LOOPHOLD Security Distribution, local distributor of SonicWALL, a provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, has announced the availability of WAN Acceleration in SonicOS 5.8.1, further enhancing the capabilities of the current SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewall
(NGFW) Series, and introducing integrated support for the SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) Series.
Says Martin Tassev, MD at LOOPHOLD Security Distribution: "The announcement underscores SonicWALL's commitment to continued investment in its NGFW series, and providing its customers with a highly secure, accelerated and optimised network that drives business and employee efficiency.”
Continuous improvement
The delivery of SonicOS 5.8.1 bolsters SonicWALL's consolidated security platform and tightly integrates features like application intelligence, control and visualisation and deep packet inspection scanning with the WXA Series to provide WAN optimisation and acceleration for the distributed enterprise.
The WAN acceleration is seamlessly built into the existing SonicOS user interface, self-discovers and allows system administrators to easily leverage the new and advanced features.
With companies looking to increase their business and employee productivity, the combined power of SonicOS 5.8.1 and the WXA Series can help in two ways. Firstly, the leverage application intelligence and control features help to optimise the applications on the network for the business needs. In addition, businesses can now transmit business-critical data faster and effectively, which increases their bandwidth - this saving time and money, therefore, the turnover will help increase the profitability.
Additional new features offered by SonicOS 5.8.1 enhance application intelligence and security features in SonicWALL firewalls. The new capability to use IP reputation data to block communication with suspected botnet command and control centres allows administrators to reduce the risk of having potentially compromised hosts on their network participate in spam or DDOS attacks. Administrators can further reduce the risk of data theft or attacks by controlling traffic access by geography or blocking of traffic from unknown locations.
Key benefits include:
* Ability to detect and block communications to botnet command and control communication centres identified by the SonicWALL GRID network.
* Ability to view and control traffic by geography, thus providing an additional layer of security by reducing the risk of attacks or data theft.
* Ease of use enhancements for application flow visualisation that provide easier methods to quickly create policies based on real-time application traffic insight to simplify network management.
* Increased deployment flexibility with Wire Mode and new opportunities for Deep Packet Inspection that provides greater security and application control.
The introduction of SonicOS 5.8.1 further enhances SonicWALL's NGFW offering and improves bandwidth capability, while protecting against intrusions and malware attacks.
The SonicWALL network efficiencies solution is a tightly integrated security and WAN acceleration solution. It integrates SonicWALL Application Intelligence and Control and SonicWALL Deep Packet Inspection with the WXA Series and enables businesses to better manage their bandwidth to accelerate business-critical applications.
Corporations can consolidate features for application intelligence and control, DPI scanning, WAN Acceleration and VPN into a single interface.
This can help companies save on IT management costs, reduce the amount of data being sent between corporate and remote offices and drive profitability.
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