SRA Virtual Appliance

SonicWall SRA Virtual Appliance

Product Overview : This new offering provides small- to medium-sized business with a hardened, Virtual Server for clientless remote access to business critical applications. SonicWALL Virtual Appliances significantly improve the efficiency and availability of resources and applications. Advanced security features enable your customers to securely extend their business and application resources to authorised remote users.

SUMMARY

In recent years, there has been an increased dependence on mobile workers. This has prompted a need for providing secure remote access to network resources as well as remote PC control. SonicWALL® provides a solution that meets the needs of organisations with demanding remote workforce requirements. SonicWALL Secure Remote Access (SRA) Series solutions, flexibly deployable as a hardware or a virtual appliance, are simple to implement and even easier to use for a fraction of the price of most other products.

Remote access has never been so simple to deploy and use. Mobile employees only require a standard browser to log into a customisable portal that provides access to email, files, Web applications and internal Web sites. For even more powerful capabilities such as secure access to any resource on the corporate network including servers and local applications, the appliances transparently push a downloadable thin client (NetExtender) to the user’s desktop or laptop. SonicWALL Virtual Assist/Virtual Access can be easily configured and licensed via the administrative interface as a cost-effective alternative to either traditional remote support tools or remote PC access productivity tools. Browser-based Virtual Assist thin clients can be pushed to technicians and customers to establish an interactive support session using SonicWALL SRA.

Alternatively, Virtual Access can increase productivity by enabling IT administrators or authorised end users to gain secure remote access to their unattended Windows-based computers from anywhere via SonicWALL SRA.

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Seamless integration behind virtually any firewall enables organisations to leverage the existing network infrastructure.

NetExtender technology enables network level access to resources, services and applications.

A personalised Web portal displays only the resources that are available to the user based on company policy.

Remote support using SonicWALL Virtual Assist enables technicians to provide secure on-demand assistance to customers while leveraging the existing infrastructure.

Remote PC control using SonicWALL Virtual Access enables administrators or authorised end users to gain secure remote control of their unattended Windows based computers from anywhere.

Web Application Firewall Service detects and protects Web applications (including the SSL VPN appliance itself) from Web-based attacks, reducing potential losses and adhering to data protection compliance mandates.

Tokenless two-factor authentication provides enhanced protection against key loggers by combininga unique one-time password generated by the SSL VPN appliance and sent to a remote user’s mobile device or email address, with the user’s network user name and password.

Mobile device support to access an entire intranet as well as Web-based applications provides greater flexibility for a remote workforce.

Load Balancing can be deployed to partition requests across multiple Web servers.

High Availability allows administrators to deploy an active-backup pair of appliances to enhance uptime while reliably providing security for remote access users.

Unified Policy displays granular bookmarks and policies in one centralized page, streamlining configuration, troubleshooting and administrative overhead. Administrators can easily create policies that can restrict user access to specific applications or resources, and prevent unauthorized access.

SonicWALL Clean VPN™ both secures the integrity of VPN access and decontaminates malicious threats before they can enter the corporate network through combined deployment with a SonicWALL firewall.