[ news_security_news ]
SonicWALL's New OS
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2004-11-30
 Insider Reports RSS Feed
SonicWALL announced the availability of its SonicOS 3.0 operating system, which delivers advanced features across all SonicWALL TZ 170 and PRO Series appliances.
It enables businesses of all sizes to take advantage of affordable, enterprise-class network security.
SonicOS 3.0 combines unified threat management features such as Gateway Anti-virus and intrusion detection and prevention with stateful inspection firewall and other enterprise-class features such as VLAN support, dynamic routing, Active Directory user authentication, and secure remote management capabilities.
"SonicOS 3.0 is absolutely what we were looking for," commented Philip White, Senior Information Architect and designer of software applications at the University of Houston's Center for Academic Support and Assessment (CASA) Testing Center. "The extended functionality allows me to implement the original deployment plan for our department, and more. During the holiday break we intend to reconfigure our network completely in order to use these capabilities to the fullest extent."
The University's CASA center operates a data-driven Web site providing online testing, tutoring and homework facilities, using a single SonicWALL PRO 5060 appliance to secure the network. "SonicOS 3.0 provides everything the center needs to be able to participate in various VLANs and provide students with different levels of access to the Web, yet remain protected from vulnerabilities or hacking," said White. "Features like VLAN and dynamic routing on our PRO 5060 firewall allow us to deploy varied security policies and move away from some of our existing network solutions onto the firewall. We have fast throughput and a good level of control of an array of Web servers and Web services devices. There is nothing like SonicOS 3.0 on the market at the moment, at least not at this price point."
SonicOS 3.0's 802.1q VLAN capabilities enable network administrators to deploy firewall, anti-virus and intrusion prevention at any point of the network including distribution, aggregation, core and gateway layers. With SonicOS 3.0, network security is no longer limited to physical ports on the firewall but is extended to the port density of managed switches. User and group policies can be deployed to secure mobile users as they access network resources from a variety of devices, while consolidated user management for local and remote access and policy enforcement increases security while decreasing administration costs.
As one of its defining features, SonicOS 3.0 enables SonicWALL's intelligent, real-time Gateway Anti-Virus service, which is capable of concurrent scanning of large numbers of files as well as files of unlimited size. Gateway Anti-Virus provides support for multiple protocol types, scanning not only email traffic but all network transfers, delivering real- time virus protection for file, mail, Web and FTP servers. Combined with SonicWALL's Intrusion Prevention Service (IPS) 2.0, Gateway Anti-Virus provides powerful unified threat management to businesses of all sizes.
"The introduction of SonicOS 3.0 brings powerful new capabilities to our entire installed base of TZ 170 and PRO series users, without forcing a hardware upgrade," said Matthew Medeiros, president and chief executive officer at SonicWALL. "Two years ago, firewalls were able to prevent about 30 basic network attacks. Today, SonicOS 3.0 and our unified threat management offering allow SonicWALL to prevent some 30,000 dynamic threats covering both file and network-based propagation of blended attacks. This is an industry- leading capability that is affordable and easy to deploy and represents another compelling reason to deploy SonicWALL appliances."
SonicOS 3.0 and Gateway Anti-Virus will be available across SonicWALL's entire TZ 170 series and PRO series product lines, supported by a subscription service for signature updates. SonicOS 3.0 Standard is available today, and SonicOS 3.0 Enhanced will be available in December, 2004.
About the Author:
SecurityProNews is a daily online and email publication focusing on internet security issues.
More news_security_news Articles
Insider Reports RSS Feed
|
|
iEntry 10th Anniversary
RSS
Archive
