SonicWALL SSL VPN Features and Benefits

SonicWALL SSL VPN appliances for small to medium businesses are simple to deploy and manage. Offering easy remote access and optional remote support, SonicWALL SSL VPNs provide distributed and mobile employees, partners and customers with secure access to mission-critical network resources at an extremely affordable price. By making secure remote access easy-to-implement for small and mid-sized businesses, SonicWALL SSL VPNs help you maximize ROI, decrease IT costs and increase network security

SSL VPN CLIENTLESS CONNECTIVITY

The Internet has made it possible for remote workers to travel the world and still have access to the network, from virtually anyplace in the world. Your authorized employees, partners or trusted clients can use SonicWALL SSL VPN to securely plug into your network from home, the road, or even from on top of a remote mountain retreat. It doesn't matter, as long as there's Internet access and a Web browser available.

NETEXTENDER TECHNOLOGY

The beauty of SSL VPN is that it does not require a "fat" client to be installed on each remote workstation. This allows for a much greater level of flexibility and a much broader level of access. Using a standard Web browser, remote users launch a personalized Web portal for access to e-mail, files, applications, and internal Web sites (Intranet). There are some applications where a fat client may bring some advantages, however, and IPSec may be used especially in areas where there are only a smaller number of remote workstations that are tightly controlled and managed by the IT administrator. The advantage of the client-based VPN system is that a greater level of access can be allowed. Now, users can have the best of both worlds with SonicWALL NetExtender technology.

PERSONALIZED PORTAL

The personalized portal serves two purposes; first, it displays only those assets that each user is authorized to access based on corporate policy, and second, it provides an easy to use interface to make the end-user experience simple and straightforward.

REMOTE APPLICATION SUPPORT

The SonicWALL SSL VPN provides access to virtually any application, providing remote end users with the broadest level of access of any SSL VPN solution. Many corporations already publish applications via Citrix® servers or Microsoft Terminal servers within the corporate network. The SonicWALL SSL VPN extends access to these applications beyond the corporate network to remote users.

SEAMLESS INTEGRATION

Regardless of whether you choose a SonicWALL gateway appliance or a third-party firewall, remote access is as easy as can be. Because the SSL VPN appliance operates separate from the firewall function, the SonicWALL SSL VPN series is compatible with virtually any firewall on the market. And unlike other VPN solutions, there is no "fat" client requirement for the workstation. The remote worker only needs to have a standard Web browser; from there, they simply log into their personalized SSL VPN Web portal to gain access to e-mail, files, applications, or internal Web sites.

EASY WEB MANAGEMENT

The Web Management Interface is simple to deploy and manage. The easy-to-use GUI makes configuration, monitoring and updating the appliance and user policies easy and straightforward. In addition, the administrator can take advantage of the granular policy configuration capabilities to gain complete control over user access to resources.

POLICY CONFIGURATION »

The concept of the SSL VPN is to allow remote users to gain access to the network from any location. But all users are different. Traveling executives may need access to sensitive corporate data, while at the same time, you may wish to allow a partner access to the VPN, but want to restrict that partner's access to only viewing an inventory database. SonicWALL SSL VPN appliances work at the application layer and therefore allow you to lock down each remote user to specific applications and resources, to prevent unauthorized access, and to make sure that those users have access to only what is allowed by corporate policy.

ENHANCED LAYERED SECURITY

The SonicWALL SSL VPN appliance can be deployed with virtually any firewall successfully. But when deployed with a SonicWALL network security appliance, you get enhanced layered security and deep packet inspection technology, to fully inspect all traffic for content-based threats such as viruses, worms, Trojans, spyware and other malicious threats.

TOKENLESS TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

One of the many enhanced features found in SonicWALL SSL VPN is end-user authentication, which is provided through an internal database or through integration with one of many dynamic authentication methods, including Vasco, RSA1, Active Directory, RADIUS and LDAP. In addition, all appliances offer tokenless two factor authentication as part of the standard feature set.

SONICWALL VIRTUAL ASSIST

SonicWALL Virtual Assist1 opens up the possibility for a technician to provide on-demand technical assistance for laptop or desktop issues to a customer via a Web browser. The elimination of the need to pre-install a "fat" client makes the experience less frustrating and time consuming for both parties. This results in faster time-to-resolution thereby increasing customer satisfaction as well as technician productivity. The end result is an opportunity to grow your business. This appliance-based solution is distinguished by the fact that it seamlessly integrates into an existing network and authentication infrastructure. The solution does not require complicated policies to be set on your primary firewall or Unified Threat Management (UTM) gateway devices. Additionally, granular policy controls on the SSL VPN appliance can be used to enforce local or external authentication for technicians.

Compare SonicWALL SSL VPN Models

SonicWALL SSL VPN appliances can provide small and mid-size organizations with easy-to-use, secure and affordable remote access and remote support solutions that requires no pre-installed client software. Utilizing a standard Web browser, authorized users such as employees, contractors, partners and customers, can easily and securely access e-mail, files, intranets, Web and legacy applications and remote desktops from any location.

Legend : Standard Feature

 

 

Deployment	SSL-VPN 200	SRA 4200	SSL-VPN 4000
Type & Size of Deployment Environment	Small organizations up to 50 employees	Mid-size organizations up to 500 employees	Mid-size organizations over 500 employees.
Recommended Maximum Number of Concurrent Remote Users	10	50	200
Concurrent Remote User License	Unrestricted	Unrestricted	Unrestricted
Maximum Number of Virtual Assist Concurrent Technician Connections	N/A	5	25
Key Features	SSL-VPN 200	SRA 4200	SSL-VPN 4000
Tokenless Two-factor Authentication
Vasco Support
NetExtender: Mac & Linux Clients
Port-based Policies
NetExtender Mobile
Citrix (ICA) Support
Optional Client Certificate Support
Graphical Usage Monitoring
Option to Create System Backup
Reverse Proxy: OWA Premium Version
RADIUS Test Function
Active Directory Groups Support
Virtual Host and Domain Name Support
FileShares Java Applet
Diagnostics: DNS Lookup and Traceroute
SonicWALL® Virtual Assist
Reverse Proxy: Java Applet and Flash Support
Customizable Logos, Certificates and IP Add per Portal
HTTP(S) Caching
Remote GZIP Compression
RSA Support
IPv6 Support

 

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