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SonicWall launches new familiy of appliance
February 2008 by Marc Jacob
SonicWALL, Inc. announced the SonicWALL Network Security Appliance Series (NSA) for the mid-enterprise, the next generation of Unified Threat Management (UTM) aimed at helping mid-sized businesses benefit from multi-function network security, without compromising network performance or manageability. The NSA Series multi-core platform, which first appeared in the E-Class Appliances launched in 2007, is now available for mid-size organisations to help manage their security in an increasingly complex network environment. These appliances allow IT administrators to better control, secure and authorise network access, thereby reducing security lapses and dramatically improving visibility of network activity and application use.
The rise of Web 2.0 applications, the growth of inbound and outbound network activity and the increased utilisation of network resources have lead to growing challenges in terms of securing networks and gaining greater insight into data. With new applications being used and communication growing both inside and outside of an organisation, it has never been more important for an IT department to gain full control across the corporate network. With unprecedented inspection performance, the NSA Series provides administrators much deeper intelligence over their network infrastructure and delivers a tremendous increase in network efficiency and productivity. Using massively paralleled processes to classify then inspect networked applications, the NSA Series identifies unknown connections and gives administrators back complete control of networked communications.
The NSA Series also breaks through performance barriers using a combination of SonicWALL’s patented Reassembly Free DPI (RFDPI) and purpose-built multi-core acceleration hardware, which also appears in the E-Class Appliances. This technology is now available in products specifically designed to help mid-size organisations manage their security in an increasingly complex and high speed network environment.
Deeper Protection & Data Leakage Control
Designed to simplify security solutions, the NSA Series features the next generation in UTM protection. Combining multiple protection technologies, the NSA Series includes intrusion prevention, advanced file and content anti-virus/anti-spyware inspection to provide a comprehensive solution to protect against a wide array of network attacks including, viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans and phishing attacks.
The NSA Series increases application visibility and offers data leakage capabilities for administrations through an integrated Application Firewall. This feature set delivers a suite of configurable tools to prevent content and data leaks while providing granular application control that can be set per user, e-mail user, per schedule and per IP subnet levels to create a future proofed solution for administrators.
Eliminating Threats Through Inspection
SonicWALL’s NSA appliances use the RFDPI engine to eliminate threats over unlimited file sizes without affecting processing time. In addition to DPI, this solution enables unrestricted concurrent connections offering users ultimate scalability.
The NSA Series multi-core acceleration combined with RFDPI means performance is no longer bound by overtaxed hardware or limited to predefined file inspection capabilities. Rather the NSA Series maximises application performance and scalability to achieve new levels of network efficiency.
The NSA Series also provides safety from both internal and external attacks as well as application vulnerabilities by scanning against multiple application types and protocols.
At the heart of the NSA Series is the SonicWALL multi-core performance architecture, specifically designed for high-speed internal and external network protection, VPN implementations and deployment flexibility. The new platform uses its multiple processing cores to dramatically increase throughput and inspection capabilities while keeping power consumption nearly constant and lowering total cost of ownership.
In addition to its processing power, the NSA Series also features wireless LAN (WLAN) and a range of ports making it an ideal solution for wireless and wired applications requiring high-speed access and heavy workgroup segmentation.
Additional features of the NSA series include:
– SonicWALL Clean VPN: A DPI architecture, assuring mobile user connections and branch office traffic are decontaminated to prevent vulnerabilities and malicious code from being introduced into the corporate network.
– Standards-Based VoIP: Incorporating VoIP capabilities to provide the highest levels of security for every element of VoIP infrastructure.
– Secure Distributed Wireless LAN Services: The NSA can function as a secure wireless switch and controller that automatically detects and configures SonicWALL’s wireless points, SonicPoints(tm).
– Advanced Routing Services and Networking Features: Built in routing services that provide full support for Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Router Information Protocol (RIP).
– Award Winning Global Management System (GMS): Enabling the user to manage, enforce policies and configure all appliances on the network at a central location
