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Network Security Solutions

Missing Link: A Security Strategy for Web 2.0 and Social Networking

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.

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ESG: 3D Network Security

ESG believes that the time is right for a new model it calls 3-D network security that combine broad security functionality and networking integration with massive scale and performance. While this type of “God box” was impossible in the past, it is now achievable to build a 3-D network security system because of recent improvements in microprocessors, IT economics, and development skills.

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The Advantages of a Multi-core Architecture in Network Security Appliances

SonicWALL Network Security Appliance (NSA) technology greatly exceeds the security and performance of traditional network security solutions by conducting comprehensive Unified Threat Management (UTM) and real-time Deep Packet Inspection over a breakthrough multi-core processor architecture.

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Nemertes: The Center Is Everywhere

Changing work habits and data center technologies have destroyed the enterprise perimeter as traditionally conceived. End-node-centered security, both desktop- and server-centric, is one key part of defending the new enterprise. Network security addressing defense at every network port is another. Identity not related to network location can unify all security tools, providing the underpinning of policy-driven access control everywhere. The new center of enterprise IT security efforts everywhere – every device, connection, application, and user is the now at the center.

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Missing Link: Management Considerations for Enterprise-Class UTM

Having enterprise-class management capabilities is not only a crucial prerequisite to deploying UTM technology in high volume/complex/ critical scenarios, but also the key to unlocking truly meaningful reductions in cost of ownership.

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Missing Link: Performance Features Pave the Way for Enterprise-Class UTM

The need for speed is on the rise. Consequently, the only UTM products suitable for enterprise-class deployments will be those characterized by performance-oriented designs and associated performance-centric feature sets.

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Missing Link: Critical Criteria for Enterprise-Class UTM

UTM technology de# nitely deserves consideration for enterprise-class implementation scenarios, but only if associated solutions fully address key criteria and the deploying organization is operationally prepared for functional consolidation.

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Missing Link: Security Considerations for Enterprise-Class UTM

Although robust, coordinated security capabilities are a “must-have” for enterprise-class UTM, a highly effective solution ultimately depends on achieving balance in several related areas.

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ComputerWorld: Threat Management in the New Enterprise

Peace of mind is in short supply amid IT managers & network administrators. Along with ever-present internal threats, highly paid cyber criminals are always trying to destroy security walls. The best defense is a comprehensive risk management strategy.

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Unified Threat Management: The Best Defense Against Blended Threats

The SonicWALL® Unified Threat Management solution (UTM) provides the most intelligent, real-time network protection against sophisticated application-layer and content-based attacks and is capable of monitoring a wide variety of network communications.

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Regulatory Compliance in Provisioning for Secure Networks

Regulations simply standardize sensible practices for securely storing, retrieving and transporting electronic information.

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MPLS and IPSec VPNs Optimizing Security on the Business WAN

The need for end-to-end, secure connectivity has been driven by rapid business growth. Learn about several MPLS and IPSec VPN technologies.

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Best Practices in Deploying a Secure Wireless Network

This document will help business owners and network administrators understand the required elements for a secure wireless network, allowing them to avoid the expense and risks associated with an inadequate deployment. It also provides background information and guidelines for assessing the various types of wireless solutions available today and an overview of centralized management for both wired and wireless networks.

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Assessing Business Continuity Solutions

Ensuring the uninterrupted operation of businesses is an issue of increasing importance not just for large enterprises but for medium and small organizations as well. More than ever before, highly available security solutions are a key business asset that not only protects data, but also helps a company grow by increasing employee productivity and mobility.

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Beyond Interoperability: Network Security as a Voice over IP (VoIP) Enabler

This whitepaper examines the issues and complexities of deploying a secure VoIP network, then details SonicWALL’s total VoIP solution.

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Virtual Private Networks for Small to Medium Organizations

This document outlines how small to medium-sized organizations can use a VPN and broad-band Internet access to securely connect geographically dispersed offices and users.  Learn how a VPN works, how to evaluate VPN technology options, and how to  optimally deploy a VPN solution for your organization.  Discover how SonicWALL’s Internet security appliances and VPN solutions make your decision and implementation easier.

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SSL VPN Secure Remote Access Solutions

SonicWALL Virtual Assist: Clientless Remote Support Over SSL VPN

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.

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FactPoint: Working Green - Bottom-line Benefits of Telecommuting & Secure Remote Access

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.

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Simple Steps to Securing Your SSL VPN

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.

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Increase Productivity and Reduce Security Risks for Teleworkers

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.

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IPSec vs. SSL VPN: Transition Criteria and Methodology

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.

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Quick Guide: SSL VPN Technical Primer

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

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Missing Link: Achieving NAC Now and in the Future: The Role of SSL VPNs

In contrast, by virtue of their in-depth access control capabilities, SSL VPNs – the actual progenitors of the NAC concept and technology – provide an efficient and effective dose of NAC where it is needed most and with far fewer complications.  Essentially, they offer organizations the opportunity to ease their way into broader and more complex NAC initiatives.  Furthermore, it is expected that today’s SSL VPN technology will remain a valid component of future enterprise-wide NAC implementations – if not also play an instrumental role in NAC’s eventual maturation.

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Best Practices for Secure Remote Access - A Guide to the Future

The future trend is towards a universal access control model, one which inverts the network so that the protective perimeter is concentrated around application resources.

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FactPoint: The Remote Access Imperative in Disaster Recovery

One technology has emerged as the leading solution for remote access: SSL VPNs— virtual private networks utilizing secure sockets layer (SSL) security protocols. SSL VPNs are best suited for secure remote access during an emergency because they allow workers and partners to connect safely through the Internet to corporate network resources. This document explores best practices for disaster recovery and the role of SSL VPNs in that process.

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Rysavy: Secure Mobile Access Using SSL VPNs

Businesses today face the challenge of effectively securing mobile access and providing access only to those resources appropriate for particular users and devices. SonicWALL offers an SSL VPN with features specifically designed for mobile devices that address common challenges faced by organizations. With the SonicWALL Aventail SSL VPN, one security architecture protects all forms of remote access, including access from handheld devices and notebook computers.

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Rysavy: Secure Wireless Networking Using SSL VPNs

Companies are embracing wireless technologies to increase productivity, provide more flexible work arrangements for their employees, and work more closely with their business partners. Wireless technologies include both local area and wide area systems. However, the multiplicity of networking options as well as computing platforms creates significant security issues.

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Stratecast: An SSL VPN Selection Framework - One Size Does Not Fit All

The maturing of SSL VPN as a remote access gateway and the escalating adoption of SSL VPN by businesses big and small in our view are testaments that this risk management and business supporting solution should be on the “must list” for evaluation by all businesses with remote access needs. The challenge, like the uniqueness in risk profiles and tolerances, is that there is no one-size-fits-all SSL VPN gateway. Therefore, aligning the SSL VPN gateway with the best mix of capabilities for the business firm is prudent but challenging. In this bulletin, we will tackle this challenge head-on by introducing an SSL VPN selection framework.

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Keeping Your Data Safe and Your Networks Connected

New Generation of Managed Appliances Provide Disaster Recovery and Improve Business Continuity - With a new product that links networks securely over a cellular data network, "business continuity" goes native and unwired. Better yet, these systems work more easily and are more manageable than ever.

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Key Steps to a Secure Remote Workforce

Telecommuting benefits the employee and the company, the community and the environment. With the right security measures in place, there’s no need to delay in creating a remote worker policy that’s right for your organization.

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SSL VPNs: Now Functionally and Affordably Right Sized for SMBs

Information is the lifeblood of most businesses. However, without a reliable, convenient, and secure means to exchange information with users, business suffers. In the past, electronic information exchange was not an issue for many businesses. Their needs were self-contained; limited to connecting on-site employees from their corporate-owned desktops to a limited number of applications.

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Anti-Spam/Email & Web Security Solutions

The SonicWALL GRID Network: Collaborative Cross-vector Protection for Email Security

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.

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Ferris Research: Spam and Malware Update - Industry Developments, Customer Pain Points

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.

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IDC: A Guide to Delivering Dynamic Protection in an Evolving Threat Environment

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.

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A Guide to Evaluating E-mail Security Solutions

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.

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Conquering E-mail and Data Security Risks

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

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A Guide to Keeping E-mail Legal: Four Pillars of Compliance

E-mail must be protected not only from incoming threats, but it must also
be monitored, screened and in some cases, retained for compliance with a host of laws
and regulations.   E-mail policies must be created, administered and monitored and
violators must be discovered and sanctioned.

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Secure Content Management: Protected, Productive Networks for Today's Schools and Libraries

The need for secure content, current technology directions, solution alternative and application examples.

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Secure Content Management: Protected, Productive Networks for Today's Businesses

The need for secure content, current technology directions, solution alternatives and application examples.

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Employee Use of Technology in the Workplace: Corporate Liability for Sexual Harassment Claims

Use of technology in the workplace has grown exponentially over the past few years.  We are at a time when literally every employee has access to the Internet and the corporate e-mail system. That access affords employees use of a communications medium that may result in substantial liability for their employers.

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Comparing Architectures for Internet Content Filtering Solutions

Innovative website caching and rating  architecture delivers an affordable, enterprise-class  filtering solution for businesses, schools, and libraries.

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Backup & Recovery Solutions

Keeping Your Data Safe and Your Networks Connected

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.

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ESG Report - Data Protection Strategies for SMBs

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.

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The Case for Continuous Data Protection

This paper will discuss the benefits of using CDP-based solutions, particularly in place of traditional, tape-based backup products that currently dominate the SMB market.

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Management & Reporting Solutions

Meeting PCI Compliance with SonicWALL Global Management System

Ensuring Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance requires expert understanding of data storage and encryption requirements, device integration considerations, and logging and reporting parameters for distributed networks. The award-winning SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) helps organizations meet the stringent PCI requirements by offering centralized management of security rules and policies across a distributed environment, real-time monitoring and logging services, and historical compliance reporting for deployments of all sizes.

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Solutions for Financial Services

Securing Financial Services Beyond the Perimeter

SonicWALL® Network Security Appliance (NSA), SSL VPN and Global Management System (GMS) solutions integrate seamlessly to provide a layered solution for securing financial services beyond the perimeter. The entire line of SonicWALL solutions are engineered to reduce the cost and complexity of network security, while delivering comprehensive security and high performance.

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Solutions for Government

Improving the Business of Government with Secure Networks

In order to achieve its goals, the information networks government uses to connect various constituencies must be secure from intrusion and disruption. This should not be an additional category of hardware, software and services. Rather, it should be an essential quality of the system components selected.

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Solutions for Healthcare

Extending the Reach of Clinicians with Secure Networks

By addressing the issues around network security, the way is cleared for improving productivity in healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare Network Security Solutions: HIPAA and Beyond

This document provides an overview of HIPAA regulations with a particular emphasis on the final Security Rule. It presents SonicWALL’s broad range of cost-effective Internet security solutions, outlining how they help healthcare organizations meet HIPAA requirements.

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Solutions for Retail

Meeting PCI Compliance with SonicWALL Global Management System

Ensuring Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance requires expert understanding of data storage and encryption requirements, device integration considerations, and logging and reporting parameters for distributed networks. The award-winning SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) helps organizations meet the stringent PCI requirements by offering centralized management of security rules and policies across a distributed environment, real-time monitoring and logging services, and historical compliance reporting for deployments of all sizes.

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Reap the Benefits of PCI Compliance: Why Payment Card Security Should Be a Retailer's Top Priority

An essential element of PCI compliance is to secure networks to protect confidential information and defend against the devastating effects of security breaches, viruses and worms.

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Secure Networks Form the Backbone of Profitable Retail Initiatives

Leveraging technology to improve internal operations, dealings with suppliers and customer service.

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Assessing Business Continuity Solutions

Ensuring the uninterrupted operation of businesses is an issue of increasing importance not just for large enterprises but for medium and small organizations as well. More than ever before, highly available security solutions are a key business asset that not only protects data, but also helps a company grow by increasing employee productivity and mobility.

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Enabling Enhanced Retail Applications with Secure IP and Wireless Communications

Constant VPN connectivity, enhanced wireless security, and central management enable new POS productivity applications.

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