SonicWALL Releases Aventail 10.5 & SRA 1200 Remote Access Security Solutions

August 2, 2010

These solutions are designed to help companies of all sizes easily administer and monitor employee access to information behind the firewall. The SonicWALL Aventail 10.5 represents a major software upgrade to existing enterprise class solutions, while the SonicWALL SRA 1200 is a new appliance tailored to SMB customers. SonicWALL's new offerings provide enterprise customers a feature-rich solution and enhanced smart phone support and also bring affordable, powerful features and protection to the SMB market.

SonicWALL's Aventail 10.5 release brings new enterprise features to the E-Class SRA series of clientless SSL VPN solutions. The solution provides secure access to corporate resources and supports thousands of concurrent users from a single appliance. The SonicWALL Aventail solution ties the unique mobile device ID to a specific user, confirms the user's identity and verifies the security status of the end-point. Once these security checks have been passed, the SonicWALL Aventail solution grants the appropriate level of access from any web-enabled device, including Internet kiosks, laptops, smart phones, tablet PCs or any other web enabled device. New features include Active Sync support for the Apple iPhone, iPad, Google Android and Symbian mobile devices and provides secure e-mail, contacts and calendar update synchronization with the corporate exchange server.

"Let's face it: everyone is mobile these days. We are connected and work whenever, wherever. Whether you like it or not – the corporate I.T. department has already lost control of what mobile devices we use and how we use them. This issue is known as the 'consumerization' of I.T.," said Patrick Sweeney, vice president of product management, SonicWALL. "With the SonicWALL Aventail solution, we return control and security to I.T. and still give end-users total freedom of choice to select the mobile platform that's right for them. We can determine the appropriate level of trust for each mobile device and automatically grant differentiated levels of access. We return to order and security from a chaotic and dangerous mobile environment."

SonicWALL continues to innovate in enterprise SSL VPN solutions, and extends powerful, productive features to its SMB customers. The SRA 1200 provides a new unified policy management interface to simplify how I.T. managers grant access to corporate resources. Additionally, SonicWALL has integrated a powerful, Web Application Firewall (WAF) that incorporates dynamic signature updates to protect against modern, web-based threats. For remote help desk support, I.T. administrators can take advantage of Virtual Assist. This feature of SonicWALL's SRA 1200 introduces new tools to provide desktop support to remote workers without requiring fat clients or other solutions to be installed. Through the new Virtual Access feature, employees can access unattended workstations at home or remote offices.

"SonicWALL's SRA 1200 introduces a wealth of new, powerful SMB-focused features that help reduce my clients' costs, and expand the capabilities of their networks," said Tom Gregorski, technical manager, eDrivium Corp. "Best of all, innovative features like 'Virtual Assist' help me support small businesses remotely without having to do a truck roll."

Workers are no longer tied to their desks, with many working primarily from home or at partner and customer offices, or on the road during business travel. The benefits of a mobile workforce are immense, but so are the risks of sensitive data being compromised and possibly falling into the wrong hands. Employees may access corporate data from home PCs, company issued notebooks outside the office or at kiosks at tradeshows and conferences. Many are requesting access to databases and information from mobile devices. The solution lies in secure access from remote locations, irrespective of device. Today's release of SonicWALL Aventail 10.5 and the SRA 1200 reinforces SonicWALL's commitment to provide companies with dynamic security for the global network and intelligent solutions that protect against evolving threats and adapt as organizations change.