Sonicwall SMA for implementing work from home for users in difficult times
Rating: 7 out of 10
August 04, 2021
DS
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
We are using Sonicwall SMA for our management staff who wants to work from outside the office. They are able to connect to head office resources very effectively. For management staff, we have not enabled additional security features like Multi-factor auth or certificate-based auth, but SMA has proved to be very stable and cost-effective to serve the purpose.
- Users can now work from home effectively
- You can publish or share resources with clients and business related personals securely.
- Has integrated multi factor auth options
- User based licenses helped us get pay only for our requirement
Cons
- SMA is limited to only SSL VPN , it should have support for hybrid VPN (SSL + IPSEC)
- There are different specs and features for Enterprise and SMB. Features should be same for all devices.
- It does not have URL filtering, content filtering, AV/IPS and Threat Prevention features. For achieving the same, we need to deploy another product like firewall or proxy.
- SSL VPN Connectivity
- User based licenses
- MFA
- After SMA, the management team can seamlessly access internal resources, from outside the office, and hence, positive
- As users are working from home, now they cannot delay our give reasons on late arrival, improving the productivity and saving man hours in travelling
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