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Security and protection
The dedicated, in-house Dell
SonicWALL Threat Research Team
works on researching and developing
countermeasures to deploy to the
firewalls in the field for up-to-date
protection. The team leverages more
than one million sensors across the
globe for malware samples, and for
telemetry feedback on the latest threat
Information, which in turn is fed into
the intrusion prevention, anti-malware
and application detection capabilities.
Dell SonicWALL firewall customers
with current subscriptions are provided
continuously updated threat protection
around the clock, with new updates
taking eect immediately without
reboots or interruptions. The signatures
on the appliances protect against wide
classes of attacks, covering up to tens
of thousands of individual threats with
a single signature. In addition to the
countermeasures on the appliance,
all Dell SonicWALL firewalls also have
access to the Dell SonicWALL CloudAV
service, which extends the onboard
signature intelligence with more than
17 million signatures, and growing. This
CloudAV database is accessed via a
proprietary light-weight protocol by
the firewall to augment the inspection
done on the appliance. With Geo-IP
and botnet filtering capabilities, Dell
SonicWALL next-generation firewalls
are able to block trac from dangerous
domains or entire geographies in order
to reduce the risk profile of the network.
Application intelligence and control
Application intelligence informs
administrators of application trac
traversing the network, so they
can schedule application controls
based on business priority, throttle
unproductive applications, and block
potentially dangerous applications.
Real-time visualization identifies trac
anomalies as they happen, enabling
immediate countermeasures against
potential inbound or outbound
attacks or performance bottlenecks.
Dell SonicWALL application trac
analytics provide granular insight
into application trac, bandwidth
utilization and security threats, as well as
powerful troubleshooting and forensics
capabilities. Additionally, secure single
sign-on (SSO) capabilities enhance the
user experience, increase productivity
and reduce support calls. Management
of application intelligence and control
is simplified by using an intuitive web-
based interface.
Global management and reporting
For larger, distributed enterprise
deployments, the optional Dell
SonicWALL Global Management
System (GMS) provides administrators a
unified, secure and extensible platform
to manage Dell SonicWALL security
appliances. It enables enterprises to
easily consolidate the management
of security appliances, reduce
administrative and troubleshooting
complexities and governs all
operational aspects of the security
infrastructure including centralized
policy management and enforcement,
real-time event monitoring, analytics
and reporting, and more. GMS also
meets the firewall change management
requirements of enterprises through
a workflow automation feature. This
enables enterprises to gain agility and
confidence in deploying the right
firewall policies, at the right time, and
in conformance with compliance
regulations. GMS provides a better
way to manage network security by
business processes and service levels
that dramatically simplify the lifecycle
management of your overall security
environments rather than on a device-
by-device basis.
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