Nokia Corporation

Harri Suhonen

Ari Lassila

Jyrki Stenvall

The present invention relates to a method and a virtual private network (VPN) gateway serverproviding rules for wireless access over a secure tunnel connection to a corporate network. The corporate networkis protected by firewall functionality, with different access configurations for different remote users. The VPN gateway serverincludes a user databasewhich provides rules specific for each user for the access to the corporate networkusing the secure tunnel. The rules include specific sets of TCP ports associated with respective specific users. The gateway serverlimits an authenticated user's access to the corporate network, which access is performed by means of the tunnel connection provided by the gateway server, to the associated allowed TCP server ports.

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Helsinki, Finland

Harri Suhonen