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SonicWALL Launches Mobile Connect Client App for Google Android
March 05, 2012
By Sujata Garud, TMCnet Contributor

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SonicWALL has introduced its Mobile Connect client app for Google Android (News - Alert) smartphones and tablets. With the new app, the mobile users can access resources across SonicWALL appliances, including SonicWALL Aventail E-Class Secure Remote Access (SRA), SRA for SMB and SonicWALL (News - Alert) Next-Generation Firewalls.


Users of SonicWALL’s Mobile Connect app get network-level access to corporate, academic and government resources over encrypted SSL VPN connections. The app is available as a free download via the Android Market. The company also offers the Mobile Connect app for iOS, iPhone (News - Alert) and iPad, available on the App Store.

In a press release, Patrick Sweeney, vice president of product management and corporate marketing at SonicWALL, said, “Android tablets and smartphones are commonplace tools for today's mobile workforce. Companies must have tools to manage security for those devices both inside and outside the corporate network. With Mobile Connect, enterprise, educational and government institutions can maintain stringent security standards while their employees travel outside of the protected perimeter, thus enabling greater workforce productivity.”

When mobile devices keep critical business information flowing, they can also introduce malware,  either accidentally or intentionally, into the network. The Mobile Connect app creates a Clean VPN when deployed with or alongside a SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW). The SonicWALL NGFW helps to decrypt traffic while the NGFW decontaminates threats, viruses and malware from smartphones or tablets over SSL VPN before they can enter the network. The SSL VPN delivers critical dual protection to secure VPN access and traffic by combining SSL VPN and high-performance next-generation firewalls. With the help of SonicWALL Application Intelligence and Control functionality, network administrators can recognize which apps should receive critical bandwidth. This helps assure performance for key business, education and government applications.

SonicWALL’s End Point Control (EPC) is an important feature of the Mobile Connect app. The EPC is available only on the SonicWALL Aventail (News - Alert) E-Class SRA Series. The EPC recognizes specific device attributes and inflicts they are met before allowing the device to connect to the network. The End Point Control can also help identify if an Android device has been jailbroken, thereby removing Android's built-in security enforcement, so that connections from compromised devices may be rejected or quarantined.

SonicWALL was in news recently when it announced that next-generation firewall (NGFW) adoption among its customer base is growing, particularly in retail and academic deployments. The growing threat environment coupled with the necessity of improved security with minimal latency has created increased demand for SonicWALL’s high-performance network security solutions with application intelligence, control and visualization features.




Edited by Rich Steeves

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