. Sonic WALL NSA Series appliances provide enterprise networks with continuous real-time threat protection ensuring the strongest defense posture with minimal IT intervention. Sonic WALL's dynamic security services continuously communicate with worldwide network of back-end centers immediately updating signatures to protect against malicious code vulnerabilities & unproductive Web sites. NSA appliances integrate market-leading customizable Application Firewall for regulating application access data leakage prevention & user access control giving enterprise administrators complete control over every communication to every destination across the network. Every day malware spyware & real-time applications become more sophisticated & now have the ability to circle the entire globe in a matter of minutes. Many threats are blended originating from multiple sources over many different protocols operating at multiple layers over multiple protocols delivered via IM P2P file sharing games or harmless-looking utility programs & bypassing traditional client-based solutions. Today's complex threats require a solution beyond standard anti-virus technology. Sonic WALL Gateway Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware features a deep packet inspection (DPI) engine that inspects all e-mail Web file transfer & other stream-based protocols as well as real-time applications such as IM & P2P for total application & threat control. Unlike other solutions Sonic WALL DPI analyzes all files in real time
- regardless of file size or compression
- & generates proactive alerts that notify administrators whenever a threat is detected. Sonic WALL prevents day-zero attacks with dynamically-updated databases & an extensive list of virus & malware signatures. Sonic WALL blocks spyware at the gateway with anti-spyware technology that prevents users from downloading spyware in the first place. In addition it prevents auto-installation of Active X components (one of the most common sources of spyware) & stops any existing spyware programs from communicating with their hosts. Many of the most dangerous threats function at the application layer exploiting vulnerabilities in common network applications to drain productivity & steal data. Application layer threats defy old guard technology
- but Sonic WALL goes a step beyond by scanning for worms Trojans software vulnerabilities backdoor exploits & other types of malicious attacks. Working in conjunction with Sonic WALL anti-virus & anti-spyware technology the Sonic WALL Intrusion Prevention Service (IPS) engine protects against an array of network-based application vulnerabilities & exploits. Deployed to protect against both internal & external threats Sonic WALL IPS monitors the network for malicious or anomalous traffic then blocks or logs traffic based on predefined & automatically updated conditions. By focusing on known malicious traffic Sonic WALL IPS decreases false positives while increasing network reliability & performance. Sonic WALL Application Firewall is a set of granular application specific policies that allow custom access controls based upon user application schedule or IP subnet level. Its comprehensive policy capabilities include restricting transfer of specific files & documents blocking e-mail attachments using a user-configurable criteria customized application control bandwidth limiting for matched policies & denying internal & external Web access based on various user-configurable options. Using Application Firewall Sonic WALL NSA solutions provide application level access control data leakage control functionality & the ability to create pure custom signatures
- adding up to a future-proofed solution for enterprise network administrators..