A business continuity solution for secure & seamless remote working

We are living in uncertain times amidst a global pandemic. Organizations are taking all measures to ensure safety of their employees and customers, while maintaining business continuity. As part of this effort, organizations are adopting new ways of working. With the majority of the workforce locked down in their homes, the need of the hour for enterprises is to enable these employees to deliver their responsibilities remotely, in other words, make the employee’s home a ‘new branch office’.

Wipro’s #WANFreedom, a secured SD-WAN solution, ensures that users get seamless access to authorized applications irrespective of their location - office or home. The secure internet access ensures that users have the right level of protection and apply the same policy while they are on the campus, branch or working from home.

Home is the New Branch

‘Home is the New Branch’ solution, delivered with #WANFreedom, enables secure remote access to the work-from-home users, who are originally connected to their enterprise network. This gives the remote users seamless and secure access to the applications sitting at cloud and private cloud data centers.

While the user is at the branch, security is ensured by the branch edge SD-WAN part of the #WANfreedom secure network. The user is allowed in the corporate local area network with an active directory-based authentication. Once the user is authenticated, the access to all applications is controlled via WAN segmentation and application policy as part of SD-WAN solution.

Wipro’s Home is the New Branch solution ensures the same level of access and security even at home. The secure tunnel which gets established from the user machine to the secure cloud over the internet creates a micro-tunnel to enable access to the authorized app for a given user. This ensures corporate apps have protected usage, which is achieved using secure authentication of the user to the secure internet cloud.

High-level architecture of Home is the New Branch solution

Key highlights of the solution

• Secure remote access
• Protected access to corporate applications
• Compliance enforcement for home users
• Native app segmentation
• Works with or without corporate enterprise SD-WAN solution

Office wireless experience at home

Home is the New Branch solution enables Office Wireless Experience at Home, which provides office SSID and Wi-Fi experience at Home. This is enabled with a special Wireless Access Point (WAP) at home, which automatically creates an IPSEC tunnel to the headquarters and enables access to corporate or cloud applications. The WAP is completely controlled and managed by the Wi-Fi solution for the corporate local area network.

This ensures:

• Seamless user policy     
• Complete visibility for the user traffic and application
• Office like experience with home broadband
• Access to corporate applications through secure tunnel with protected access
• Internet traffic via local break-out through home broadband

Office wireless experience at home 

Empowering remote workforce

Wipro, along with its strategic partners, stand committed to support our valued customers in these uncertain times to deliver and enable business continuity services on priority. Wipro’s managed services and global services delivery model is fully equipped to support organizations to run their business with minimum disruption.

Wipro’s Insightix^TM based consulting approach will help you select the right access methodology and design for the Remote Working solution.