[German]Brief information for users of SonicWall 100 Series Secure Access Gateways. As a reader informed me in an email this week, SonicWall appears to be planning to discontinue support for SonicWall SMA100 Series models soon. According to a statement from a SonicWall partner, support is set to end on October 31, 2025. The Secure Mobile Access (SMA) series provides comprehensive security for remote access to corporate resources hosted on-premises, in the cloud, and in hybrid data centers.
Reader tip about end of support
Blog reader Dirk W. contacted me by email two days ago and wrote that his company runs SonicWall "SMA 500v for ESXi" as a virtual machine (VM) in a vCenter environment, with 100 VPN licenses on the appliance. The reader wrote that the subscription for SonicWall had just been renewed and would expire in mid-September 2026.
Readers have now received news from the SonicWall partner portal. Customers are being informed that SonicWall is bringing forward the end-of-support (EOS) date for all SMA100 devices to October 31, 2025. The reason given for this is that in recent months, vulnerabilities in older VPN appliances such as the SMA 100 series have been increasingly exploited by cybercriminals. This is an industry-wide challenge that has prompted SonicWall to accelerate the EOS schedule. The following information can be found on the SonicWall website:
Note: SMA100 is no longer available and will soon no longer be supported. Visit our product lifecycle page for more information and to learn how you can take advantage of our exclusive trade-in offer to upgrade from SMA100 to our cloud-native remote access solution, Cloud Secure Edge (CSE).
The reader is quite annoyed that SonicWall is taking a very "creative" approach to the security issues with its older products. "Fixing problems is a thing of the past; forced migration is the new motto," says the reader. He now has just two months to decide on one of the three upgrade alternatives on offer. The following products are affected (excerpt from the website linked in the message):
SMA210, SMA410, SMA500v with support expiration > Oct. 31, 2025 or SMA210, SMA410 registered after Oct. 31, 2022.
The reader considers it a mockery that there is talk of an "accelerated end-of-support schedule." The statement: "Due to significant security vulnerabilities in older VPN appliances, SonicWall will deactivate all SMA 100 devices on October 31, 2025," is simply a bad joke, according to the reader.
