About the SMA Appliance

The SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliance provides secure remote access to web applications, client/server applications, and file shares for employees, business partners, and customers.

All traffic is encrypted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) to protect it from unauthorized users.

This appliance makes secure remote access possible using different access methods on a wide range of platforms and mobile devices.

The SMA appliance can be used to:

• Create a remote access Virtual Private Network (VPN) that gives remote employees secure access to private company applications such as email.
• Create a business partner VPN that provides designated suppliers with access to an internal supply chain application.

As the administrator, you determine the resources to which users have access. The SMA appliance transparently and dynamically uses the access methods appropriate for those resources.