In today's economy, businesses and their IT organizations need to do more with less. Leading enterprises are already reaping benefits through IT consolidation, by centralizing data centers and embracing virtualization initiatives. Now, both large enterprises and SMBs have the opportunity to optimize productivity and minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) by consolidating multiple security technologies in a single SonicWALL UTM solution.

Moreover, SonicWALL UTM firewalls maximize security against Web 2.0-based threats from social media sites and microblogs, threats from laptops and wireless mobile devices connecting from outside the corporate network, threats from malware-laden email, and threats to productivity and network performance from streaming music or video sites.

Point Solutions: More IT Time and Effort The volume, diversity, and sophistication of network threats continue to grow, and network entry points now include mobile devices and automated Web 2.0 interfaces. Unless IT can provide comprehensive and up-to-date protection, the organization is exposed to malware infections, stifled productivity and regulatory non-compliance issues. Traditional standalone point products may not work seamlessly together to provide comprehensive protection. In addition, point products demand substantial manual integration and countless administrative hours to provide the semblance of coordinated defense. Each added point product can drive up IT costs with separate expenses for staff resource time spent in training, deployment, maintenance and administration. IT simply can't keep up.

Consolidated Security: Efficient and Seamless Protection Multi-layered UTM solutions enable organizations to deploy broader and better-coordinated security countermeasures easily and efficiently. However, many UTM options offer only a baseline of core traditional security tools (e.g., stateful packet inspection firewall, IPSec VPN, intrusion detection/prevention and anti-virus capabilities), although some solutions may also incorporate anti-spyware and content filtering.

To get the advanced security tools you'll need today and tomorrow, including SSL VPN, secure wireless, comprehensive anti-spam and application filtering, you would still need to add, deploy and manage separate appliances, all of which runs counter to the philosophy of seamless protection and efficient management benefits of consolidation.

Now SonicWALL overcomes the limitations of these other UTM offerings and the challenges of multiple point solutions by consolidating all critical advanced features onto a single high-speed, Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection™ platform, providing sophisticated protection for both the enterprise and SMB.

SonicWALL Best-in-Class Consolidated Security for the Enterprise

Enterprises can maximize security effectiveness and IT efficiency by consolidating multiple enterprise-class countermeasures into one comprehensive SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) or NSA Series UTM solution at the corporate gateway. These deployments can also be enhanced with the SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) to simplify management of the entire SonicWALL infrastructure across distributed locations from one central console, reduce administrative overhead, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

SonicWALL Best-in-Class Consolidated Security for the SMB

SMBs can benefit by consolidating security using the all-new SonicWALL TZ Series or the NSA Series appliances, which provide comprehensive advanced security countermeasures on a single, powerful UTM appliance. These deployments can also be seamlessly integrated with SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection (CDP)  for complete SMB protection combining consolidated network security with easily deployed and managed data backup and recovery.

Highest Performing Multi-function Appliances

Both the NSA and E-Class Series apply next-generation Unified Threat Management (UTM) against a comprehensive array of attacks, combining intrusion prevention, anti-virus and antispyware with the application-level control of SonicWALL Application Firewall. With advanced routing, stateful high-availability, NSAs and E-Class NSAs add security, reliability, functionality and productivity, while also minimizing cost and complexity by consolidating multiple advanced countermeasures into an easily managed solution. Easily integrated into existing environments, NSAs and E-Class NSAs centralize gateway-level protection across all incoming and outgoing applications, files and content-based traffic, while controlling bandwidth and applications.
The NSA and E-Class NSA Series overcome the limitations of traditional stateful packet inspection products (which only scan headers and miss threats hidden in data) by scanning the entirety of each packet for current internal and external threats in real time. Built on a high-speed multi-core processing platform, NSAs and E-Class NSAs enable deep packet inspection without diminishing the performance of mission-critical networks and applications.

Comprehensive Protection

The NSA and E-Class NSA Series deliver a highly redundant security and connectivity platform that is purpose-built for high-speed internal and external network protection, consolidating and extending security functionality throughout the network.
The NSA and E-Class NSA Series integrate real-time gateway anti-virus, spyware and intrusion prevention to secure networks against an extensive array of dynamic threats including worms, Trojans, viruses, malware and software vulnerabilities, as well as emerging Web 2.0 threats from microblogs and social media sites.
The NSA and E-Class NSA Series also continually and dynamically update threat protection, content filtering and application control services on a 24x7 basis to maximize security and decrease cost. NSAs and E-Class NSAs increase productivity by eliminating ad-hoc patch management for servers and workstations, automating the application of new protection signatures and removing the necessity for manual security policy updates.

Higher-performance Protection

is provided by Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection technology in combination with specialized security microprocessors, to deliver gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, comprehensive anti-spam, Application Firewall and content filtering—all at high speed, so you don't have to sacrifice network performance.

Application Firewall

extends protection beyond threats to the management and control of data and applications that pass through the network security appliance. learn more...SonicWALL Application Firewall enables data leakage prevention, custom signature creation, and control over Voice/video over IP (VoIP) deployments and Web 2.0 applications such as social networking sites. For instance, an administrator could prioritize bandwidth for VoIP, multimedia services, and business-critical applications, while restricting bandwidth for instant messaging and peer-to-peer file sharing. Featuring highly granular bandwidth control and integrated quality of service (QoS), Application Firewall consolidates band¬width management and application-specific security into one easily managed, affordable device.

Clean Wireless

consolidates the innovative dual protection that you need to first encrypt and protect wireless traffic on the high-speed 802.11n wireless networks and then clean the traffic and protect the wireless network using high-speed Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection, thus delivering comprehensive protection from viruses, spyware and other attacks.
The SonicWALL Clean Wireless solution goes beyond mere secure wireless solutions by enabling wireless networks to be as secure as wired networks using deep packet inspection to deliver organizations of all sizes greater security, performance, manageability and value.

Global Management System

As an optional consolidated management solution, SonicWALL Global Management System provides enterprises and service providers with a flexible, powerful and intuitive tool to centrally manage and rapidly deploy SonicWALL appliances and security policy configurations.
GMS also provides centralized real-time monitoring, and comprehensive policy and compliance reporting, all from a single console. GMS enables organizations and services providers to reduce support requirements, speed up deployment and lower costs.

Expanded, Comprehensive SMB Protection

The all new SonicWALL TZ Series revolutionizes protection for the SMB by adding new Comprehensive Anti-Spam Service and integrated SSL VPN capabilities to complement the Unified Threat Management (UTM) portfolio of Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Intrusion Prevention, Application Firewall, Enforced Client Anti-Virus, and Content Filtering.
This new comprehensive level of protection is vital for securing any network against the new more advanced Web 2.0 based threats. In just a few clicks, the SonicWALL Comprehensive Anti-Spam Service can immediately start filtering Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) email, utilizing real-time sender IP reputation analysis and cloud-based Advanced Content Management techniques to remove spam, phishing and virus laden messages from inbound SMTP-based email before they reach your network. This service eliminates the need for less-effective, slow-responding and error-prone real-time blacklist services.

Higher-Performance Platform

The all-new SonicWALL TZ Series network security offerings consolidate a broad range of advanced integrated security services into a single, high-performance platform.
Designed to maximize protection and minimize IT resource requirements, SonicWALL network security consolidates critical defenses for protection against advanced Web 2.0 threats. Going beyond standard UTM feature offerings, SonicWALL elevates complete protection by delivering an additional set of features that are revolutionizing the UTM market.

Higher-performance Protection

is provided by Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection technology in combination with specialized security microprocessors, to deliver gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, comprehensive anti-spam, Application Firewall, content filtering and SSL VPN—all at high speed, so you don't have to sacrifice network performance.

Clean VPN

consolidates the innovative dual protection of both SSL VPN and high-performance UTM.
SonicWALL Clean VPN protects the integrity of VPN access by establishing trust for remote users, using enforced authentication, data encryption and granular access policies. It also secures the integrity of VPN traffic, establishing trust by cleaning and authorizing all inbound traffic for malware and checking all outbound VPN traffic in real time.

Clean Wireless

consolidates the innovative dual protection that you need to first encrypt and protect wireless traffic on the high-speed 802.11n wireless networks and then clean the traffic and protect the wireless network.
Using high-speed Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection, SonicWALL Clean Wireless delivers comprehensive protection from viruses, spyware and other attacks. It goes beyond mere secure wireless solutions by enabling wireless networks to be as secure as wired networks using deep packet inspection to deliver organizations of all sizes greater security, performance, manageability and value.

Application Firewall

extends protection beyond threats to the management and control of data and applications that pass through the network security appliance.
SonicWALL Application Firewall enables data leakage prevention, custom signature creation, and control over Web 2.0 applications such as social networking sites.
SonicWALL Application Firewall enables data leakage prevention, custom signature creation, and control over Voice/video over IP (VoIP) deployments and Web 2.0 applications such as social networking sites. For instance, an administrator could prioritize bandwidth for VoIP, multimedia services, and business-critical applications, while restricting bandwidth for instant messaging and peer-to-peer file sharing. Featuring highly granular bandwidth control and integrated quality of service (QoS), Application Firewall consolidates band¬width management and application-specific security into one easily managed, affordable device.

Bacup & Recovery

Further enhancing the TZ Series, SonicWALL CDP offers the only complete end-to-end disk-based backup and recovery solution for SMBs.
SonicWALL CDP consolidates automatic transparent backup, user-directed restore, flexible disaster recovery options and low-touch administration for servers, desktops and mobile laptops. An ideal replacement for tape-based systems, CDP solutions provides foolproof, intuitive continual protection. Extensible across multiple platforms, CDP can instantly recover data, applications or entire workstation or server systems onto original, new or virtual devices.