Secure Mobile Access 100 10.2 Administration Guide
- Secure Mobile Access 10.2
- Introduction
- About This Guide
- New Features
- Deprecated Features
- Overview of SMA Components
- SMA Software Components
- SMA Hardware Components
- Client Versions Released with 10.2
- SMA 500v Virtual Appliances
- Increased Client Connections on SMA 210/410
- Capture ATP Integration Overview
- Always on VPN
- Encryption Overview
- SSL for Virtual Private Networking (VPN)
- SSL Handshake Procedure
- IPv6 Support Overview
- Portals Overview
- File Shares
- Domains Overview
- Application Offloading and HTTP(S) Bookmarks Overview
- Cross Domain Single Sign-On
- ActiveSync Authentication
- Network Resources Overview
- SNMP Overview
- DNS Overview
- Network Routes Overview
- NetExtender Overview
- Two-Factor Authentication Overview
- One Time Password Overview
- End Point Control Overview
- Web Application Firewall Overview
- What is Web Application Firewall?
- Benefits of Web Application Firewall
- How Does Web Application Firewall Work?
- How are Signatures Used to Prevent Attacks?
- How is Cross-Site Request Forgery Prevented?
- How is Information Disclosure Prevented?
- How are Broken Authentication Attacks Prevented?
- How are Insecure Storage and Communications Prevented?
- How is Access to Restricted URLs Prevented?
- How are Slowloris Attacks Prevented?
- What Type of PCI Compliance Reports Are Available?
- How Does Cookie Tampering Protection Work?
- How Does Application Profiling Work?
- How Does Rate Limiting for Custom Rules Work?
- Restful API - Phase 2 Support
- Restful API - Phase 1 Support
- Navigating the Management Interface
- Deployment Guidelines
- Secure Mobile Access Dashboard
- Configuring Secure Mobile Access
- System Configuration
- System > Status
- System > Licenses
- System > Time
- System > Settings
- System > Administration
- System > Certificates
- System > Monitoring
- System > Diagnostics
- System > Restart
- System > About
- Network Configuration
- Portals Configuration
- Portals > Portals
- Portals > Application Offloading
- Portals > Domains
- Viewing the Domains Table
- Removing a Domain
- Adding or Editing a Domain
- Secure Hosts for Secure Network Detection
- Adding or Editing a Domain with Local User Authentication
- Adding or Editing a Domain with Active Directory Authentication
- Adding or Editing a Domain with RADIUS Authentication
- Adding or Editing a Domain with Digital Certificates
- Adding a Domain with SAML 2.0 Authentication
- Configuring SAML Authentication
- Configuring Two-Factor Authentication
- DUO Security Authentication
- Portals > Load Balancing
- Portals > URL Based Aliasing
- System Configuration
- Configuring Services and Clients
- Services Configuration
- Services > Settings
- Services > Bookmarks
- Terminal Services (RDP-HTML5 and Native)
- Terminal Services (RDP-HTML5)
- Virtual Network Computing (VNC-HTML5)
- Citrix Portal (Citrix)
- Web (HTTP)
- Secure Web (HTTPS)
- External Web Site
- Mobile Connect
- File Shares (CIFS)
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Telnet HTML5 Settings
- Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2)
- Services > Policies
- Device Management Configuration
- Clients Configuration
- End Point Control
- Web Application Firewall Configuration
- Viewing and Updating Web Application Firewall Status
- Configuring Web Application Firewall Settings
- Enabling Web Application Firewall and Configuring General Settings
- Configuring Global Exclusions
- Configuring Intrusion Prevention Error Page Settings
- Configuring Cross-Site Request Forgery Protection Settings
- Configuring Cookie Tampering Protection Settings
- Configuring Web Site Cloaking
- Configuring Information Disclosure Protection
- Configuring Session Management Settings
- Configuring Web Application Firewall Signature Actions
- Configuring Custom Rules and Application Profiling
- Using Web Application Firewall Monitoring
- Licensing Web Application Firewall
- Capture ATP
- Geo IP and Botnet Filter
- High Availability Configuration
- Services Configuration
- Configuring Users & Logs
- Users Configuration
- Users > Status
- Users > Local Users
- Local Users
- Editing User Settings
- Adding User Policies
- Adding a Policy for an IP Address
- Adding a Policy for an IP Network
- Adding a Policy for All Addresses
- Setting File Share Access Policies
- Adding a Policy for a File Share
- Adding a Policy for a URL Object
- Policy URL Object Field Elements
- Adding a Policy for All IPv6 Addresses
- Adding a Policy for an IPv6 Address
- Adding a Policy for an IPv6 Network
- Adding or Editing User Bookmarks
- Terminal Services (RDP) or Terminal Services (RDP - HTML5)
- Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
- Citrix Portal (Citrix)
- Web (HTTP)
- Secure Web (HTTPS)
- External Web Site
- Mobile Connect
- File Shares (CIFS)
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Telnet
- Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2)
- HTML5 SSH Key File Authentication Support
- Creating a Citrix Bookmark for a Local User
- Creating Bookmarks with Custom SSO Credentials
- Configuring Login Policies
- Denying Mobile App Binding when Login is Attempted from any External Network
- Reusing Mobile App Binding Text Code
- Flexibility in Choosing Two-factor Authentication Method for NetExtender Login
- Configuring End Point Control for Users
- Configuring Capture ATP
- Users > Local Groups
- Deleting a Group
- Adding a New Group
- Editing Group Settings
- Editing General Local Group Settings
- Enabling Routes for Groups
- Adding Group Policies
- Editing a Policy for a File Share
- Configuring Group Bookmarks
- Terminal Services (RDP), Terminal Services (RDP-HTML5) or Terminal Services (RDP-Native)
- Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
- Citrix Portal (Citrix)
- Web (HTTP)
- Secure Web (HTTPS)
- External Web Site
- Mobile Connect
- File Shares (CIFS)
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Secure Shell Version 2 (SSHv2) HTML5 Settings
- SSHv2 Common Settings
- Configuring Group End Point Control
- LDAP Attribute Information
- Group Configuration for Active Directory and RADIUS Domains
- Creating a Citrix Bookmark for a Local Group
- Global Configuration
- Log Configuration
- Users Configuration
- Using Virtual Office
- Appendices
- Using Online Help
- Configuring an SMA Appliance with a Third-party Gateway
- Printer Redirection
- Use Cases
- Secure Mobile Access Security Best Practices
- Multi-Factor Authentication
- Additional Configuration Recommendations for Security Best Practices
- Prohibit Saving Username and Password
- Hide Domain List on Portal Login Page
- Enable HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) for SMA
- Enforce Login Uniqueness
- Enforce Client Source Uniqueness
- Enable “Login Schedule”
- Enable “Logout Schedule”
- Enforce Password Complexity
- Enable Client Certificate Enforcement (Advanced Security Feature)
- Restrict Request Headers
- Use a Public Certificate
- Allow Touch ID and Face ID on Mac, Apple IOS, and Android Devices
- Disconnection on Inactivity Timeout
- Disable the Default Admin Account
- Allow Policy Match Logging
- Setup Connection Policies
- Device Registration
- End Point Control
- GEO IP Fencing
- Capture ATP for the SMA 100 Series
- Security Enhancements
- General Considerations
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Using the Command Line Interface
- Using SMS Email Formats
- Support Information
- Glossary
- SonicWall Support
Benefits of Application Offloading
An offloaded Web application has the following advantages over configuring the Web application as an HTTP(S) bookmark in Secure Mobile Access:
- No URL rewriting is necessary, thereby improving throughput significantly.
- The functionality of the original Web application is retained almost completely, while an HTTP(S) bookmark is a best-effort solution.
- Application offloading extends Secure Mobile Access security features to publicly hosted Web sites.
Application offloading can be used in any of the following scenarios:
- To function as an SSL off loader and add HTTPS support to the offloaded Web application, using SSL acceleration of the SMA appliance.
- In conjunction with the Web Application Firewall subscription service to provide the offloaded Web application continuous protection from malicious Web attacks.
- To add strong or stacked authentication to the offloaded Web application, including Two-factor authentication, One Time Passwords and Client Certificate authentication.
- To control granular access to the offloaded Web application using global, group or user-based access policies.
- To support Web applications not currently supported by HTTP/HTTPS bookmarks. Application Offloading does not require URL rewriting, thereby delivering complete application functionality without compromising throughput.
- To authenticate ActiveSync Application Offloading technology that delivers Web applications using Virtual Hosting and Reverse Proxy. ActiveSync authentication does not require URL rewriting to deliver the Web applications seamlessly. As an example, the ActiveSync protocol is used by a mobile phone’s email client to synchronize with an Exchange server.
Appliance Platforms
Application Offloading and HTTP(S) bookmarks are supported on all the SMA appliances that support the SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 10.2 release:
- SMA 200/400
- SMA 210/410
- SMA 500v for KVM
- SMA 500v for ESXi
- SMA 500v for Hyper-V
- SMA 500v for AWS
- SMA 500v for Azure
HTTP Versions
HTTP(S) bookmarks and application offloading portals support both HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.
Certain performance optimization features, such as caching, compression, SSL hardware acceleration, HTTP connection persistence, TCP connection multiplexing and transfer-chunk encoding for proxies are automatically enabled depending on the usage.
Applications
SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 are supported with application offloading, but not with HTTP(S) bookmarks. The following features have been tested and verified as working well on the indicated browsers:
| SharePoint Features | Browsers |
|---|---|
| Add Announcement | Chrome 119 and later |
| Delete Announcement | Firefox 119.0.1 and later |
| Download Document | |
| Add Document | |
| Delete Document | |
| Add New Item | |
| Delete Item |
The following Web applications have been tested and verified to work with HTTP(S) bookmarks and as offloaded applications:
- Microsoft Outlook on the Web (Exchange 2019)
- Outlook Web Access 2016
Outlook Web Access is supported on the SMA 200/400, SMA 210/410, SMA 500v for KVM, SMA 500v for ESXi, SMA 500v for Hyper-V, SMA 500v for AWS, and SMA 500v for Azure.
- Windows SharePoint 2016 (supported only using App Offloading)
- Windows SharePoint 2019 (supported only using App Offloading)
The integrated client features of SharePoint are not supported.
Exchange ActiveSync is supported on Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, and the latest Android-based phones and tablets.
Application Offloading supports authentication for ActiveSync. ActiveSync is a protocol used by a mobile phone’s email client to synchronize with an Exchange server. The Administrator can create an offloading portal and set the application server host to the backend Exchange server. Then, a user can use the new virtual host name in a mobile phone’s email client and synchronize with the backend Exchange server through the SMA appliance.
Authentication Schemes
The following authentication schemes are supported for use with application offloading and HTTP(S) bookmarks:
- Basic – Collects credentials in the form of a username and password.
- Forms-based authentication – Uses a Web form to collect credentials.
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