Employees of the German Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit - BA) are now able to connect to a central server of their agency when working remotely from a mobile workstation (MWS). Using top-notch remote access VPN technologies, they are now able to use all specialized applications. In the Virtual Private Network (VPN) tried and tested security mechanisms are responsible for the required confidentiality in the Wide Area Network (WAN). Introducing a new remote access VPN solution in 2009, BA, wanted to optimize remote access via VPN for on-call duties, remote use of technol- ogy and teleworking. Apart from being able to access email programs and word processors, all employees should be able to access all of the agency’s specialized IT processes which the

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