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    City of Alexandria

    With Dell SonicWALL Email Security, the City of Alexandria consolidated appliances, achieved a 95 percent reduction in spam and saved $30,000.

    19 May 2012 / PDF: 1.100 MB / CS-275
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    Ross Education, LLC

    Ross Education, LLC extends remote access and gains control of mobile devices with Dell SonicWALL Aventail, GMS and NSA solutions.

    9 May 2012 / PDF: 0.980 MB / CS-274
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    Financial Medical Systems

    Employing one of the region's largest private medical billing teams, Financial Medical Systems (FMS) performs billing and follow-up activities for over 1,000 hospital-based physicians and independent practitioners. FMS is able to provide its customers with greater flexibility and customization by developing their own proprietary systems in-house. “We're one of the few medical billing companies that develop their own homegrown software,” said Ralph Marra, chief information officer. “A lot of others use off-the-shelf or third-party software.”

    2 May 2012 / PDF: 0.320 MB / CS-110
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    Things Remembered

    Things Remembered is the largest retailer of personalized gifts in the US, with over 5,000 employees and 615 stores. The Ohio-based company deployed SonicWALL® Network Security Appliance (NSA) Series and TZ Series firewalls to achieve PCI-compliant security for a distributed network.

    30 Apr 2012 / PDF: 0.880 MB / CS-273
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    Our Kids

    Our Kids of Miami-Dade/Monroe, Inc. is the non-profit lead agency for community-based care in Miami and the Florida Keys. Since 2005, the agency has provided foster care, adoptions and related services for more than 3,500 abused, abandoned and neglected children and their families. As a contractor with the State of Florida, Our Kids receives state and federal funding. The agency employs approximately 200 personnel and works with over 1,000 community providers who require different levels of access to their database.

    27 Apr 2012 / PDF: 0.450 MB / CS-246
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    Pleasanton Unified School District

    Established in 1867, the Pleasanton Unified School District is a public primary and secondary education school district located in Pleasanton, California. The district serves approximately 14,500 students in nine elementary schools, three middle schools, two high schools and one continuation high school. In addition, the district offers adult education courses that are attended by hundreds of community members each year. The district recently replaced its Cisco® firewall infrastructure with paired SonicWALL® E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E7500 Next-Generation Firewalls, resulting in increased bandwidth, enhanced performance, greater uptime and application intelligence and control.

    27 Apr 2012 / PDF: 0.520 MB / CS-262

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Data Sheets

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    SonicWALL Product Lines

    Dell SonicWALL provides intelligent network security and data protection solutions that enable customers and partners to dynamically secure, control, and scale their global networks. Using input from millions of shared touch points in the Dell SonicWALL Global Response Intelligent Defense (GRID) Network, the Dell SonicWALL Threat Center provides continuous communication, feedback, and analysis on the nature and changing behavior of threats.

    17 May 2012 / PDF: 6.270 MB / DS-65
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    SonicWALL E-Class Product Line

    Dell® SonicWALL® E-Class represents a new generation of comprehensive solutions for network security, secure remote access, email security, and policy and management. Engineered to deliver solutions that are intelligent enough to adapt as organizations evolve and as threats evolve—dynamically and globally. Delivering sophistication and broad scalability, E-Class solutions automatically anticipate and adapt to emerging threats, securing any user, device or application from anywhere, with maximum ease of deployment, and at the best economic value in a compliant framework.

    17 May 2012 / PDF: 2.490 MB / DS-75
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    Mobile Connect for iOS

    The SonicWALL® Mobile Connect™ unified client app for iOS provides Apple iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod touch® users with superior network-level access to corporate, academic and government resources over encrypted SSL VPN connections. SonicWALL is the only vendor to provide solutions for full malware scanning of the SSL encrypted traffic, application control and jailbreak detection for iOS devices.

    15 May 2012 / PDF: 1.180 MB / DS-371
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    New TZ Series

    The SonicWALL® TZ Series is the most secure Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewall for small businesses, retail deployments, remote sites, branch offices and distributed enterprises. Unlike consumer-grade products, the TZ Series delivers the most effective anti-malware, intrusion prevention, content/URL filtering and application control capabilities along with the broadest most secure mobile platform support for laptops, smartphones and tablets. It provides full deep packet inspection (DPI) at very high performance levels, eliminating the network bottleneck that other products introduce, and enabling organizations to realize increased productivity gains. The TZ Series is the most secure, sophisticated and widely-deployed security platform on the market today.

    27 Apr 2012 / PDF: 2.210 MB / DS-387
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    Comprehensive Anti-Spam Service (CASS)

    The SonicWALL® Comprehensive Anti-Spam Service delivers advanced spam protection at the network gateway. With just one click, this service can be activated on SonicWALL TZ, NSA, E-Class NSA Series security appliances and will immediately begin to filter SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) email traffic to remove spam, phishing and even virus-laden email. The hybrid-cloud design of the service simplifies set-up while optimizing protection. There is no need to redirect mail exchanger (MX) records, nor do you need to send your email to yet another vendor to be “cleaned.” Simply activate the service and stop spam before it enters your network.

    13 Apr 2012 / PDF: 1.300 MB / DS-88
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    SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Intrusion Prevention, and Application Intelligence and Control Service

    SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Intrusion Prevention and Application Intelligence and Control Service is available as a standalone one, two or three-year subscription service on all SonicWALL TZ, Network Security Appliance (NSA) and E-Class NSA Series appliances or it is included with either TotalSecure or Comprehensive Gateway Security Suite subscriptions.

    13 Apr 2012 / PDF: 0.890 MB / DS-44

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e-Books

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    Anatomy of a Cyber-Attack

    As the number and severity of cyber-crimes continues to grow, it's important to understand the steps cyber-criminals take to attack your network, the types of malware they use, and the tools you need to stop them. The basic steps of a cyber attack include reconnaissance (finding vulnerabilities); intrusion (actual penetration of the network); malware insertion (secretly leaving code behind); and clean-up (covering tracks).

    25 Apr 2012 / PDF: 2.900 MB / EB-243
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    Mobility, Security and the Enterprise

    Many technologies that enterprises adopt for their information systems often have roots in consumer applications.1 More employees are extending their workday and increasing office efficiency by leveraging the same technology they use to enhance their personal lives—in particular, smartphone and tablet devices. Many corporate end users do not allow IT to dictate which smartphone or tablet platform they can use. A growing number will use whatever application, device or technology they want, regardless of corporate IT policies.2 IT has effectively lost its ability to completely mandate the choice of smartphone or tablet access in a corporate setting. This ebook details the 10 best practices for controlling smartphone and tablet access to corporate networks.

    1 Feb 2012 / PDF: 4.490 MB / EB-238
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    Controlling Laptop and Smartphone Access to Corporate Networks

    With company-issued, IT-controlled laptops, IT has traditionally had the option to lock down the operating system to prevent the installation of potentially insecure or non-approved applications. This consumerization of IT (as well as the budgetary incentive of offsetting inventory costs) has led companies to establish “bring your own device” (BYOD) policies that enable employees to select their own personal mobile devices for use at work

    14 Dec 2011 / PDF: 2.990 MB / EB-236
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    10 Ways to Securely Optimize Your Network

    SonicWALL's advanced security platform uniquely consolidates core Next-Gen Firewall application intelligence, control and visualization, gateway protection and SSL inspection for enterprises along with WAN acceleration for distributed offices, elements that work seamlessly together to maximize security and control. The following e-book outlines 10 ways SonicWALL solutions can help optimize performance, enhance security, and increase employee productivity, without introducing latency.

    13 Oct 2011 / PDF: 3.570 MB / EB-46
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    Clean Wireless - Adding Security, Performance, Manageability and Value to Wireless Deployments

    Wireless LANs (WLANs) offer the flexibility to work from more locations, boosting productivity for employees, on-site partners, contractors, and guests. At retail and professional settings, such as cafés or clinic waiting rooms, WLANs enhance customer experience and satisfaction, increasing sales and loyalty. WLANs can also off set costs of deploying a wired infrastructure. WLANs can also be used to off set the cost of deploying a wired infrastructure.

    6 Apr 2011 / PDF: 1.430 MB / EB-5
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    Beyond the Tipping Point: 10 Best Practices for Controlling Smartphone Access to the Corporate Network

    Many technologies that enterprises adopt for their information systems often have roots in consumer applications. More employees are extending their workday and increasing efficiency by leveraging the same technology they use to enhance their personal lives—in particular, Web-enabled smartphone and smart-pad devices. Corporate end users do not allow IT to dictate what smartphone platform they can use. A growing number will use whatever application, device or technology they want, regardless of corporate IT policies. IT has effectively lost its ability to constrain the choice of smartphone access in a corporate setting.

    2 Mar 2011 / PDF: 3.560 MB / EB-44

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Business Solutions

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    You Tube for Schools Solution Brief

    With YouTube for Schools enabled by a SonicWALL® Next-Generation Firewall, school administrators and teachers can log in and watch any video. Students cannot access the administrator level, and they can only watch YouTube EDU videos plus videos their school has added. Any web requests by students to go to the regular YouTube.com site get automatically redirected to YouTube EDU. All comments and related videos are disabled and search is limited to YouTube EDU videos. All schools get access to all of the YouTube EDU content, but teachers and administrators can also create playlists of videos that are viewable only within their school's network.

    25 Apr 2012 / PDF: 0.070 MB / SB-94
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    Helping Schools Secure Their Networks While Saving Their Budgets

    The challenges facing grade school educators are greater than ever before. The standards for academic achievement and the expectations of students' families continue to climb. At the same time, education budgets are tighter. Schools' technology infrastructures are caught in the middle, requiring K-12 IT administrators to literally do more with less. Networked resources have addressed some qualitative issues. Online instruction materials and classroom management services supplement teachers' capabilities and free them from administrative chores. In addition, self-service portals and email communications increase the efficiency and effectiveness of administrative staff. This reliance on the Internet brings new challenges. As the user population grows to include on- and off-campus students, faculty, administrators, contractors and parents, so do the threats to the network's security. This is further compounded by the ever-changing threat landscape. What K-12 IT administrators need is a network and information security solution that is effective, high-performing, flexible, and easy to manage. These are the types of solutions that only SonicWALL® delivers.

    10 Apr 2012 / PDF: 1.460 MB / SB-29
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    Security, Manageability and Scalability for the Distributed Network

    In recent years, the distributed enterprise has changed dramatically. The traditional model consisted of a central brick-and-mortar headquarters and multiple brick-and-mortar branch locations. While this hub and-spoke model is still appropriate in certain cases, it no longer reflects the breadth of global business and network opportunities available. Today's modern distributed enterprise is everywhere.

    27 Mar 2012 / PDF: 1.570 MB / SB-82
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    SonicWALL Report Portfolio

    SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS), Analyzer Reports and SonicWALL Scrutinizer Reports

    9 Mar 2012 / PDF: 2.370 MB / SB-92
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    Secure Network Optimization Solution Brief

    The SonicWALL® Secure Network Optimization solution tightly integrates SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewall Application Intelligence andControl, and Deep Packet Inspection scanning, Application Traffic Analytics, along with the WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) Series, enablingorganizations to:1. Identify network inefficiencies through real-time traffic visualization and applicaiton traffic analytics2. Reduce the amount of data sent between corporate and remote/branch offices3. Easily block undesirable applications on the network4. Bandwidth manage applications to accelerate business critical applications5. Increase security through DPI scanning of all traffic, ensuring all data is secure before it is accelerated over the WAN6. Consolidate management of application Intelligence and control, DPI Scanning, application traffic analytics, WAN acceleration and VPN from a single interface

    5 Oct 2011 / PDF: 0.110 MB / SB-79
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    Business Insight - Enabling Protection, Control and Performance with Secure Network Optimization

    The Distributed Office Scenario: A number of critical issues and ongoing developments are driving both a need for better network security and for network optimization between office locations.

    13 Sep 2011 / PDF: 0.580 MB / SB-86

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White Papers

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    Why Protection and Perfrormance Matter

    Performance and protection go hand-in-hand for Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs). Organizations should not have to sacrifice throughput and productivity for security. Outdated firewalls pose a serious security risk to organizations since they fail to inspect data payload of network packets. Many vendors tout Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) speeds only, but the real measure of security and performance is deep packet inspection throughput and effectiveness. To address this deficiency, many firewall vendors adopted the malware inspection approach used by traditional desktop anti-virus: buffer downloaded files, then inspect for malware. This method not only introduces significant latency and but also poses significant security risks since temporary memory storage can limit the maximum file size. Independent NSS Lab tests demonstrate that the SonicWALL® SuperMassive™ E10800 Next-Generation Firewall incorporating multi-core architecture and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® (RFDPI) overcome these limitations to provide enterprises with both extremely high-levels of protection and performance that they require.

    12 May 2012 / PDF: 0.150 MB / WP-114
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    The Promises and Pitfalls of BYOD

    The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend is in full swing, as enterprises arebeginning to realize a number of benefits from letting employees choose thedevice they use to get their jobs done. According to the Computerworld“Consumerization of IT” study published in October 2011, about half of the 604respondents said their organizations allow employees to do work using their owndevices either away from the office or at work. These companies know that byallowing employees to use personal devices they are improving productivity andjob satisfaction. What's more, enterprises can significantly reduce costs aswell as embrace the concept of virtual teams by leverag¬ing geographicallydispersed talent. Businesses can also allow for flexible work hours by lettingworkers use their device of choice—be it a smartphone, tablet or laptop— anytime, from anywhere.

    9 May 2012 / PDF: 1.410 MB / WP-113
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    Why Protection and Performance Matter

    Performance and protection go hand-in-hand for Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs). Organizations should not have to sacrifice throughput and productivity for security. Outdated firewalls pose a serious security risk to organizations since they fail to inspect data payload of network packets. Many vendors tout Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) speeds only, but the real measure of security and performance is deep packet inspection throughput and effectiveness. To address this deficiency, many firewall vendors adopted the malware inspection approach used by traditional desktop anti-virus: buffer downloaded files, then inspect for malware. This method not only introduces significant latency and but also poses significant security risks since temporary memory storage can limit the maximum file size. Independent NSS Lab tests demonstrate that the SonicWALL® SuperMassive™ E10800 Next-Generation Firewall incorporating multi-core architecture and Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® (RFDPI) overcome these limitations to provide enterprises with both extremely high-levels of protection and performance that they require.

    30 Apr 2012 / PDF: 0.150 MB / WP-112
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    The Wild World of Malware: Keeping Your Company Safe

    Malware continues to plague the business network landscape. But even as the criminals producing malware have become larger and more sophisticated, the technology to thwart them has grown equally sophisticated. Now even the smallest companies can enjoy levels of protection that essentially inoculate them from many forms of malware. And these companies can do so cost effectively. By recognizing the threat contemporary malware represents, and by implementing a contemporary security solution, the wild world of malware can be left in the wild. And business can proceed safely, efficiently, and profitably.

    16 Mar 2012 / PDF: 0.150 MB / WP-104
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    IDC Vendor Spotlight: A Perfect Security Storm Challenges Higher Education

    The network security needs of higher education institutions are ever-changing and vendors that want to remain successful must adapt. Organizations are demanding great flexibility in the solutions they purchase. Acquiring an additional box for every new threat that is identified is no longer an option. Companies want to know that their investment will be protected and will scale as they grow. Increasingly integrated solutions and virtual security appliances are being considered to address these needs.

    27 Jan 2012 / PDF: 0.710 MB / WP-101
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    Twelve Ways Applications and Users Are Draining Your Bandwidth and How to Fix It

    Network managers and business owners struggle with the ever-growing demands for more bandwidth on their networks. They typically buy more bandwidth to try to catch up to demand, but the cost, even with declining pricing for Internet connections in some areas, can soon become a money pit. They are looking for better solutions because of cost or limitations in infrastructure. Isn't there a better way to obtain fast and secure data transmissions across a business's multiple locations?

    26 Sep 2011 / PDF: 0.190 MB / WP-95

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Interactive Demos & Guided Tours

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Live Webinars

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    The Top 10 Trends Driving IT Security in 2012

    Information networks are staged for tectonic changes in 2012. Users’ endpoint devices are proliferating across a range of platforms and OSs. Network resources are being virtualized. And the threats to systems and data are becoming more sophisticated and pervasive. Find out what all this means for IT security technologies and techniques.

    1 Feb 2012 / LW-126
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    Enabling Security and Bandwidth Optimization on Higher Education Networks

    The emergence of IT trends such as Web 2.0 and mobility present a challenging balancing act for colleges and universities across the nation. While social media and “Anytime, Anywhere Learning” clearly enrich the learning experience, these developments present IT administrators with an ever-growing list of educational and administrative demands on their network. New bandwidth–hungry Web 2.0 applications and social media sites are overwhelming networks and first-generation firewalls are failing to stop the invasion of application-based threats. Clearly, higher ed IT administrators need to find a better way to manage bandwidth and security on the new application-centric network. Join this webinar to learn from leading security experts on how to use next-generation firewalls to provide content filtering, bandwidth management and prioritization of application traffic for VoIP, video conferencing and social media resources.

    12 Oct 2011 / LW-42

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On-Demand Webinars

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    Merry Phishmas 2011

    Join product line manager Swarup Selvaraman from SonicWALL as he reviews the most interesting phishing attacks from 2011. Learn how creative techniques are used to gain illicit access to your personal and confidential information and find out why the holiday season is a particularly busy time for attackers. Educate yourself on ways to protect your organization by attending this informational webinar.

    22 Dec 2011 / ODW-125
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    Reducing Application Latency and Over-Burdened WANs with WAN Acceleration

    The emergence of collaboration applications such as Microsoft SharePoint and Windows File Share present a challenging balancing act for enterprises today. These applications not only overburden available WAN bandwidth by transmitting an increasing number of files and data sets over WANs, but essentially increase WAN traffic. IT often responds by expending budget on more bandwidth or enhanced services. Join this webinar to learn from leading security experts how to use WAN Acceleration to prioritize and minimize application traffic between remote and branch offices, and in turn optimize your network performance.

    20 Dec 2011 / ODW-123
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    How to Enable BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) at Work

    Join SonicWALL's Patrick Sweeney, VP of Product Management, as he offers up practical advice on how to enable mobility in your workforce. People are increasingly demanding the ability to use their personal communications devices to access email and network resources when they are away from the office. Come learn how to embrace this trend to allow people to use iPhones, iPads, Android phones and more not only at home but also at work.

    9 Dec 2011 / ODW-124
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    Exploring the Digital Underworld: Botnets, Zero Day Threats and Phishing

    Organized crime has shifted to the digital underworld. As a result a host of new techniques have appeared – designed to steel data, money and wreak havoc. Millions of businesses worldwide are currently exposed to these new and sophisticate threats. In this session we will take a look at some of the most dangerous – Botnets, Zero Day Threats and Phishing. We look at the anatomy of these threats, give real-world examples of how they are being used and give you tips on how best to defend yourself.

    7 Dec 2011 / ODW-122
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    Next-Generation Firewall and Content Filtering for K-12: An Analysis of Vendors

    IT security professionals at K-12 schools face a growing list of educational and administrative demands on their network. Legacy firewall and web filtering products have failed to keep pace with requirements stemming from new learning initiatives – such as the 21st century classroom and anytime/anywhere learning. This paper discusses how Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) address the network security, bandwidth management, and content filtering challenges currently facing today’s K-12 organizations. NGFWs deliver a comprehensive and highly granular solution for network security, bandwidth optimization, application visibility, and content control that reduces the cost and complexity of running educational networks. This paper provides a hard-hitting competitive analysis of leading NGFWs and Content Filtering solutions from the following vendors: Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper, Lightspeed, SonicWALL and Websense.

    16 Nov 2011 / ODW-120
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    Next-Generation Firewall Deployments: Lessons from the Front Lines

    Many organizations are now migrating to Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) solutions to improve security, consolidate functionality and ensure compliance. In this session we will examine the cyber security challenges faced by real world companies and how they used Next-Generation Firewall solutions to solve them. You will also hear live from The Spence Group Services, a distributed enterprise with 56 retail outlets - about how they used a Next-Generation Firewall solution to simplify and improve security while getting PCI Compliant.

    9 Nov 2011 / ODW-121

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