Automation That Protects: How SonicWall’s New Remediation Capabilities Raise the Bar

New automated remediation in SonicWall NSM enables faster, more consistent response across distributed environments, helping security teams act decisively when every second counts.

Cyberthreats are evolving faster than ever. As organizations become more connected and environments more distributed, attackers increasingly rely on automation and scale to exploit vulnerabilities the moment they surface. In this landscape, security tools must do more than detect threats; they must be built Secure by Design (SbD), capable of responding with speed, consistency, and intelligence across the entire environment.

SonicWall’s Network Security Manager (NSM) embodies this approach, offering automated remediation for resetting local user passwords and Time-Based One-Time Passwords (TOTP) key bindings. It’s a feature built for today’s reality, where manual, device-by-device response no longer keeps pace.

Automatic Remediation Built for Today’s Threatscape

When urgent remediation is required, time becomes your most valuable resource. For MSPs and MSSPs managing hundreds or thousands of firewalls, manual intervention is not only inefficient but also a significant risk.

The new automated remediation feature directly tackles this issue. It enables security teams to reset local user passwords and their related TOTP bindings across an entire fleet of firewalls with just one action. Whether the requirement covers all tenants, a single organization or a specific group of devices, remediation is now quick, synchronized and scalable.

This is Secure by Design in action: tools that naturally minimize risk, streamline response and strengthen overall posture. This functionality eliminates the opportunity for inconsistency, reduces human error and ensures security actions are applied uniformly across complex, distributed environments.

Strengthening Posture Through Continuous Action

Along with bulk resets, NSM’s new capability supports recurring automated actions, empowering administrators to enforce security hygiene practices proactively rather than reactively.

Recurring password and TOTP resets help maintain long-term integrity across user accounts and ensure organizations aren’t carrying unnecessary exposure. With the new all-tenant reporting feature, MSPs gain clear insights into user status, password activity and reset history, providing visibility that enhances both accountability and informed decision-making.

The Power of Unified Management

Automated remediation is just one example of how SonicWall’s Unified Management strategy translates into real customer value. By centralizing visibility, orchestration and automated response under one platform, SonicWall enables security teams to:

• Manage multi-tenant environments without complexity
• Push changes and policy updates across hundreds of devices simultaneously
• Standardize security practices across all customers
• Reduce operational overhead while improving response time
• Scale protection as environments grow

Unified Management ensures that partners can deliver enterprise-grade protection with consistency and control, regardless of the size of their deployments. As more organizations rely on MSPs and MSSPs, the ability to execute fleet-wide actions with precision is essential.

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Secure by Design, Today and Tomorrow

The introduction of automated remediation in NSM reinforces SonicWall’s ongoing commitment to delivering products that adhere to Secure by Design principles. And this is just the start. SonicWall will continue to invest in automation, simplification and unified protection to help our partners and customers enhance their resilience now and in the future.

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