The SonicWALL® Clean Wireless™ solution goes beyond mere secure wireless solutions by making wireless networks as secure as wired networks using deep packet inspection. SonicWALL Clean Wireless delivers the innovative dual protection that you need and that can:
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1Encrypt and protect wireless traffic on the high speed 802.11n wireless networks.
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2Clean the traffic and protect the wireless network using high-speed Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection to deliver comprehensive protection from viruses, spyware and other attacks.
The dual protection of the SonicWALL Clean Wireless solution secures the wireless network by encrypting wireless traffic and decontaminating it from network threats while also protecting the network from wireless attacks. Now, you never have to settle for one-dimensional secure wireless that only provides traffic encryption.
The World Has Gone Wireless
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) offer the flexibility to work from more locations, boosting productivity for employees, on-site partners, contractors, and guests. WLANs can also enhance the customer experience at retail and professional settings such as cafés or waiting rooms, increasing satisfaction, sales and loyalty. Additionally, WLANs can also be used to offset the cost of deploying a wired infrastructure.
Wireless = Increased Exposure
WLANs have greatly extended the productivity of today’s mobile workforce. While offering many benefits, WLANs are also a source of many security concerns. Well-publicized stories about past WEP vulnerabilities, “war driving” (roaming hackers searching for vulnerable WiFi wireless networks) and other wireless network infiltration techniques have raised awareness of the need for a tighter wireless security solution.
With wireless networking moving from mere convenience to an integral part of networking infrastructure, security for wireless networks has to be on par with wired networks running deep packet inspection/Unified Threat Management (UTM). To be as secure as wired, WLANs need additional security that can protect the integrity of the wireless network as well as the integrity of the traffic running over it.
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Integrity of the Wireless Network
The integrity of the wireless network can be compromised by intrusion attacks, rogue access points and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, leading to down time, reduced productivity, bandwidth consumption, and data theft.
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Integrity of the Wireless Traffic
The integrity of the wireless traffic can also be compromised by leaked confidential business data, such as financial records, customer databases, and intellectual property. Additionally, the unauthorized, inadvertent, or malicious transmittal of sensitive private information such as credit card, stock trading or medical records can expose an organization to liability and noncompliance with regulations such as PCI, HIPAA and GLBA.
SonicWALL Clean Wireless
SonicWALL® Clean Wireless combines the award-winning network security of SonicWALL TZ, Network Security Appliance (NSA) or E-Class NSA firewalls with SonicPoint-N Dual-Band or SonicPoint access points into a powerful solution that delivers a highly secure and scalable wireless environment. The SonicWALL Clean Wireless solution goes beyond mere secure wireless solutions by making wireless networks as secure as wired networks using deep packet inspection, delivering organizations of all sizes greater security, value, performance, and ease of management.
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Dual Protection
Clean Wireless offers multilayered dual protection, delivering both (1) encryption of the wireless traffic and (2) maximum security for the wireless traffic itself through its intrusion prevention and traffic sanitization. Because SonicWALL Clean Wireless not only encrypts traffic but also adds high-speed Unified Threat Management (UTM) traffic inspection and attack prevention, your business never again has to settle for one-dimensional encryption-only secure wireless security.
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Higher Performance
Providing wireless services to more users and applications can potentially decrease network performance. Wireless networks now need to be capable of supporting latency-sensitive applications like Voice/Video over IP (VoIP) to guarantee adequate quality of service (QoS) levels. SonicWALL Clean Wireless meets that performance challenge with the release of SonicOS 5.2 in which SonicWALL has integrated high-speed 802.11n technology—capable of delivering throughput up to 300 Mbps—on its Clean Wireless platform for all E-Class NSA, NSA and TZ 210 Unified Threat Management firewalls.
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Ease of Management
With the addition of more wireless services, deployment, configuration and ongoing management become increasingly complex. This is especially true for solutions with a wider range of features and functionality. Ideally, a solution should simplify not only the deployment, but ongoing management as well. To simplify both, SonicPoints are auto-detected, auto-provisioned, and auto-updated, thus significantly reducing IT maintenance overhead. Additionally, SonicWALL expanded PoE Injectors ease complex deployments by providing power to the SonicPoints over Ethernet.
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Lower Cost of Ownership
Complexity can add cost. In order to establish tighter wireless security, IT has often supplemented existing WPA2 or WIDS/WIPS deployments by adding separate firewall, VPN, IPS or multi-function UTM devices behind the Wireless Access Switch/Controller (WAC). But this multiplies hardware costs. SonicWALL Clean Wireless minimizes TCO and complexity by enabling central management of both wired and wireless networks from a single SonicWALL network security appliance, without the added costs of multiple wireless controllers and security appliances.
