Range/Series Overview

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Understanding network security can be complicated, but ensuring that your network is secure from known and unknown malicious threats shouldn't be. SonicWall Advanced Gateway Security Suite (AGSS) removes the complexity associated with choosing a host of add-on security services by integrating all the network security service required for total protection into a convenient, affordable package.

SonicWall AGSS keeps your network safe from zero-day attacks, viruses, intrusions, botnets, spyware, Trojans, worms and other malicious attacks. Examine suspicious files at the gateway in a cloud-based multi-layered sandbox for inspection to keep your network safe from unknown threats. As soon as new threats are identified and often before software vendors can patch their software, SonicWall firewalls and Cloud AV database are automatically updated with signatures that protect against these threats. Inside every SonicWall firewall is a patented Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection engine that scans traffic against multiple application types and protocols, ensuring your network has around-the-clock protection from internal and external attacks and application vulnerabilities. Your SonicWall solution also provides the tools to enforce Internet use policies and control internal access to inappropriate, unproductive and potentially illegal web content with comprehensive content filtering.

Features Summary

• ICSA-certified gateway antivirus and anti-spyware protection
  ICSA-certified gateway antivirus and anti-spyware protection combines network-based anti-malware with a dynamically updated cloud database containing tens of millions of malware signatures for advanced modern threats continuously in real time. Dynamic spyware protection blocks the installation of malicious spyware and disrupts existing spyware communications.
• IPS technology
  IPS technology protects against worms, Trojans, software vulnerabilities and other intrusions by scanning all network traffic for malicious or anomalous patterns, thereby increasing network reliability and performance. SonicWall partners with over 50 research agencies and vendors to create IPS signatures for recently discovered vulnerabilities.
• Application intelligence and control
  Application intelligence and control is a set of granular, application-specific policies providing application classification and policy enforcement to help administrators control and manage both business and non-business related applications.
• Content Filtering Service (CFS)
  Content Filtering Service (CFS) addresses safety, security and productivity concerns by providing the controls to enforce Internet use policies and block access to harmful and unproductive web content. Website ratings cached locally on SonicWall firewalls make response time to frequently visited sites virtually instantaneous. Dynamically updated rating architecture cross-references all requested websites against a database in the cloud containing millions of URLs, IP addresses and domains and then compares each rating to the local policy setting.
• Easy upgrade to AGSS
  Advanced Gateway Security Suite (AGSS) includes all the features of CGSS plus Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) cloud-based sandboxing.

Specification Summary