SonicWall expands firewall line-up

SonicWall has expanded its threat protection offerings with the NSa 3700, a multi-gigabit security appliance designed to thwart attacks targeting government agencies, retail, K-12, higher education and enterprises. The company also introduced several product updates, including closed-network threat protection, next-generation analytics, enhanced cloud-native security management and a rebranded Wireless Network Manager.

“Governments and other large enterprises are more challenged to defend large-scale networks against rapidly evolving and increasingly sophisticated threats amid the COVID-19 crisis,” said SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner. “These new and enhanced solutions offer organizations an elastic and scalable cloud model to enable leaders to close critical security gaps using robust, enterprise-grade threat protection with next-generation technology. As the cyber arms race continues to escalate, SonicWall looks to equip organizations with proven security at a low total cost of ownership and high security efficacy.”

Enterprise-grade SonicWall appliance to protect heavily targeted sectors
Powered by SonicOS 7.0, the new SonicWall NSa 3700 firewall delivers a modern UX/UI, advanced security controls, plus critical networking and management capabilities to increase visibility and help defend against today’s increasingly targeted attacks. 

With the new NSa 3700, organizations gain much needed multi-gigabit protection and enterprise-grade threat performance with one of the lowest total costs of ownership in its class. Offering 22,500 connections per second, supporting up to 750,000 concurrent DPI connections and up to 3,000 site-to-site VPN tunnels, the NSa 3700 ensures security is scalable across the largest environments.

“More memory means more capacity, and both are essential to the safety and productivity of organizations that have experienced exponential growth in such a short time span,” said SonicWall Senior Vice President and COO Atul Dhablania. “Daily business operations should go unhindered by numerous VPN access points and employees simultaneously trying to connect. This technology boosts security throughout fast-moving organizations while inspecting more connections per appliance to reduce costs.”

SonicWall delivers advanced, closed-network threat protection
As reported in the 2021 SonicWall Cyber Threat Report, the government sector saw a 21% increase in ransomware attacks last year, making it a rising target for cybercriminals as work environments adapted to changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Government and compliance-conscious organizations can now move their threat prevention on-prem with the SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service via the award-winning SonicWall Capture Security appliance (CSa) 1000. 

Using patented Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection™ (RTDMI), CSa 1000 discovers and stops thousands of previously unseen malware samples each day. Now RTDMI™ can be deployed without the need to connect to external resources, which is important for organizations operating air-gapped networks.   

The CSa product line is currently in the process of receiving final approval for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS-140-2) certification, a standard accepted widely by governments and regulated industries around the world.

Reduce risk with advanced SonicWall threat data, next-gen analytics
To help business and security stakeholders mitigate hidden risks across networks, applications and users, SonicWall Next-Generation Analytics 3.0 transforms and delivers threat data from its global network of over 1.1 million sensors into actionable guidance via an information-rich executive dashboard.

Analytics 3.0 allows organizations to mitigate suspicious behavior upon discovery and find threats quickly with a 25% faster response time. New enhancements to Analytics enable it to take advantage of cloud elasticity to scale on-demand, delivering fast response times to changing workloads, as well as improving reliability and redundancy.

SonicWall expands cloud-native security management
To easily adhere to the latest security standards, SonicWall cloud-native security management has been updated to provide more visibility and control than ever before. With the updated SonicWall Network Security Manager (NSM) 2.2, administrators have a centralized location for configuring policies at the device or template level, making it easy to provision Layer 3-7 controls via a single rule for every firewall.

NSM helps simplify certificate management across the full firewall population and streamline rollbacks. It also allows users to choose their preferred two-factor authentication method (app or email) for receiving their authentication code.

New name, new capabilities with SonicWall Wireless Network Manager
As networks rapidly expand, so does the need for consolidation, cost savings and streamlined security management. SonicWall Wireless Network Manager (WNM) 3.5 unifies visibility and management by including SonicWall network switches and SonicWave wireless access points into a single solution. 

With SonicWall Switches now available in the WNM network hierarchy, it is easier than ever to securely monitor and manage both access points and switches from a single interface to streamline processes and reduce the potential for misconfiguration.