devices such as Android devices.... Cheers, Jeff ... View more