Dell SonicWALL Secure Mobile Access 100 Series OS 8.5 Offers Enhanced Security for SMB Mobile and Remote Workers

·         Dell SonicWALL
Secure Mobile Access 100 Series OS 8.5 empowers IT with easy-to-use policy-enforced management tools that allow
for quick adjustments to ensure that authorized users and trusted devices have
easy, secure access to corporate data

·         Business users
increase productivity and enhance work/life balance with access to data
whenever they need it from wherever they are, on the devices they choose

Singapore, June 30, 2016 – Dell Security today announced the release of Dell SonicWALL Secure
Mobile Access (SMA) 100 Series OS 8.5, which provides mobile and
remote workers at small- and medium-sized businesses with policy-enforced SSL
VPN access to mission-critical applications, data and resources without
compromising security. This newest version of the Dell SonicWALL SMA 100 Series
OS affords enhanced security to customers by allowing administrators to quickly
and easily provision secure mobile access and role-based privileges so workers
using smart phones, tablets or laptops (managed or unmanaged)get fast,
simple and secure access.  At the same time, the solution enables
organizations to institute BYOD security policies to protect their corporate
networks and data from rogue access and malware.

The proliferation of devices in the
workplace, both employer-issued and personally owned, has increased the demand
for secure mobile access to company applications, data and resources. Often,
employees use the same device for both business and personal use, resulting in
the intermingling of business and personal data and applications. This places
organizations at increased risk for security breaches such as:

·         Unauthorized access
to networks and systems from lost or stolen devices

·         Malware and
ransomware spread through infected devices that serve as conduits

·         Interception of
organization data in-flight on unsecured public Wi-Fi networks

Securing mobile devices is becoming increasingly difficult as
companies often no longer influence device selection or control device
management.  To protect from threats and still enable access for remote
and mobile workers, an organization must ensure that only authorized users and
approved devices meeting security policy requirements are granted network and
resource access, and company data on the device is secure.

The new enhancements to the Dell
SonicWALL SMA 100 Series OS provide greater control and ease-of-use for
companies in setting policy controls, allowing users to access the data they
need from the devices they use and without skimping on security. The SMA
100 series is compatible with all commonly used devices across Windows, iOS,
Mac OS X, Android, Linux, Kindle Fire, and Chrome, to provide mobile users
secure access to network resources including shared folders, client-server
applications, intranet sites, email, and remote and virtual desktop services.

This helps IT to become the “Department of YES” by enabling administrators to
configure security policies that provide best-in-class, context-aware
authentication that grants access only to authorized users through trusted
devices. New functionality enhancements in OS version 8.5 include:

·      Policy Wizards ‒ Easy-to-use wizards to deploy
policies for OWA, ActiveSync, Outlook Anywhere and Autodiscover. This saves IT
administrators considerable time for the most commonly created policies, making
them more productive, and it lowers the company’s overall TCO.

·      HTML5 Enhancements ‒ Provide end users with a rich
access experience within their own choice of web browser, eliminating their
need to download, install and maintain additional software on their
systems.  Everything can be run from within the context of the browser
window, making connection to resources very easy and with zero-day support of
all major operating systems and browsers.

·      Virtual Host
Multicore Support ‒ Increases resource
capacity of host resources that can be accessed by SMA to provide greater
reliability and performance at higher concurrencies of connected users. With
this additional resource capacity, concurrent user maximum increases from 50 to
250.  Lastly, to align across the entire portfolio, this product
previously known as “SRA SMB Virtual Appliance” has now been renamed “SMA
500v.”

In addition, noteworthy recent
functionality enhancements to Dell SonicWALL SMA 100 series include:

·      Web Application
Firewall (WAF) Enhancements ‒ Helping
to secure internal web applications from remote users, the Dell
SonicWALL award-winning WAF engine has been enhanced to detect against
additional exploits and threats. This allows customers to ensure that
confidentiality of data and internal web services remains uncompromised if a
malicious or rogue authenticated user should gain access.

·      Geo IP Detection
and Botnet Protection ‒ Grants customers with a mechanism to allow or restrict user
access from various geographical locations. This also provides additional
protection from a compromised endpoint participating in a botnet, further
verifying the validity of the connecting device.

·      End Point Control
(EPC) Enhancements ‒ Various
enhancements to the SMA EPC engine provide greater assurance that the endpoint
accessing the network is trusted and not malicious.

“Due to resource restraints, SMBs often struggle to
simultaneously keep up with today’s security requirements and ensure
that workers can remain productive while on-the-go.  It’s a balancing act
for IT to keep employees productive, with the flexibility to access corporate
data whenever and from wherever they are on the device(s) they choose, while
ensuring that business assets and the organization have the level of security
needed to fend off today’s shapeshifting threats. The new, easy-to-use
policy-enforced management tools in the Dell SonicWALL SMA 100 Series OS 8.5
allow IT to make quick adjustments that enforce authorized access to enhance
productivity ‒ rather than
create a barrier to the business ‒ allowing IT to become the “Department of YES.”

·         This SMA 100 Series
OS 8.5 upgrade will be available for download from www.mysonicwall.com in July at no cost to customers
with active support contracts in place.

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