Advertisment

SonicWall SSL-VPN 4000

author-image
PCQ Bureau
New Update

SSL-VPN 4000 provides secure remote access to various sources on an

organization's network from anywhere in the world. It has a console port that

connects to an external network such as the Internet. All remote access occurs

through this port. Interestingly, there are five other Ethernet ports on the

box, which according to SonicWall, are all reserved for future use.

Advertisment

There are various ways to deploy this VPN appliance. You can connect the box

to your organization's Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). You can connect it on a

different subnet on your own network. The latter option would be feasible for a

large enterprise that needs to provide secure access to branch offices connected

on its WAN.

There is no restriction on how many concurrent users can connect to the

device, but for optimal performance, SonicWall recommends 200 concurrent users.

To test the device, we connected it to a router. A machine was kept on the LAN

with file sharing enabled on it. The appliance itself supports web-based

management, which is fairly easy to use. We created a user on it, and then tried

to access the internal share from a machine connected to the router's WAN

interface. An IP range was also defined that would be assigned to external users

who connect to the internal resource. After this, all external users wanting to

connect to the internal network would first have to login to the VPN appliance.

They have to download a small client from the appliance, which would then

facilitate the login. Once this is done, future logins become easy. Once the

appliance logged our external user in, we were able to easily access the

internal share. We were easily able to upload and download files to this

internal file share, all through the VPN appliance, over a secure link.

Likewise, the appliance allows external users to access other internal

resources. These could be a Web application, Outlook Web Access, a Citrix

Presentation Server, and many other sources.You could for instance, remotely

control desktops or even servers. This can be very useful for IT managers, as

they can manage their IT infrastructure remotely.

Advertisment

Speaking of secure, we did run our army of security benchmarks on the

appliance. It managed to withstand all of them. Our slew of tests included

Nessus, Nmap, and even a tool for attacking SSL devices, called OpenSSL-to-open.

Nessus showed zero risks and warnings, and Open SSL-to-open also failed to

penetrate. Nmap also reported similar results.



Price:
Rs. 4,85,000 (for 200 concurrent

users)



Meant For: Mid and large enterprises


Key Specs: 200 concurrent connections,
support for remote desktop mgmt, Citrix presentation Server, and OWA.



Pros: Passed all our security tests.


Cons: None


Contact: SonicWall, Delhi


Mob: 9810490029,
E-mail:akumar@sonicwall.com









SMS Buy 130882 to 6677

Bottomline: With its security and good performance, this device is a good buy

for enterprises that need remote access into their networks.

Advertisment