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 doesnt matter, as
long as theres 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 partners
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.