Stronger Protection, Lower Costs: Superior Management with SonicWall

Take control of your network with smarter tools, stronger firewalls, and simpler management built to help businesses and MSPs thrive.

Today, businesses depend on their networks to run efficiently and securely while lowering overall business costs. Doing this requires managing their networks, including setup, daily maintenance and infrastructure support. Superior Management goes a step further, ensuring network systems are optimized for growth, security and cost-efficiency.

SonicWall is taking its management solutions to the next level with the release of Network Security Manager (NSM) 3.0 and the new NSa 2800 and NSa 3800 firewalls. These latest product innovations provide enhanced reporting, simplify management and increase automation — making network management more efficient while streamlining operations and lowering overall costs.

Network Security Manager 3.0, Powering SonicPlatform

Network Security Manager 3.0 is SonicWall’s latest version of its next-generation centralized management platform, designed to simplify security management, monitoring, reporting and analytics. Available as both a cloud-hosted SaaS and an on-premises solution, NSM provides businesses and managed security service providers (MSSPs) with the tools to manage networks quickly and efficiently. With NSM 3.0, it’s now integrated with SonicPlatform, offering a unified console experience for all SonicWall devices

NSM 3.0 introduces the following features:

• Bulk firewall synchronization: Easily apply configuration changes across multiple firewalls.
• All tenant commit and deploy: Push security policies and settings across all tenants in one action.
• New migration capability: Seamlessly move configurations from older firewalls to newer models.
• Enhanced reporting: Add new attack and RA VPN reports to gain better insights into network activity and threats.
• Support for NSa 2800 and NSa 3800 firewalls: Fully compatible with SonicWall’s latest midrange firewall models.
• Support for SonicOS 7.2: Enables the latest security and performance features on Gen 7 firewalls.
• And more: Additional enhancements to streamline security operations.

Enhancing Midsize Businesses With NSa 2800/3800

SonicWall’s latest midrange firewalls, the NSa 2800 and NSa 3800, are designed for growing businesses and distributed enterprises that need advanced security and high performance.

Key highlights of the new NSa firewalls:

• Higher throughput: Delivers increased performance at a strong value.
• Scalability for hybrid and remote workforces: Provides secure connectivity for remote workers, branch offices and distributed enterprises.
• Superior management: Works seamlessly with NSM to offer unified, simplified security management.
• Free cyber warranty: Includes no-cost protection through Cysurance.
• Secure access SSE: Enhances performance and security for users accessing applications and data from anywhere via Cloud Secure Edge (CSE).

Updated Licensing Model and Addition of Managed Protection Service Suite

SonicWall has introduced a refined licensing approach to provide greater flexibility, predictability and cost efficiency.

Summary of changes:

1. Managed Protection Service Suite (MPSS): Now available for all Gen 7 models and will support future-generation models designed for NSM SaaS. MPSS provides expert firewall system health monitoring, reporting and firmware and patch management.
2. NSM SaaS tiers: Four new tiers of Advanced Reporting and Analytics licenses are now available — 7 days, 30 days, 90 days and 365 days.
3. Device management: Included with NSM licenses for all tiers.
4. NSM Essential: No longer sold separately and is now included in the Firewall EPSS bundle.
5. NSM Essential Protection: Now includes additional security features to strengthen your overall security profile.

The Managed Protection Service Suite provides monitoring and management for Gen 7 and Gen 8 firewalls. The SonicSentry team ensures each firewall is properly configured and kept current to avoid missed updates and vulnerabilities. NSM 3.0 also includes a Health Check Report for firewalls with an MPSS subscription. This report provides insight into firewall health, firmware versions and configuration status. With MPSS, firewall management becomes effortless — allowing for truly superior managed services.

Benefits of the New Licensing Model

• Predictable pricing: Businesses can budget effectively with transparent, upfront costs.
• Flexible choices: Choose the licensing tier and reporting/analytics retention period that fits your needs.
• Simplified subscription management with MPSS: Ideal for multi-tenant environments, making it easier for MSSPs to manage customer networks efficiently.

Lowering Total Cost of Ownership and Maximizing ROI

SonicWall provides long-term value by reducing operational costs, improving security and optimizing resource allocation. Here’s how:

1. Reduced operational expenses: NSM automates time-consuming tasks like policy deployment, configuration updates, firewall replacements and synchronization. This reduces manual effort and frees up IT teams to focus on strategic initiatives — improving productivity and lowering labor costs.
2. Faster troubleshooting and reduced downtime: NSM 3.0’s advanced reporting and analytics help teams identify and resolve issues faster, reducing downtime that can disrupt business operations. More visibility means quicker diagnosis, faster fixes and better business continuity.
3. Scalability and innovation: With access to the latest SonicWall hardware, firmware and software, businesses stay current with evolving standards and threats. NSM 3.0 and the NSa 2800/3800 firewalls provide the tools to scale securely and efficiently — while protecting your bottom line.

Strong Security, Simplified Management

Strong security is only as effective as your ability to manage it. SonicWall firewalls deliver high-performance protection — and when paired with NSM, give you a centralized, easy-to-use platform for managing policies, monitoring activity and scaling securely.

If you're looking for a way to tighten your security and simplify day-to-day operations, explore what NSM 3.0 and the NSa firewalls can do for your business.