Network Security & Firewalls

SonicWall SMA is a unified secure access gateway that enables organizations to provide anytime, anywhere and any device access to mission critical corporate resources. SMA's granular access control policy engine, context aware device authorization, application level VPN and advanced authentication with single sign-on empowers organizations to embrace BYOD and mobility in a hybrid IT environment.

Mobility and BYOD

For organizations wishing to embrace BYOD, flexible working or third party access, SMA becomes the critical enforcement point across them all. SMA delivers best-in-class security to minimize surface threats, while making organizations more secure by supporting latest encryption algorithms and ciphers. SonicWall's SMA allows administrators to provision secure mobile access and role-based privileges so end-users get fast, simple access to the business applications, data and resources they require. At the same time, organizations can institute secure BYOD policies to protect their corporate networks and data from rogue access and malware.

Move to the cloud

For organizations embarking on a cloud migration journey, SMA offers a single sign-on (SSO) infrastructure that uses a single web portal to authenticate users in a hybrid IT environment. Whether the corporate resource is on-premise, on the web or in a hosted cloud, the access experience is consistent and seamless. SMA also integrates with industry leading multi-factor authentication technologies for added security

Managed service providers

For either organizations hosting their own infrastructure or for managed service providers, SMA provides turnkey solution to deliver a high degree of business continuity and scalability. SMA can support up to 20,000 concurrent connections on a single appliance, with the ability to scale upwards of hundreds of thousands users through intelligent clustering. Data centers can reduce costs with active-active clustering and a built-in dynamic load balancer, which reallocates global traffic to the most optimized data center in realtime based on user demand. SMA tool sets enable service providers to deliver services with zero downtime, allowing them to fulfill very aggressive SLAs.

SMA empowers IT departments to provide the best experience and the most secure access depending on the user scenario. Available as hardened physical appliances or powerful virtual appliances, SMA fits seamlessly into existing IT infrastructure. Organizations can choose from a range of fully clientless web-based secure access for third parties or employees on personally owned devices, or a more traditional client-based full tunnel VPN access for executives across all device types. Whether organizations need to provide reliable secure access to five users from a single location, or scale up to thousands' of users across globally distributed data centers, SonicWall SMA has a solution.

SonicWall SMA enables organizations to embrace mobility and BYOD without fear, and move to the cloud with ease. SMA empowers workforces and provides them with a consistent access experience.

SMA Appliance & Deployment

A hardened edge gateway for anytime, anywhere, any device secure access

SMA is an advanced access security gateway that offers secure access to network and cloud resources from any device. SMA provides centralized, granular, policy-based enforcement of remote and mobile access to any corporate resource delivered using a hardened Linux based appliance. Available as hardened physical appliances or powerful virtual appliances, SMA fits seamlessly into any existing IT infrastructure.

SonicWall Network Security appliance (NSa) series

Industry-validated security effectiveness and performance for mid-sized networks and distributed enterprises

The SonicWall Network Security appliance (NSa) series provides midsized networks, branch offices and distributed enterprises with advanced threat prevention in a high-performance security platform. Utilizing innovative deep learning technologies in the SonicWall Capture Cloud Platform, the NSa series delivers the automated realtime breach detection and prevention organizations need.

Cutting-edge threat prevention with superior performance

Today's network threats are highly evasive and increasingly difficult to identify using traditional methods of detection. Staying ahead of sophisticated attacks requires a more modern approach that heavily leverages security intelligence in the cloud. Without that cloud intelligence, gateway security solutions can't keep pace with today's complex threats. NSa series nextgeneration firewalls (NGFWs) integrate two advanced security technologies to deliver cutting-edge threat prevention that keeps your network one step ahead. Enhancing SonicWall's multi-engine Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service is our patent-pending Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI™) technology. The RTDMI engine proactively detects and blocks mass market, zero-day threats and unknown malware by inspecting directly in memory. Because of the real-time architecture, SonicWall RTDMI technology is precise, minimizes false positives, and identifies and mitigates sophisticated attacks where the malware's weaponry is exposed for less than 100 nanoseconds. In combination, SonicWall's patented single-pass Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI) engine examines every byte of every packet, inspecting both inbound and outbound traffic simultaneously on the firewall. By leveraging the SonicWall Capture Cloud Platform in addition to on-box capabilities including intrusion prevention, antimalware and web/URL filtering, the NSa series blocks even the most insidious threats at the gateway.

Further, SonicWall firewalls provide complete protection by performing full decryption and inspection of TLS/SSL and SSH encrypted connections as well as non-proxyable applications regardless of transport or protocol. The firewall looks deep inside every packet (the header and data) searching for protocol non-compliance, threats, zero-days, intrusions, and even defined criteria. The deep packet inspection engine detects and prevents hidden attacks that leverage cryptography, blocks encrypted malware downloads, ceases the spread of infections, and thwarts command and control (C&C) communications and data exfiltration. Inclusion and exclusion rules allow total control to customize which traffic is subjected to decryption and inspection based on specific organizational compliance and/or legal requirements.

When organizations activate deep packet inspection functions such as IPS, antivirus, anti-spyware, TLS/SSL decryption/ inspection and others on their firewalls, network performance often slows down, sometimes dramatically. NSa series firewalls, however, feature a multi-core hardware architecture that utilizes specialized security microprocessors. Combined with our RTDMI and RFDPI engines, this unique design eliminates the performance degradation networks experience with other firewalls.

Featuring a high port density including multiple 40 GbE and 10 GbE ports, the solution supports network and hardware redundancy with high availability, and dual power supplies.

SonicWall Generation 7 (Gen 7) Network Security Appliance (NSa) next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) offers medium- to large-sized enterprises industry-leading performance at the lowest total cost of ownership in their class.

With comprehensive security features such as intrusion prevention, VPN, application control, malware analysis, URL filtering, DNS Security, Geo-IP and Bot-net services, it protects the perimeter from advanced threats without becoming a bottleneck.

The Gen 7 NSa Series has been built from the ground up with the latest hardware components, all designed to deliver multi-gigabit threat prevention throughput - even for encrypted traffic. Featuring a high port density including multiple 40 GbE and 10 GbE ports, the solution supports network and hardware redundancy with high availability, and dual power supplies.

Generation 7 - SonicOS 7.0 and Security Services

The Gen 7 NSa Series runs on SonicOS 7.0, a new operating system built from the ground up to deliver a modern user interface, intuitive workflows and user-first design principles. SonicOS 7.0 provides multiple features designed to facilitate enterprise-level workflows. It offers easy policy configuration, zero-touch deployment and flexible management - all of which allow enterprises to improve both their security and operational efficiency.

The Gen 7 NSa Series supports advanced networking features, such as SD-WAN, dynamic routing, layer 4-7 high-availability and high-speed VPN functionality. In addition to integrating firewall and switch capabilities, the appliance provides a single-pane-of-glass interface to manage both switches and access points.

Built to mitigate the advanced cyberattacks of today and tomorrow, the Gen 7 NSa Series offers access to SonicWall's advanced firewall security services, allowing you to protect your entire IT infrastructure. Solutions and services such as Cloud Application Security, Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) cloud-based sandboxing, Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI™) and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI) - for all traffic including TLS 1.3 - offer comprehensive gateway protection from most stealthy and dangerous malware, including zero-day and encrypted threats.

The SonicWall Network Security services platform™ (NSsp) series has next-generation firewalls with high port density and multi-gig speed interfaces, that can process several million connections for zero-day and advanced threats. Designed for large enterprise, higher education, government agencies and MSSPs, it eliminates attacks in real time without slowing performance. It is designed to be highly reliable and deliver uninterrupted services to organizations.

Enterprise-Class Firewalls

As businesses evolve along with an increase in managed and unmanaged devices, networks, cloud workloads, SaaS applications, users, Internet speeds, and encrypted connections, a firewall that can't support any one of these becomes a bottleneck. A firewall should be a source of strength and not a point of weakness.

The SonicWall NSsp firewall's multiple 100G/40G/25G/10G interfaces allow you to process several million simultaneous encrypted and unencrypted connections with unparallel threat prevention technology. With more than 70% of all sessions being encrypted, having a firewall that can process and examine this trafc without impacting the end user experience is critical to productivity and information security.

The NSsp's unifed policy enables organizations to simply and intuitively create access and security policies in a single interface.

Simplified management and reporting

Ongoing management, monitoring and reporting of network activities are handled through the SonicWall Network Security Manager. This provides an intuitive dashboard for managing firewall operations as well as provide historical reports - from a single source. Together, the simplified deployment and setup along with the ease of management enable organizations to lower their total cost of ownership and realize a high return on investment.

Deployment | Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)

• Managed through a single pane of glass
• NSsp integrates with the rest of the SonicWall ecosystem of solutions
• Gain full visibility into your network to see what applications, devices, and users are doing to enforce policies as well as eliminate threats and bandwidth bottlenecks
• Integrate with Capture ATP with RTDMI for cloud-based sandboxing or Capture Security appliance for on-premise malware detection

• The NSsp provides inspection for over millions of simultaneous TLS/SSL and SSH encrypted connections regardless of port or protocol
• Inclusion and exclusion rules allow customization based on specifc organizational compliance and/or legal requirements
• Support for TLS cipher suites up to TLS 1.3