SonicWALL E-Class SRA EX7000

Overview:

Easy, Secure and Clientless Remote Access for the Enterprise

With maturing mobile technologies, booming global markets and heightened focus on disaster preparedness, remote access control has become a business imperative. IT is now mandated with providing secure remote access that is easy for users and cost-effective to implement. Client-based VPNs can be cumbersome to use and manage. SonicWALL® Aventail® E-Class Secure Remote Access (SRA) solutions deliver a complete remote access control solution, without escalating infrastructure costs or complexity. SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRA provides complete application access with full security, control of the endpoint and unified policy management. This easy-to-use, easy-to-control solution increases productivity by providing employees and extranet business partners with secure, clientless access to the resources they need from any device, anywhere, with the unmatched security of SSL VPN.

This solution is a part of SonicWALL’s new E-Class—a line of premium, enterprise-class solutions offering outstanding protection and performance while delivering elegant simplicity and unparalleled value. The E-Class portfolio of products and services includes a comprehensive line of network security, e-mail security and secure remote access solutions.

Features & Benefits:

• Increases productivity. SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRA works in more places, including home PCs, kiosks, PDAs and unmanaged devices over wired and wireless networks. SonicWALL Aventail SRA makes your users more productive by providing easy access to more applications from more environments—including Windows®, Linux®, Macintosh® and mobile devices— than any other secure access solution.
• Lowers IT overhead and total cost of ownership. SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRA lowers IT costs by enabling network managers to easily 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—including Web-based, client/server and host-based applications. SonicWALL Aventail SRAs are clientless or use lightweight Web delivered clients, reducing management overhead and support calls.
• Easy-to-use from any endpoint. SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRA technology provides transparent access to network resources from any network environment or device. A SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPN provides a single gateway for all access and a common user experience across all platforms—including Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Mobile, Linux and Macintosh—from managed or unmanaged devices. An award-winning anti-spam engine coupled with end-to-end attack monitoring ensures the most effective and current protection from spam attacks.
• Robust mobile solution. SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRA provides the most robust secure access solutions for mobile PDAs and smartphones, featuring Session Persistence across office, home or mobile IP addresses without re-authentication.
• Access to all application platforms. SonicWALL Aventail Smart Tunneling™ delivers fast and easy access to all applications—whether they are Web-based, client/server, server-based or host-based—over a unique architecture that combines the application layer control of SSL with the reach of a Layer 3 tunnel.
• Supports VoIP and remote help desk. SonicWALL Aventail Smart Tunneling™ provides granular, bidirectional access control for back-connect applications like VoIP and remote help desk.
• Eliminates routing conflicts. Adaptive addressing and routing dynamically adapts to networks, eliminating addressing and routing conflicts common with other solutions.
• Single access gateway. SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRA gives network managers a single secure access gateway for all users, internal and external, to all resources with complete control. Administrators have even greater control over portal access, content and design with the newly-enhanced SonicWALL WorkPlace Portal.
• Rapid set-up and deployment. All SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRAs are easily set-up and deployed in just minutes. The redesigned SonicWALL Aventail’s Set-up Wizard provides an easy, intuitive “out- of-the-box” experience with rapid set-up and deployment. Improved management workflow makes it much easier to understand and manage policy objects.
• Easy-to-control with Unified Policy Management. SonicWALL Aventail Unified Policy™ offers easy object based policy management of all users, groups, resources and devices, while enforcing granular control based on both user authentication and end point interrogation. Policy Zones can ensure unauthorized access is denied, or quarantined for remediation.

Application & Deployment:

Detect the security of any endpoint:

Robust interrogation for secure control of the endpoint:

Only SonicWALL Aventail End Point Control™ (EPC™) lets you enforce granular access control rules for Windows®, Windows Vista, Windows Mobile, Macintosh and Linux endpoints. EPC combines pre-authentication interrogation to confirm endpoint criteria like anti-virus updates. SonicWALL Aventail Policy Zones™ apply detected endpoint criteria to automated policy enforcement. For example, a user’s access may be quarantined—and redirected to remediation instructions—until a security patch is installed. Device Watermarks allow easy access revocation of lost or stolen devices, based upon detection of client certificates. SonicWALL Aventail’s Virtual Keyboard stops keystroke sniffers on untrusted endpoints. SonicWALL Recurring EPC performs endpoint scans at user login and at administrator-defined intervals to ensure the ongoing integrity of any endpoint.

Advanced EPC for ultimate protection:

Optional SonicWALL Aventail Advanced EPC™ combines granular endpoint control detection with superior data protection. Advanced Interrogator simplifies device profile set-up using a comprehensive predefined list of antivirus, personal firewall and anti-spyware solutions for Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms, including version and currency of signature file update. Cache Control purges browser cache, session history, cookies and passwords. Secure Desktop creates a virtual encrypted environment that prevents sensitive information from being left behind. SonicWALL E-Class Aventail SRAs also block suspect e-mail attachments in Outlook Web Access or Lotus iNotes, or block access to financial data or patient records. On SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPNs, connections are closed by default, providing “deny all” firewall-style protection.

Protect your enterprise resources with ease:

Streamlined policy management:

With its context-sensitive help and Setup Wizard, a SonicWALL Aventail E-Class Secure Remote Access appliance is easy to set-up and deploy. The extensible, object-based SonicWALL Aventail Unified Policy™ model consolidates control of all Web resources, file shares and client-server resources in a single location, so that policy management can take only minutes. Groups can be populated dynamically based on RADIUS, ACE, LDAP or Active Directory authentication repositories, including nested groups. SonicWALL Aventail SRAs support Single Sign-On (SSO) and forms-based Web applications. And users can easily update their own passwords without IT assistance. Also, SonicWALL Aventail Policy Replication lets IT easily replicate policy across multiple appliance nodes, either in the same cluster or in a geographically-distributed fashion. One-Time Password (OTP) support provides a built-in method to generate and distribute secondary factors, for easy and cost-effective two-factor authentication. Administrators can associate OTPs by Realm for greater flexibility in authentication control.

Intuitive management and reporting:

The SonicWALL Aventail Management Console™ provides a rich, centralized set of monitoring capabilities for auditing, compliance, management and resource planning. Optional Aventail Advanced Reporting™ audits who accessed what enterprise resources, at what time, from which remote location, using standard or custom reports that can be accessed from any Web browser. Visual tools provide real-time information on system state and direct, intuitive options for managing system objects. Enhanced user monitoring features streamline auditing and troubleshooting of current and historical user activity. Administrators can easily view or filter activity by user, time, throughput, realm, community, zone, agents or IP address.

SonicWALL Aventail E-Class Remote Access Solution provides secure access for all users, devices and applications.

Connect users to resources—simply and seamlessly:

Broadest application access from the most endpoints:

SonicWALL Aventail E-Class Secure Remote Access appliances deliver intelligent access to Web-based, client/server, server-based, host-based and back-connect applications such as VoIP. SonicWALL Aventail SRAs work seamlessly across Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Mobile, Linux or Macintosh platforms, from desktops, laptops, kiosks, PDAs and smartphones, as well as application-to-application. This significantly increases productivity, while reducing support costs. From the user’s perspective, SonicWALL Aventail Smart Access™ dynamically determines and deploys the appropriate access method and security level based on the type and state of the device, user identity and resources needed. Zone-based provisioning enables administrators to extend control over what access agents are deployed based upon the remote user’s End Point Control classification. Adaptive addressing and routing dynamically adapts to networks, eliminating conflicts. Smart Access streamlines installation and activation of any required agents on Windows devices according to Microsoft standards.

Clientless Web-based access or full “in-office” experience:

SonicWALL Aventail E-Class Secure Remote Access appliances offer both clientless browser-based access and full access to client/server and legacy applications from Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Mobile, Macintosh and Linux environments. SonicWALL Aventail WorkPlace™ delivers a policy-driven, device-optimized Web portal that provides easy access to Web-based and client/server applications from desktops, laptops, PDAs, smartphones, even from wireless hotspots and kiosks. Users can define shortcuts to frequently-used resources. Workplace can be customized with different logos and color schemes for partners and employees. SonicWALL Aventail WorkPlace access is well-suited for devices not managed by your organization. SonicWALL Aventail Connect™ access delivers an “in-office” experience for Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Mobile, Macintosh and Linux users, enabling full access to client/server and Web-based applications and all other network resources. Enabled through a lightweight, Web-deployable agent, or through an easily-provisioned standard MSI installation, SonicWALL Aventail Connect is ideal for full access from IT-managed devices that require strong desktop security, splittunneling control and personal firewall detection. SonicWALL Aventail Smart Tunneling™ offers a Layer 3 technology that supports UDP, TCP and IP protocols, and back-connect applications like VoIP. In NAT mode, no set-up of IP address pools is required.

A solution customized to your users’ needs:

Optional SonicWALL Aventail Native Access Modules™ offer additional native access to Windows Terminal Services, as well as native support for load-balanced Citrix farm environments via the WorkPlace Portal as an alternative to expensive Citrix nFuse implementations. SonicWALL Aventail Host Access Modules™ directly integrate industry-leading AttachmateWRQ terminal emulation with the SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRA to access a wide range of host-based applications in IBM, UNIX and OpenVMS environments.

Most complete access solution for mobile devices:

SonicWALL Aventail Secure Remote Access appliances offers Web- and client-based access to critical network resources from any wireless network environment with complete security and control, including Windows Mobilepowered devices, Symbian smartphones, DoCoMo iMode devices and WAP-enabled devices. SonicWALL Aventail SRA solutions provide centralized management of all devices with granular access control and the ability to prohibit access from the device if it’s lost or stolen. And with Session Persistence, mobile users can have the flexibility to retain a current session as they switch between networks—on the go between office, commute, home and hotel—without needing to re-authenticate.

Reliable high availability and flexibility:

For added reliability, SonicWALL Aventail E-Class Secure Remote Access appliances offer active/active high availability (HA) with integrated load balancing and active/active stateful failover on the SRA EX7000 and EX6000, eliminating the added cost of a third-party load balancer. And with an optional Aventail Spike License Pack, you can temporarily and cost-effectively increase your remote user count to the maximum capacity of those SonicWALL Aventail appliances for disaster recovery or planned business cycle peaks, whether it’s a few dozen or a few thousand additional users.

The clear business choice:

SonicWALL Aventail E-Class Secure Remote Access appliances include the award-winning EX Series of SSL VPN appliances, offering your business the best solution for secure remote access control. With SonicWALL, you can enhance your enterprise network security, increase your mobile workforce productivity for greater return on investment (ROI) and reduce IT overhead for a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). SonicWALL’s best-of-breed technology gives you flexible access options for disaster recovery and supports easy audits to help you comply with Sarbanes- Oxley, HIPAA, Basel 2 and other regulatory requirements, even during unexpected business disruptions. And SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRA appliances make an ideal replacement strategy for IPSec VPNs. From any business perspective, SonicWALL is the easy choice for secure access.

Specifications:

*Based on installing DC conversion kit in the field

Documentation:

 SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SRA Series Datasheet (.PDF)