Remote Access Solutions
With more employees working from more locations and with more diverse groups, such as partners, accessing network resources and with threats of unexpected business disruptions, remote access has become a business necessity. SonicWALL SSL VPNs make secure remote access easy to use and control.
Remote Access Deployment Scenario
- Need: Employees such as traveling sales representatives and telecommuters working from home need secure easy access from anywhere to corporate network resources.
- Solution: A SonicWALL SSL-VPN 2000 deployed in one-arm mode alongside a SonicWALL PRO 2040 or virtually any other third party firewall.
- Results: Using only a Web browser, remote users are able to securely access corporate network resources from anywhere outside the corporate LAN, whether it’s from a corporate laptop used in a hotel room or their home computer.
Disaster Recovery Solutions
Disaster recovery can be triggered by a catastrophic event like a hurricane or epidemic, or by something as simple as a regional power outage, severe weather, flu outbreaks, or flooding of an office building because of a burst water pipe. Business disruption can mean lost opportunities, revenues, or reputation. In an emergency, remote access via SSL VPN can let employees work from home as if they were still in the office.
Disaster Recovery Deployment Scenario
- Need: When a disaster happens such as an earthquake or a flood it is critical that your employees are able to continue their work from elsewhere and that your company does not lose its corporate data.
- Solution: A SonicWALL SSL-VPN 2000 deployed in one arm mode alongside a SonicWALL TZ 190. A SonicWALL CDP 2440i and a subscription to SonicWALL CDP Offsite Data Backup Service.
- Results: When your employees are not able to physically get to the corporate office they can still access your corporate resources remotely via a secure SSL VPN connection. Corporate data is always accessible as it is backed up both locally and offsite. A 3G wireless WAN connection is available at the main corporate location in case the primary wired WAN connection goes down.
Wireless Solutions
More corporations, universities, hospitals and governmental organizations are implementing wireless networks and using SSL VPN as a secure and centralized access control solution. SonicWALL SSL VPNs integrate seamlessly with SonicWALL wireless access solutions using SonicWALL TZ 180 or PRO Series appliances and SonicWALL SonicPoints.
Wireless Deployment Scenario
- Need: An organization's headquarters consists of several buildings in a business-park campus. IT wants to securely connect its 200 employees remotely from anywhere on campus, as well as from home and on the road.
- Solution: A SonicWALL SSL-VPN 2000 deployed alongside a SonicWALL PRO 2040 and several SonicWALL SonicPoints placed as "hot spots" at strategic locations around campus. Wireless connections are encrypted via the SSL protocol.
- Results: End users get secure access from anywhere on campus from their wireless devices. As an added bonus, remote workers away from campus can connect into the corporate network via an SSL VPN connection. And IT maintains centralized, granular access control over who can access what resources from using a single gateway.
Extranet Solutions
Growing businesses need to extend authorized access to partners and suppliers via extranets to increase collaboration and productivity. However, extranet access must meet security demands, while minimizing deployment and support overhead. SonicWALL SSL VPNs provide secure “anywhere access” without “fat client” deployments.
Extranet Deployment Scenario
- Need: A design firm is working with a contracting company on a new product. The contractors require access to large design files but are unwilling to install yet another VPN software client on their machine as they do business with many different companies.
- Solution: A SonicWALL SSL-VPN 2000 deployed in one arm mode alongside a SonicWALL PRO 2040.
- Results: Contractors can be given browser based access remotely to a specific file share folder but are restricted access to any other network resources. As an added bonus, employees of the design firm can now remotely access network resources. IT can set detailed policies at the application layer over who can access what resources.
