The performance and security needs of corporate networks have evolved greatly in the last #ve years, driven by changing business and economic demands, di#erent patterns of working and a continuous stream of new technologies. In this environment of ‘Business 2.0’, the network is the organization’s vital beating heart, a strategic business tool used by companies to drive signi#cant competitive advantage. But this central role also brings management, risk and security challenges. This brochure provides a management overview of what’s changed and why. But more importantly, it shows why #exibility, visibility, agility and a#ordability are now the key factors in network decision-making.
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This white paper examines the characteristics of a next-generation solution that helps alleviate the prevailing issues and challenges associated with today’s WLAN implementations. The emergence of products that conform to related criteria holds the key to enabling enterprises to utilize WLANs more widely and to having them more fully realize the important benefits that wireless technology has to offer.
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In the economic downturn, IT budgets are shrinking even as expectations of how technology can help the business are growing. To benefit their companies, IT managers optimize operations, cut costs, anticipate and address problems before they happen, and resolve issues quickly when things go wrong. That means streamlining operations and actively managing their computing infrastructure. In other words, back to basics.
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Organizations that turn a blind eye to the use of new Web-based applications infiltrating the environment are opening the door to security and productivity issues that will only increase over time. What today's organizations should focus on are ways to control the potential threats and bandwidth shortages posed by these applications while empowering users to make the best business use of them. This white paper outlines best practices for controlling applications, protecting data and managing bandwidth in a Web 2.0 world.
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The integration of SonicWALL SSL VPN/Secure Remote Access, SonicWALL Network Security Appliance, and SonicWALL Global Management System solutions offer organizations a single solution for defense-in- depth security. A SonicWALL Clean VPN can detect the identity of users, protect against malware and unauthorized access based on granular policy before authorizing access, and connect authorized users easily to mission-critical network resources. Only SonicWALL is capable of delivering a truly viable Clean VPN, because only SonicWALL can offer a unified policy model allowing dynamic access policies, and the revolutionary ultra-high-performance security of Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection over a multi-core processing platform.
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By addressing the IT need for advanced security as well as the end-user need for convenient, flexible access, SonicWALL secure remote access solutions offer today’s best choice for remote worker productivity. Every day, teleworkers around the globe depend on SonicWALL solutions, enabling them to securely and cost-effectively access protected network resources from the broadest range of remote locations and devices of any SSL VPN vendor today.
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This white paper provides enterprise organizations with an independent, objective guide for building security strategies and evaluating solutions. Security Incite believes UTM solutions are poised to be a big part of the answer to the growing security problem and deserve close consideration.
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The cost of security should be measured not only by list price, but in the sum total of operational performance, implementation, and ongoing management costs. IT is no longer shackled to proprietary vendors and arcane solutions, but can now intelligently select solutions that provide the greatest overall value, while retaining the utmost security and performance. As a relentless innovator in the secure infrastructure market, SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses by engineering the cost out of building and running secure networks.
A SonicWALL Clean VPN can detect the identity of users and security state of the endpoint device, protect against malware and unauthorized access based on granular policy before authorizing access, and connect authorized users easily to mission-critical network resources. Only SonicWALL is capable of delivering a truly viable Clean VPN, because only SonicWALL can offer granular endpoint control, a unified policy model allowing dynamic access policies, and the revolutionary ultra-high-performance security of Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection over a multi-core processing platform.
This paper will help organizations understand the nature and impact of the phenomenon that is Web 2.0 and social networking. Applicable security challenges will be explored and a concise yet comprehensive strategy will be provided for mitigating against them.
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ESG believes that the time is right for a new model it calls 3-D network security that combine broad security functionality and networking integration with massive scale and performance. While this type of “God box” was impossible in the past, it is now achievable to build a 3-D network security system because of recent improvements in microprocessors, IT economics, and development skills.
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SonicWALL Network Security Appliance (NSA) technology greatly exceeds the security and performance of traditional network security solutions by conducting comprehensive Unified Threat Management (UTM) and real-time Deep Packet Inspection over a breakthrough multi-core processor architecture.
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Changing work habits and data center technologies have destroyed the enterprise perimeter as traditionally conceived. End-node-centered security, both desktop- and server-centric, is one key part of defending the new enterprise. Network security addressing defense at every network port is another. Identity not related to network location can unify all security tools, providing the underpinning of policy-driven access control everywhere. The new center of enterprise IT security efforts everywhere – every device, connection, application, and user is the now at the center.
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Having enterprise-class management capabilities is not only a crucial prerequisite to deploying UTM technology in high volume/complex/ critical scenarios, but also the key to unlocking truly meaningful reductions in cost of ownership.
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The need for speed is on the rise. Consequently, the only UTM products suitable for enterprise-class deployments will be those characterized by performance-oriented designs and associated performance-centric feature sets.
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UTM technology de# nitely deserves consideration for enterprise-class implementation scenarios, but only if associated solutions fully address key criteria and the deploying organization is operationally prepared for functional consolidation.
Although robust, coordinated security capabilities are a “must-have” for enterprise-class UTM, a highly effective solution ultimately depends on achieving balance in several related areas.
Peace of mind is in short supply amid IT managers & network administrators. Along with ever-present internal threats, highly paid cyber criminals are always trying to destroy security walls. The best defense is a comprehensive risk management strategy.
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The SonicWALL® Unified Threat Management solution (UTM) provides the most intelligent, real-time network protection against sophisticated application-layer and content-based attacks and is capable of monitoring a wide variety of network communications.
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Regulations simply standardize sensible practices for securely storing, retrieving and transporting electronic information.
The need for end-to-end, secure connectivity has been driven by rapid business growth. Learn about several MPLS and IPSec VPN technologies.
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Ensuring the uninterrupted operation of businesses is an issue of increasing importance not just for large enterprises but for medium and small organizations as well. More than ever before, highly available security solutions are a key business asset that not only protects data, but also helps a company grow by increasing employee productivity and mobility.
This whitepaper examines the issues and complexities of deploying a secure VoIP network, then details SonicWALL’s total VoIP solution.
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This document outlines how small to medium-sized organizations can use a VPN and broad-band Internet access to securely connect geographically dispersed offices and users. Learn how a VPN works, how to evaluate VPN technology options, and how to optimally deploy a VPN solution for your organization. Discover how SonicWALL’s Internet security appliances and VPN solutions make your decision and implementation easier.
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To thrive in an increasingly competitive world, forward-thinking organizations are encouraging workforce mobility and access agility. However, these business objectives cannot be effectively met until companies discard legacy VPN paradigms and adopt secure access solutions that can adapt automatically to evolving mobile device, application, and access technologies while achieving a high degree of end-user transparency and granular policy control. This white paper explains why SonicWALL® Aventail E-Class SSL VPN appliances are replacing yesterday's IPsec VPNs by enabling secure, yet agile, everywhere access to any business application, at any time, using any device, over any network.
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Businesses of all types and sizes are striving to provide broad access to their applications and related information resources. But they must do so in a way that is consistent with the somewhat competing objectives of protecting the privacy of sensitive information, maintaining the integrity and availability of their networked systems, and ensuring compliance with applicable regulations. In practice this means that access to resources will be limited, effectively, to the extent that it can be granularly controlled.
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These 10 trends and technologies put telecommuting on the cusp of a period of rapid growth. Two general categories are stronger today than they have been anytime in the last five years: Financial drivers and enabling technologies. The technology enablers of telecommuting work include reliable secure remote access, wider access to broadband Internet, new collaborative applications, and the popularity of PDAs and smartphones. Add heightened public awareness of global warming and the original push from employees seeking better balance between their work and family lives. This time, telework may actually work.
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This white paper evaluates the technical and business criteria for an effective clientless remote support implementation, and weighs the business benefits and competitive advantages of the SonicWALL® Virtual Assist solution.
Growing public concern about global warming and other environmental issues is spilling over into the business world, where companies are increasingly looking to make their operations more “green” by minimizing their environmental impact. This white paper explores telecommuting and addresses environmental benefits, advantages to employers, advantages to employees, technology requirements and issues to address.
This expert E-book details a 5 point strategy for effectively securing remote access within your organization and features an expert article on how to successfully penetration test your company’s VPN. This ebook concludes with a quiz that helps test your knowledge of IPsec vs. SSL VPNs and details additional resources that help you determine which technology best suits your company’s needs.
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An overview of how teleworking helps meet today’s productivity demands, what additional network security risks anywhere access can create, and how SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SSL VPN solutions addresses these concerns while offering additional benefits for today’s mobile workforce.
In this white paper, you will learn how to assess your VPN needs, identify the limitations and optimal uses of IPSec, understand the benefits of an SSL VPN, consider key remote access configuration variables and examine the particular use cases in which you might keep IPSec.
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This primer explains the basics of SSL VPN technology and includes distinguishing factors between Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) and SSL VPN technologies.
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In contrast, by virtue of their in-depth access control capabilities, SSL VPNs – the actual progenitors of the NAC concept and technology – provide an efficient and effective dose of NAC where it is needed most and with far fewer complications. Essentially, they offer organizations the opportunity to ease their way into broader and more complex NAC initiatives. Furthermore, it is expected that today’s SSL VPN technology will remain a valid component of future enterprise-wide NAC implementations – if not also play an instrumental role in NAC’s eventual maturation.
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The future trend is towards a universal access control model, one which inverts the network so that the protective perimeter is concentrated around application resources.
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One technology has emerged as the leading solution for remote access: SSL VPNs— virtual private networks utilizing secure sockets layer (SSL) security protocols. SSL VPNs are best suited for secure remote access during an emergency because they allow workers and partners to connect safely through the Internet to corporate network resources. This document explores best practices for disaster recovery and the role of SSL VPNs in that process.
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Businesses today face the challenge of effectively securing mobile access and providing access only to those resources appropriate for particular users and devices. SonicWALL offers an SSL VPN with features specifically designed for mobile devices that address common challenges faced by organizations. With the SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPN, one security architecture protects all forms of remote access, including access from handheld devices and notebook computers.
Companies are embracing wireless technologies to increase productivity, provide more flexible work arrangements for their employees, and work more closely with their business partners. Wireless technologies include both local area and wide area systems. However, the multiplicity of networking options as well as computing platforms creates significant security issues.
The maturing of SSL VPN as a remote access gateway and the escalating adoption of SSL VPN by businesses big and small in our view are testaments that this risk management and business supporting solution should be on the “must list” for evaluation by all businesses with remote access needs. The challenge, like the uniqueness in risk profiles and tolerances, is that there is no one-size-fits-all SSL VPN gateway. Therefore, aligning the SSL VPN gateway with the best mix of capabilities for the business firm is prudent but challenging. In this bulletin, we will tackle this challenge head-on by introducing an SSL VPN selection framework.
New Generation of Managed Appliances Provide Disaster Recovery and Improve Business Continuity - With a new product that links networks securely over a cellular data network, "business continuity" goes native and unwired. Better yet, these systems work more easily and are more manageable than ever.
Telecommuting benefits the employee and the company, the community and the environment. With the right security measures in place, there’s no need to delay in creating a remote worker policy that’s right for your organization.
Information is the lifeblood of most businesses. However, without a reliable, convenient, and secure means to exchange information with users, business suffers. In the past, electronic information exchange was not an issue for many businesses. Their needs were self-contained; limited to connecting on-site employees from their corporate-owned desktops to a limited number of applications.
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Phishing is not new and businesses have fought the phisher since the beginning of e-commerce. But just as business practices evolve to keep pace with emerging technology, phishers also adapt to the new opportunities that technology offers. Nevertheless, by understanding phishing as a distinct and more sophisticated type of email threat, and by seeking solutions designed specifically to stop phishing e-mail, you can protect yourself and your organization.
Effective e-mail security solutions must protect users from all types of e-mail threats. However, each threat must be treated differently to address its unique properties. Bayesian filtering has been successfully combating spam. However, this same filter cannot be applied to phishing. Instead, a Bayesian phishing filter can be created through layering different features which are strong indicators of phishing. Test results show that Bayesian rules can be effectively applied to identifying phishing. This identification allows phishing e-mails to be uniquely categorized. Even if recipients can not recognize the e-mails as phishing, the e-mails can be securely removed from the inbox and labeled appropriately, helping to keep users safe.
The SonicWALL GRID Network collaboratively gathers, analyzes and vets cross-vector threat information from millions of business oriented sources around the world. Reputation-based threat protection information is then distributed securely, anonymously and in real time to improve the overall effectiveness of SonicWALL security solutions. Due to the distributed nature of this network and the use of multiple different data sources, the evaluation from one contributor can be vetted against multiple other contributors, allowing the GRID’s collaborative filtering process to be highly accurate and fully self-correcting.
Several industry developments, including reputation services, sender authentication, and the Domain Assurance Council, are reviewed.Most of the current email defensive technologies today have some drawbacks. This white paper discusses the key areas where IT departments and the majority of end users experience the greatest difficulties, together with an indication of whether these problems have been getting worse over the past six months, including spam control, anti-virus, deliverability problems, and performance and scalability.
This Vendor Spotlight examines the evolution of information protection and control (IPC) solutions in their quest to discover, protect, and control information contained in data in motion, data at rest, and data in use to help organizations of all sizes and vertical industries. This Vendor Spotlight also contains a helpful checklist for selecting a security vendor and examines the role of SonicWALL in this strategically important market.
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New e-mail protections are now available to ensure the safety, privacy and security of corporate networks, data and personnel. The increased sophistication, versatility and effectiveness of e-mail security solutions have been paired with improved ease-of- use, providing a transparent, simply managed barrier against spam, phishing and other inbound e-mail-based attacks as well as outbound compliance.
Strategies to reduce risk and seal off unsuspected new holes in the communications perimeter.
E-mail must be protected not only from incoming threats, but it must also be monitored, screened and in some cases, retained for compliance with a host of laws and regulations. E-mail policies must be created, administered and monitored and violators must be discovered and sanctioned.
The need for secure content, current technology directions, solution alternative and application examples.
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The need for secure content, current technology directions, solution alternatives and application examples.
Use of technology in the workplace has grown exponentially over the past few years. We are at a time when literally every employee has access to the Internet and the corporate e-mail system. That access affords employees use of a communications medium that may result in substantial liability for their employers.
Innovative website caching and rating architecture delivers an affordable, enterprise-class filtering solution for businesses, schools, and libraries.
New Generation of Managed Appliances Provide Disaster Recovery and Improve Business Continuity - Now, modern SSL VPN appliances support clients without the need for special software, and they charge by the appliance, not the user. This allows companies to use remote access for regular connections like remote offices and traveling laptops, just like always. But it also allows a company to keep running if no one can get to the office, such as during bad weather. Since you can't plan ahead for weather so bad it makes travel difficult, flexibility and no per-use charges make an SSL VPN appliance a key part of your business continuity plan.
Bottom line: It’s not the size of the organization that determines the value of the data that is generated. Mission-critical data is mission-critical data regardless of who produces it, and deserves appropriate protection. That said, SMBs face a number of different challenges that larger organizations don’t (and vice versa), which necessitate some key differences in data protection strategies.
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This paper will discuss the benefits of using CDP-based solutions, particularly in place of traditional, tape-based backup products that currently dominate the SMB market.
Ensuring Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance requires expert understanding of data storage and encryption requirements, device integration considerations, and logging and reporting parameters for distributed networks. The award-winning SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) helps organizations meet the stringent PCI requirements by offering centralized management of security rules and policies across a distributed environment, real-time monitoring and logging services, and historical compliance reporting for deployments of all sizes.
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School budgets have not kept up with the explosive pace of instructional Internet access, or the corresponding threat to academic and administrative resources. This paper explores trends in academic Internet use, the budgetary arguments for greater information security, and funding considerations unique to academic environments. SonicWALL solutions provide powerful, granular and complete security solutions that reduce the cost and complexity of running educational networks.
Wireless networking is being incorporated into many educational environments to add flexibility and increase productivity. This paper examines security issues to consider when evaluating security solutions for academic wireless networks. The SonicWALL Secure Distributed Wireless Solution offers schools and school districts with a comprehensive, cost-effective approach to implementing and extending wireless academic networks.
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SonicWALL® Network Security Appliance (NSA), SSL VPN and Global Management System (GMS) solutions integrate seamlessly to provide a layered solution for securing financial services beyond the perimeter. The entire line of SonicWALL solutions are engineered to reduce the cost and complexity of network security, while delivering comprehensive security and high performance.
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Telecommuting or telework has been gaining momentum as a leading employment practice at all levels of government. SonicWALL delivers dual protection for telework based on its Clean VPN approach to security. It delivers not only secure SSL VPN remote access but also protects the integrity of VPN tra#c with high-performance Uni#ed Threat Management (UTM). A SonicWALL Clean VPN allows agencies to safely extend their networks for anywhere, anytime access and thus increase productivity, collaborate with Web 2.0, e#ciently manage workforce shifts, reduce operational costs and work green.
In order to achieve its goals, the information networks government uses to connect various constituencies must be secure from intrusion and disruption. This should not be an additional category of hardware, software and services. Rather, it should be an essential quality of the system components selected.
Everybody agrees that information is critical to the treatment of any patient. Giving caregivers access to that information anytime from anywhere can yield important productivity gains. But users need to be sure that the information will be accurate, timely and confidential. SonicWALL provides comprehensive solutions to meet all these needs and securely extend the reach of the healthcare community.
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By addressing the issues around network security, the way is cleared for improving productivity in healthcare organizations.
This document provides an overview of HIPAA regulations with a particular emphasis on the final Security Rule. It presents SonicWALL’s broad range of cost-effective Internet security solutions, outlining how they help healthcare organizations meet HIPAA requirements.
As the business outlook has darkened during the past few months, so have the restless sleeping patterns of top-level retail executives. Coping with the new realities of today’s economic climate requires retailers to sharpen their focus on what matters most, and to commit their organizations to a short but highly strategic priority list. The first step is deciding which priorities to focus on: labor, inventory, financial management, and ITmanagement. The next step—and it’s a crucial one—is managing all of these priorities with impeccable execution and flawless efficiency.
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SonicWALL, a leading provider of security solutions, enables retailers to adopt a holistic approach to security that can ensure a competitive advantage. Through a scalable portfolio of security solutions featuring an advanced range of Web security, voice, wireless, and remote access technologies, SonicWALL helps retailers protect the complex retail environment, accelerate customer loyalty, and remain productive and profitable.
Retailers stand to gain more competitive advantages in the marketplace from technology than ever before, with corresponding gains in cost reduction, revenue opportunities and customer satisfaction. To secure this competitive edge, however, retailers must take a comprehensive approach to protecting their technology from increasingly sophisticated threats. SonicWALL is committed to providing retailers of all size with solutions of greater security value than the competition, at a significantly lower total cost of ownership, through purpose-built solutions designed to address retail’s unique security requirements.
An essential element of PCI compliance is to secure networks to protect confidential information and defend against the devastating effects of security breaches, viruses and worms.
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Leveraging technology to improve internal operations, dealings with suppliers and customer service.
Constant VPN connectivity, enhanced wireless security, and central management enable new POS productivity applications.
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NOTE: SonicWALL and its authorized partners will not share, sell, rent or trade your personal information.
