Security

Review: SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 210 Secure VPN Delivers Powerful Protection

Easy to configure and use, the 210 series is built with small and midsize businesses in mind.

Carlos Soto is an award-winning reviewer and journalist with 20 years of experience covering technology and business within various sectors and industries.

Effective IT security is challenging to achieve in any environment, and for any company. According to one report, 90 percent of companies fail to detect, contain and resolve cyberthreats within an hour.

That slow response time is driven in part by two underlying problems: high turnover rates among cloud-security professionals (which 73 percent of organizations report experiencing) and difficulty finding the right security tools (which 77 percent of organizations acknowledged is a challenge).

The bottom line: Increasingly complex cybersecurity is contributing to the inability of many companies to meet IT security demands.

A mobile workforce further complicates the security landscape for many businesses. In a mobile work world, the number of devices that IT teams must now account for is staggering. This requires more security policies to create and manage the numerous security gaps that criminals can exploit.

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SPECIFICATIONS

Memory: 4GB RAM
Connectivity: Wired
Data Link Protocols: Gigabit Ethernet
Features: IPv6 support, load balancing, syslog support
Form Factor: Rack-mountable
Product Type: Security appliance
Remote Management: HTTP, HTTPS, SNMP, SSH, Telnet, VNC

How the SonicWall VPN Provides Powerful Defense

These troubling factors make solutions such as the SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 210 VPN solution vital for any small to midsize business. Available as a physical appliance and as a virtual machine, this security tool delivers powerful defenses without needing an entire IT team for support.

Built to simplify end-to-end secure remote access to corporate resources, the SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 210 provides comprehensive data protection regardless of whether data is on-premises, in the cloud or both. In tests of both the appliance and the VM version, all data and network resources remained safe during a week of simulated attacks. At no point was I able to use common attack techniques to breach network security protected by the 210.

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The product uses multifactor authentication to verify the identity of users, while also providing advanced encryption to secure data in transit. Additionally, it offers advanced threat protection to detect and block any potential cyberthreats.

It is also easy to use: I installed, configured and began working with it in an afternoon. It offers a simplified user interface that allows new users to connect to the network quickly and securely using their preferred devices, without the need for complex setup or configuration processes.

With the SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 210 Series, businesses can provide their employees with reliable and robust remote access capabilities without compromising security, and without the need for a large IT support staff.

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