Contact Center Solutions Industry News

TMCNet: SonicWALL Provides Industrys Most Secure, Highest Performing Firewall for SMBs, Retail, Branch Offices

[March 15, 2012]

SonicWALL Provides Industrys Most Secure, Highest Performing Firewall for SMBs, Retail, Branch Offices

Mar 15, 2012 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- As network usage and the number of devices accessing the Internet continue to increase both at home and in the office, network performance is often adversely affected by legacy firewall solutions that struggle to keep up with new threats while still allowing productive workflow. When faced with a choice between enforcing security and paralysing the network, many SMBs will risk scaling back on security to facilitate productivity. In answer to this challenge, SonicWALL, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today introduced the new SonicWALL® TZ 215 - the most secure, highest performing Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewall available on the market today for small, retail and branch offices. The TZ 215 delivers the most effective anti-malware, intrusion prevention, URL filtering and application control capabilities along with the broadest mobile platform support for laptops, smartphones and tablets.

With today's evolving threat landscape, SMBs need a firewall that does not force a trade-off between advanced security and network performance. The new TZ 215 is a dual-core high performance application-aware firewall with comprehensive protection against viruses, Trojans, key-loggers and application layer attacks. The TZ 215 also integrates rich networking functionality, including IPSec and IPSec and SSL VPN remote access, a 7-port gigabit switch, dual-band 802.11n wireless with guest access and centralised management for simplified network administration. Additionally, it is the only UTM firewall on the market that provides SSL VPN client remote access for Apple® iOS and Mac OS®, Google® Android(TM), Microsoft® Windows®, and Linux. For businesses concerned with failover and high availability, the TZ 215 supports multiple-ISP failover, failover to 3G connections via USB and hardware failover between two firewalls.

The TZ 215 is ideal for a distributed office environment, capable of replacing small appliances that can no longer handle the networking needs and traffic requirements of growing branch locations. Branch office firewalls are often taxed beyond their capabilities as businesses push security services and application control features to the periphery.

"The unfortunate reality is that many SMBs still opt for performance over comprehensive security," said Dmitriy Ayrapetov, product line manager network security at SonicWALL. "As the number of reported network breaches continues to increase, we believe that businesses should no longer be forced to choose between network performance and actually protecting themselves. With the introduction of the TZ 215, they can have the necessary full deep packet inspection security, such as intrusion prevention and anti-malware, while enjoying the full capacity of the high-speed connections available on the market today." Just like enterprises, small businesses need protection against sophisticated malware and intrusion attempts that pass through traditional stateful firewalls, targeting PCs and mobile devices when users browse the Internet, send or receive email or download files. In addition, as business-critical applications move to the cloud, small organizations need to ensure that bandwidth is available so that employees can quickly and easily access vital data. SonicWALL's patented Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® engine, powered by a multi-core architecture, efficiently protects traffic at all network layers to prevent threats from coming into the network. SonicWALL's Application Intelligence and Control ensures that bandwidth for business-critical applications is always available, while throttling productivity-draining applications. The TZ 215 offers drill-down visualisation, making it the only firewall in its class to offer advanced application traffic analytics for deep insight into bandwidth utiliaation and security threats. These capabilities use both real-time and historical data, enabling fast troubleshooting and forensics.

For more news on Dynamic Security and Next-Generation Networks, follow SonicWALL on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

About SonicWALL, Inc.

Guided by its vision of Dynamic Security for the Global Network, SonicWALL develops advanced intelligent network security and data protection solutions that adapt as organisations evolve and as threats evolve. Trusted by small and large enterprises worldwide, SonicWALL solutions are designed to detect and control applications and protect networks from intrusions and malware attacks through award-winning hardware, software and virtual appliance-based solutions. For more information, visit http://www.sonicwall.com/.

Copyright (C) 2012 SonicWALL, Inc. All rights reserved. SonicWALL® is a registered trademark of SonicWALL, Inc. and all other SonicWALL product and service names and slogans are trademarks or registered trademarks of SonicWALL, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Media contact Alesha Keene, BondPR alesha@bondpr.com 07920 828 698 ((M2 Communications disclaims all liability for information provided within M2 PressWIRE. Data supplied by named party/parties. Further information on M2 PressWIRE can be obtained at http://www.presswire.net on the world wide web. Inquiries to info@m2.com.

[ Back To Contact Center Solutions Homepage's Homepage ]


Related Contact Center Solutions Articles
[ View all Contact Center Solutions Articles ]

FOLLOW US

Contact Center Solutions Glossary of Terms

Featured Whitepaper

    Microsoft® Lync® in the Contact Center: Integrating with Customer Interaction Center™ to Provide a Barrier‐free Customer Experience To implement contact center functionality, organizations using Microsoft Lync Server 2010 can follow the unified communications blueprint of open standards interoperability and integrate to a contact center solution of their choice. Customer Interaction Center (CIC) from Interactive Intelligence is a proven best of breed contact center solution that merits consideration ...

Featured Success Story

    Contact Center Solutions Featured Success Story
    Interactive Intelligence all-in-one IP communications software suite integrated with Microsoft Lync helps Bentley save $200,000 annually.

Featured Product Demo

    Contact Center Solutions Interaction Analyzer™
    Interaction Analyzer™
    Real-time word and phrase spotting. Alerting. Analytics. Scoring. Coaching. Watch how Interaction Analyzer turns every moment, of every past and present call, into data that lets you deliver an exceptional customer experience.

Featured Resources

Ask the Expert

Press Releases