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Xpertex

SonicWall Secure Mobile Accesss - SMA8200v

SonicWalls SMA8200v is an enterprise grade zero trust appliance with FIPS 140-2 certification for customers needing to maintain full control over
data & management planes. It can support user counts typically starting at 50 and moving upwards into the tens of thousands.

Features

  • Access from Anyware
  • Management at global scale and in-depth visibility
  • Strong MFA for evolving organizations
  • Zero-Trust access via a web browser
  • Simplified access with Single-Sign-On (SSO)

Benefits

  • Access to any application, anytime, anywhere and from any device
  • Unleash the benefits of a mobile workforce without the risk.
  • CMS central management lets you see everything connected
  • CMS provides global traffic optimization, capacity upscaling, and dynamic licencing.
  • Several MFA integrations - RSA, Defender, Google Authenticator, and Duo
  • Zero-Trust Access via a web browser from unmanaged, public device.
  • TLS 1.3, encryption protocol with advanced ciphers and speed optimisation,
  • Consistent user experience across devices with easy to use portal

Pricing

£1,293.00 an instance

  • Free trial available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

2 8 9 9 8 8 2 7 2 7 7 6 8 9 4

Contact

Xpertex Louise Carter
Telephone: 08450341412
Email: louise.carter@xpertex.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
What software services is the service an extension to
The SMA8200 can be a stand aslone instance but you can handle the licenses centralized. The Central Management System (CMS) holds and distributes all user licenses centrally and pushes the license to the SMA appliance where the license is needed.
Cloud deployment model
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
Service constraints
No.
System requirements
Memory and CPU requirements vary with model

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
24x7x365 Support
Priority 1 (Critical) - < 1 Hour
Priority 2 (High) - 2 Hours
Priority 3 (Medium) - 4 Hours
Priority 4 (Low) - 8 Business Hours
Support Service Level Agreements (SLA) are identical for Monday to Friday and Weekends/Public Holidays
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
None or don’t know
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
Web chat
Web chat support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), 7 days a week
Web chat support accessibility standard
None or don’t know
How the web chat support is accessible
Users can raise basic questions but cannot log a ticket via web chat.
Web chat accessibility testing
The opportunity for us to work with assittive technology users has not yet arisen.
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
SonicWall Manufacturer Support: Decades of expertise, delivered through multiple support options.

Premier Service
Dedicated service account management, pin-activated emergency phone support for critical issues, serviced by SonicWall-approved subject matter experts, monthly newsletter & reporting
Online Self-Service
Online collaboration forums, interactive knowledge base, technical documentation, how-to video libraries
Professional Services
Remote installation assistance. Project-based deployment & project management services
Health check services
Remote & onsite technical assistance
Standard Service
Break fix support for Q&A. Follow-the-sun support, globally serviced.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Customer can use our Managed Solutions team and SonicWall online support. Knowledge base articles, SonicWall University on Sonicwall.com is also available along with technical documentation.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Configuration can be exported. Virtual appliance can be wiped clean if desired.
End-of-contract process
Security services and support functions cease to be updated.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
No
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
None or don’t know
Description of service interface
Full GUI & CLI are available for configuration, management and monitoring purposes.
Accessibility standards
None or don’t know
Description of accessibility
SonicWall CMS or SMA is accessed and configured using a web rbrowser or CLI client.
Accessibility testing
None.
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
There is a fully restful API available for the SonicWall SMA. It allows comands to be sent to configure or to set up the appliance.
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
API sandbox or test environment
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Portal login screen can be branded with customer logo.

Scaling

Independence of resources
There is no user limit, if more useres need to access remotly, you add an additional SMA appliance.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Active Users
CPU utilization
Memory utilization
Network bandwidth
swap utilization
disk space utilization
Reporting types
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra features and support
Organisation whose services are being resold
SonicWall

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
Other locations
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Managed by a third party
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
In-house
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
You can export configuration file from the appliance or can make a local backup.
Data export formats
Other
Other data export formats
Proprietary configuration format
Data import formats
Other
Other data import formats
None

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
Data protection within supplier network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
It is impossible for us to provide guarantees due to the reliance of the underlying Cloud Platform or Server.
Approach to resilience
With CMS in place all SMA appliances are active and if one SMA appliance fails, one of the other appliances will take over.
Outage reporting
You can configure a specific Syslog Server, where the system can report to

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password
  • Other
Other user authentication
LDAP/AD/RADIUS/One Identity Defender/RSA/PKI/SAML2.0/Local User.
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
The management infercae can be restricted by only giving access to specified acccounts of your choosing. Further more access can be limited by public IP to your chosen address. For access to support channels this would be acheieved via mysonicwall.com. An account is needed in order to register the device. Mysonicwall.com requires a username and password as well as optional MFA.
Access restriction testing frequency
Less than once a year
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password
  • Other
Description of management access authentication
The Administrator would go to the web UI of the SMA/CMS Virtual appliance. Here they would input their username and password in order to gain access to the appliance. SonicWall SMA/CMS also can integrate with third party MFA solutions for an additional layer of authentication.

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
QMS International
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
30/01/2020
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
Customer technology services, such as cloud services.
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
ISO 9001

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
Other security governance standards
Cyber Essentials +
Information security policies and processes
As an ISO 27001 certified organisation Xpertex follow a suite of processes that support our policies that themselves have been derived from our Statement of Applicability (SoA).
Examples of our documentation suite –
1. Risk Assessment
2. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
3. Non-conformance and Breaches
4. Physical Security
5. Personnel Security including remote working
6. Network Security
7. Technology estate
8. Crypto Management (where required)
9. Supply Chain Assurance (via the Rizikon toolset)
8. User SyOps
10. Asset Management including safe Destruction and Disposal
11. Change Control
12. Data Classification and Handling

We have an over-arching Security Management Plan (SMP), that covers all aspects of our Information Security estate and is available upon request.
We re-certify to ISO 27001 every 3 years, but we are subject to annual maintenance audits (next audit due in June 2022).
The Security Controller has responsibility to audit compliance against the controls in the ISO standard, these audit records form part of continual improvement posture we have that is driven by our ISO 9001 Quality Management System (that has recently been recertified).
Monthly board meetings include a standing agenda from the security controller where all security matters are discussed and minuted.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
All part of our standard Impact Assessment, ITL lifecycle management and Change Management processes.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
SonicWall CAS vulnerabiliities are managed using the standard manufactirer processes. Any and all potential vulnerabilites are published on the SonicWall psirt website - https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-list
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Xpertex provide protective monitoring services to our customers. Internally, we use AlienVault software in line and accordance with our CE+ and ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certfications.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Details of impact of specific failures and associated priorities and SLA's are be discussed and agreed with customers in line with ITIL best practice. Our Service Manager will work to resolve service incidents to meet target performance level (KPI's and SLA's) and can escalate our response through the Service Director.
Incidents are reported by telephone our email through to our service desk and are reported in accordance with the support contract in place between us and the customer at that time.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

Fighting climate change

Xpertex is committed to continually improving our environmental performance and monitoring. Xpertex has started the process to gain the following two environmental ISO accreditations:

ISO 14001 Environmental Management System
ISO 50001 Energy Management System
This is on top of our existing ISO9001, ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials PLUS accreditations.

Critical to our core operation is our IT infrastructure and Data Centre, which house our IT equipment, along with connectivity to our cloud Infrastructure. Xpertex recognises that energy efficient practices, and reducing our carbon footprint, are paramount in achieving our corporate sustainability goals.

Xpertex also works with its customers to help them reduce their carbon footprint where appropriate.

Full social value statement https://xpertex.com/social-values/

Tackling economic inequality

We are committed to equal pay for our workforce. To address our gender pay gap, we have several initiatives in place, to not only attract more talent, but to encourage a more balanced, and rewarding workplace.

Working with educational institutions to help attract more women into STEM focused roles.
We have a mentoring programme available for all, to encourage progression into senior roles.
Training is available to cover areas like Equality & Diversity, Unconscious Bias, etc.
We have established a Women’s Working Group who assist in supporting the attraction, retention and promotion of our female talent across the business.

Full social value statement https://xpertex.com/social-values/

Equal opportunity

Xpertex is committed to developing, supporting and sustaining a diverse workforce. It strives to create a working environment where everyone can to do their job, to the best of their ability, without having to face discrimination, harassment or victimisation. Xpertex avoids unlawful discrimination in all aspects of employment including recruitment, promotion, training opportunities, pay and benefits, discipline and selection for redundancy. Any decisions concerning employment, promotion and training will be based on objective, job-related criteria and merit. Disability and personal/home commitments will not form the basis of employment decisions except where absolutely reasonable and permissible within anti-discrimination law.

Xpertex monitors the ethnic, gender, age composition of our existing workforce as well as the number of people with disabilities within these groups and will consider and take any appropriate action to address any problems that may be identified by the monitoring process.

Full social value statement https://xpertex.com/social-values/

Wellbeing

Xpertex has an Employee Assistance Programme available to all staff which provides access to advice, counselling and support. Workplace mental health is especially important to the company with information and advice issued on a regular basis. We give every employee a day off on their birthday and additional holiday allowances are in place to recognise length of service milestones. We conduct an annual staff survey which provides opportunity for any issues to be raised to the senior management. Processes exist where concerns can be raised without fear of negative consequences for the individual raising the concerns. Flexible working practises developed during the Covid pandemic are in place giving all staff the ability to work from home where possible. We are continuing to provide these flexible working practices post-pandemic. Flexible working hours are encouraged and were invaluable during the pandemic and enabled parents with school age children to home-school their children, and those with responsibilities to the elderly to provide the support they wish to give. Staff are also encouraged to volunteer to continue to volunteer in the community. Xpertex participated in a local initiative to offer IT equipment to under-privileged children in the local community allowing them to conduct their schooling from home. When staff started to return to the office, all sensible precautions have been maintained. A cycle to work and an electric car salary sacrifice scheme are also available to all employees.

Full social value statement https://xpertex.com/social-values/

Pricing

Price
£1,293.00 an instance
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
Fully featured SMA virtual appliance with a time-liited (typically 1 month) licence.

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at louise.carter@xpertex.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.