The Secure Remote Access Virtual Appliance and Aventail E-Class SRA Virtual Appliance help boost SMB security.
Intelligent network-security
and data-protection solutions specialist SonicWall announced the availability of
the Secure Remote Access Virtual Appliance and Aventail E-Class SRA Virtual
Appliance. The appliances add to the existing SSL VPN small and midsize
business and enterprise-class hardware lineup and further expand the company's
virtualized appliance offerings that include management, reporting and e-mail
security. Combining scalability and reliability, the Secure Sockets Layer VPN
solutions are aimed at midmarket companies looking to secure an expanding
mobile workforce.
The SRA Virtual Appliance
and Aventail E-Class SRA Virtual Appliance represent the company's new platform
for installing and maintaining SSL VPNs for businesses of varying sizes. The
SSL VPN solutions provide secure access to critical applications and resources
through the use of endpoint control.
The Aventail solution
provides the ability to identify the user and interrogate the endpoint. Based
on the information collected, the SSL VPN solution provides the proper level of
access to network resources and confidential data based on the policies defined
by the security administrator. Once purchased, the solutions are customizable
and require no dedicated hardware. In addition to cost-savings, the preconfigured
solution is designed to reduce complexity with simplified product selection,
product integration and ongoing product support.
To complement the existing
SSL VPN hardware lineup, the SRA Virtual Appliances contain many of the same
features, enabling network managers to deploy and manage a single secure access
gateway that extends remote access via SSL VPN for both internal and external
users to all network resources. This includes Web-based, client/server,
host-based and back-connect applications such as voice over IP.
In addition, the virtual
appliances are designed to help grant the administrator the insight needed to
provide employees, partners and clients with secure remote access to specific
and defined resources, according to the needs of each remote user and provide
secure access from more places, including IT issued laptops, home PCs, kiosks,
smartphones and tablet devices.
"Virtualization
adoption is fundamental for companies to stay efficient. By virtualizing
sophisticated SSL VPN Remote Access Solutions, companies can drive down costs
and respond to scaling needs by right sizing their hardware capacities at
will," said Patrick Sweeney, vice president of product management and
corporate marketing at SonicWall. "Even faced with the massive adoption of
anytime, anywhere access driven by new mobile devices, companies can now
enforce corporate access policy, maintain security and save precious budgets."
Nathan Eddy is Associate Editor, Midmarket, at eWEEK.com. Before joining eWEEK.com, Nate was a writer with ChannelWeb and he served as an editor at FierceMarkets. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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