SonicWALL White Papers

New e-mail protections are now available to ensure the safety, privacy and security of corporate networks, data and personnel. The increased sophistication, versatility and effectiveness of e-mail security solutions have been paired with improved ease-of- use, providing a transparent, simply managed barrier against spam, phishing and other inbound e-mail-based attacks as well as outbound compliance.

Strategies to reduce risk and seal off unsuspected new holes in the communications perimeter.

Bottom line: It’s not the size of the organization that determines the value of the data that is generated. Mission-critical data is mission-critical data regardless of who produces it, and deserves appropriate protection. That said, SMBs face a number of different challenges that larger organizations don’t (and vice versa), which necessitate some key differences in data protection strategies.

This Vendor Spotlight examines the evolution of  information protection and control (IPC) solutions in their quest to discover, protect, and control information contained in data in motion, data at rest, and data in use to help organizations of all sizes and vertical industries. This Vendor Spotlight also contains a helpful checklist for selecting a security vendor and examines the role of SonicWALL in this strategically important market.

New Generation of Managed Appliances Provide Disaster Recovery and Improve Business Continuity - Now, modern SSL VPN appliances support clients without the need for special software, and they charge by the appliance, not the user. This allows companies to use remote access for regular connections like remote offices and traveling laptops, just like always. But it also allows a company to keep running if no one can get to the office, such as during bad weather. Since you can't plan ahead for weather so bad it makes travel difficult, flexibility and no per-use charges make an SSL VPN appliance a key part of your business continuity plan.

Several industry developments, including reputation services, sender authentication, and the Domain Assurance Council, are reviewed. Most of the current email defensive technologies today have some drawbacks. This white paper discusses the key areas where IT departments and the majority of end users experience the greatest difficulties, together with an indication of whether these problems have been getting worse over the past six months, including spam control, anti-virus, deliverability problems, and performance and scalability.

This primer explains the basics of SSL VPN technology and includes distinguishing factors between Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) and SSL VPN technologies.

In this white paper, you will learn how to assess your VPN needs, identify the limitations and optimal uses of IPSec, understand the benefits of an SSL VPN, consider key remote access configuration variables and examine the particular use cases in which you might keep IPSec.

An overview of how teleworking helps meet today’s productivity demands, what additional network security risks anywhere access can create, and how SonicWALL Aventail E-Class SSL VPN solutions addresses these concerns while offering additional benefits for today’s mobile workforce.

This expert E-book details a 5 point strategy for effectively securing remote access within your organization and features an expert article on how to successfully penetration test your company’s VPN. This ebook concludes with a quiz that helps test your knowledge of IPsec vs. SSL VPNs and details additional resources that help you determine which technology best suits your company’s needs.

Growing public concern about global warming and other environmental issues is spilling over into the business world, where companies are increasingly looking to make their operations more “green” by minimizing their environmental impact. This white paper explores telecommuting and addresses environmental benefits, advantages to employers, advantages to employees, technology requirements and issues to address.

The SonicWALL GRID Network collaboratively gathers, analyzes and vets cross-vector threat information from millions of business oriented sources around the world. Reputation-based threat protection information is then distributed securely, anonymously and in real time to improve the overall effectiveness of SonicWALL security solutions. Due to the distributed nature of this network and the use of multiple different data sources, the evaluation from one contributor can be vetted against multiple other contributors, allowing the GRID’s collaborative filtering process to be highly accurate and fully self-correcting.

This paper will help organizations understand the nature and impact of the phenomenon that is Web 2.0 and social networking. Applicable security challenges will be explored and a concise yet comprehensive strategy will be provided for mitigating against them.

This white paper evaluates the technical and business criteria for an effective clientless remote support implementation, and weighs the business benefits and competitive advantages of the SonicWALL® Virtual Assist solution.

A SonicWALL Clean VPN can detect the identity of users and security state of the endpoint device, protect against malware and unauthorized access based on granular policy before authorizing access, and connect authorized users easily to mission-critical network resources. Only SonicWALL is capable of delivering a truly viable Clean VPN, because only SonicWALL can offer granular endpoint control, a unified policy model allowing dynamic access policies, and the revolutionary ultra-high-performance security of Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection over a multi-core processing platform.

The cost of security should be measured not only by list price, but in the sum total of operational performance, implementation, and ongoing management costs. IT is no longer shackled to proprietary vendors and arcane solutions, but can now intelligently select solutions that provide the greatest overall value, while retaining the utmost security and performance. As a relentless innovator in the secure infrastructure market, SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses by engineering the cost out of building and running secure networks.

This white paper provides enterprise organizations with an independent, objective guide for building security strategies and evaluating solutions. Security Incite believes UTM solutions are poised to be a big part of the answer to the growing security problem and deserve close consideration.

By addressing the IT need for advanced security as well as the end-user need for convenient, flexible access, SonicWALL secure remote access solutions offer today’s best choice for remote worker productivity. Every day, teleworkers around the globe depend on SonicWALL solutions, enabling them to securely and cost-effectively access protected network resources from the broadest range of remote locations and devices of any SSL VPN vendor today.

These 10 trends and technologies put telecommuting on the cusp of a period of rapid growth. Two general categories are stronger today than they have been anytime in the last five years: Financial drivers and enabling technologies. The technology enablers of telecommuting work include reliable secure remote access, wider access to broadband Internet, new collaborative applications, and the popularity of PDAs and smartphones. Add heightened public awareness of global warming and the original push from employees seeking better balance between their work and family lives. This time, telework may actually work.

Organizations that turn a blind eye to the use of new Web-based applications infiltrating the environment are opening the door to security and productivity issues that will only increase over time. What today's organizations should focus on are ways to control the potential threats and bandwidth shortages posed by these applications while empowering users to make the best business use of them. This white paper outlines best practices for controlling applications, protecting data and managing bandwidth in a Web 2.0 world.

In the economic downturn, IT budgets are shrinking even as expectations of how technology can help the business are growing. To benefit their companies, IT managers optimize operations, cut costs, anticipate and address problems before they happen, and resolve issues quickly when things go wrong. That means streamlining operations and actively managing their computing infrastructure. In other words, back to basics.

To thrive in an increasingly competitive world, forward-thinking organizations are encouraging workforce mobility and access agility. However, these business objectives cannot be effectively met until companies discard legacy VPN paradigms and adopt secure access solutions that can adapt automatically to evolving mobile device, application, and access technologies while achieving a high degree of end-user transparency and granular policy control. This white paper explains why SonicWALL® Aventail E-Class SSL VPN appliances are replacing yesterday's IPsec VPNs by enabling secure, yet agile, everywhere access to any business application, at any time, using any device, over any network.

This white paper examines the characteristics of a next-generation solution that helps alleviate the prevailing issues and challenges associated with today’s WLAN implementations.  The emergence of products that conform to related criteria holds the key to enabling enterprises to utilize WLANs more widely and to having them more fully realize the important benefits that wireless technology has to offer.

The performance and security needs of corporate networks have evolved greatly in the last #ve years, driven by changing business and economic demands, di#erent patterns of working and a continuous stream of new technologies. In this environment of ‘Business 2.0’, the network is the organization’s vital beating heart, a strategic business tool used by companies to drive signi#cant competitive advantage. But this central role also brings management, risk and security challenges.