Maintaining remote services and resources over the Internet and other networks

Many organizations are discovering the need to protect themselves with isolation routers, firewalls, and other technologies. Simultaneously they are collaborating more and more with external organizations. When local services and resources must be shared externally, problems arise. Servers at remote locations can provide copies of local services and resources. Offering services and resources via remote servers means that the home organization must also control access to these services and resources. This paper defines a remote node architecture (RNA) that can house multiple services and resources. The RNA provides secure communications between the remote node and the home organization for all services and resources, and between the RNA services and resources and the users thereof.