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CIO Magazine: Risk and Reward - Business Opportunities and the IT Security Challenge

SonicWALL and CIO magazine’s custom solutions group recently conducted a series of facilitated conversations with dozens of CIOs and senior IT executives throughout the United States. The upshot: Most IT leaders are now building their technology infrastructure for growth. Their issue: How to seize new business opportunities while mitigating risk.

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SearchSecurity.com: Fight Web-based Malware with Web Security Gateways - A New Breed of Integrated Technology [16464]

In this expert E-Guide, take a closer look at how Web security gateways work to provide comprehensive network protection against damaging and often automated threats. Discover three core functions of a Web security gateway, the advantages of using one product for Web security rather than multiple devices and how Web security gateways work to plug data leaks.

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SearchSecurity.com: Application Intelligence - Expert Guide to Web Application Security Must-Haves

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SonicWALL 2010 Security Trends

Drawing upon our detailed knowledge of security issues and our unique perspective of global security threats, SonicWALL developed this paper to provide an overview of anticipated trends in 2010. Our goal is to assist organizations of all sizes strengthen their understanding of the threat landscape and best prepare their defenses for the coming year.

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Business Insight: Enabling Server Virtualization with Enterprise Security Solutions

Appliances from SonicWALL's E-Class NSA Series pave the way for today’s enterprises to fully realize the benefits of server virtualization and resulting dynamic datacenters by providing IT departments with a highly effective and affordable solution to a handful of related security challenges.

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The FactPoint Group: Safely Unlocking the Promise of Enterprise 2.0

Despite the misgivings of security and network administrators, Web 2.0 technologies have swept into the workplace. The demonstrable business benefits of social networks, blogs, online video and collaboration tools have caused enterprises to embrace, sometimes tentatively, what is dubbed Enterprise 2.0. To unlock the promise of Enterprise 2.0 safely, IT administrators must utilize the right bandwidth and security management tools.

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AimPoint Group: Network Security for 2010 and Beyond - The Impact of The Consumerization, Webification, Virtualization, and Consolidation of IT

Several high-level, business-driven IT trends are eroding the effectiveness of conventional approaches to network security, thereby forcing the evolution of related products and technologies. This paper explores four of these trends in particular – consumerization, webification, virtualization, and consolidation – identifying for each the drivers that make it matter, the characteristics that impact network security, and the resulting implications for network security strategies and solutions.

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Is Your Network Ready for VoIP?

To achieve expected benefits from Voice or Video over Internet Protocol (VoIP), organizations must first consider the significant implications for administrative control, end-user access and overall network security. A preliminary step in this process is determining whether the existing firewall is effectively capable of supporting and securing VoIP networking. Fortunately, for some organizations, the firewall they currently have deployed may be capable of providing the functionality required to support and manage a VoIP network. This white paper explores the capabilities required for a VoIP deployment, and demonstrates how SonicWALL® VoIP Firewall solutions provide the levels of control, access and security necessary for converged networks that support voice, video and data.

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Info-Tech: Vendor Landscape - IT Security Appliances [SMB]

All businesses have data of value, regardless of their size or the industry in which they operate. Firewalls and anti-virus software have evolved into multi-function Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions; and the top vendors in the SMB security market understand that the best IT security solutions have high-quality features, offer strong support, and are easy to install and simple to operate. This research report evaluates the top five UTM solutions available in Canada.

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The Evolving Branch Office E-Guide

With nearly 90% of companies operating a virtual workplace and large percentages of employees working away from home office or the primary data center (if there is one), IT must support ever-increasing numbers of remote and virtualized workers. So, when creating or renewing the branch network infrastructure, organizations must pay close attention to shifting IT architectures, staff usage habits, and performance expectations. This E-Guide details the security and optimization best practices for various types of branch offices.

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The New Business Architecture: Making the Most of Business 2.0

This white paper will outline some of the key business trends created by the Business 2.0 model, how they affect your network, and what can be done to address them.

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The FactPoint Group: 12 Ways UTMs Are Driving Security Consolidation

Just as virtualization has boosted server consolidation in corporate data centers, so today are technology changes spurring consolidation of single-application security appliances. Instead of one appliance per application, security consolidation aggregates multiple interconnected security applications on a single piece of hardware. This super-appliance goes by the name of Unified Threat Management or UTM.

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An Intelligent Approach to Comprehensive Disaster Recovery

How to implement a comprehensive disaster recovery plan, while eliminating cost and complexity to provide an optimal return on investment.

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The SonicWALL Approach to Consolidating Network Security Infrastructure and Cutting Costs

This white paper identi#es the substantial bene#ts available to organizations that elect to replace their ever-increasing collection of network security point products with UTM devices. It further explains the combination of innovative features/functions and robust, platform-level capabilities that enable customers of SonicWALL® UTM products to maximize their gains due to consolidation.

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Ten Easy Steps to Secure Your Small Business

Small business network administrators need a workable plan to provide comprehensive security against today’s sophisticated threats without spending too much time or money. This white paper presents a simple step-by-step approach to leveraging advanced protection technology in ways that are affordable, fast and easy.

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Corporate Networks: Business 2.0 and Beyond

The performance and security needs of corporate networks have evolved greatly in the last #ve years, driven by changing business and economic demands, di#erent patterns of working and a continuous stream of new technologies. In this environment of ‘Business 2.0’, the network is the organization’s vital beating heart, a strategic business tool used by companies to drive signi#cant competitive advantage. But this central role also brings management, risk and security challenges. This brochure provides a management overview of what’s changed and why. But more importantly, it shows why #exibility, visibility, agility and a#ordability are now the key factors in network decision-making.

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AimPoint Group: Secure Wireless Made Easy – Selecting a Next-Generation Solution for Pervasive WLAN Implementations

This white paper examines the characteristics of a next-generation solution that helps alleviate the prevailing issues and challenges associated with today’s WLAN implementations.  The emergence of products that conform to related criteria holds the key to enabling enterprises to utilize WLANs more widely and to having them more fully realize the important benefits that wireless technology has to offer.

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10 Strategies to Optimize IT Spending in an Economic Downturn

In the economic downturn, IT budgets are shrinking even as expectations of how technology can help the business are growing. To benefit their companies, IT managers optimize operations, cut costs, anticipate and address problems before they happen, and resolve issues quickly when things go wrong. That means streamlining operations and actively managing their computing infrastructure. In other words, back to basics.

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Unchain Your Network with Application Intelligence and Control

This paper discusses the new risks facing organizations in light of the prevalence of Web-based applications and offers best practices for gaining control of applications, data and bandwidth. It also introduces SonicWALL® Application Intelligence and Control solutions, designed to help organizations of all sizes address the unique issues posed by Web 2.0, including employee use of unauthorized Web-based applications, streaming media, peer-to-peer applications (P2P) and protecting data sent in attachments and via email.

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Clean VPN Approach to Secure Remote Access for the SMB

The integration of SonicWALL SSL VPN/Secure Remote Access, SonicWALL Network Security Appliance, and SonicWALL Global Management System solutions offer organizations a single solution for defense-in- depth security. A SonicWALL Clean VPN can detect the identity of users, protect against malware and unauthorized access based on granular policy before authorizing access, and connect authorized users easily to mission-critical network resources. Only SonicWALL is capable of delivering a truly viable Clean VPN, because only SonicWALL can offer a unified policy model allowing dynamic access policies, and the revolutionary ultra-high-performance security of Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection over a multi-core processing platform.

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Security Incite: Unified Threat Management and Next-Generation Network Security Platforms

This white paper provides enterprise organizations with an independent, objective guide for building security strategies and evaluating solutions. Security Incite believes UTM solutions are poised to be a big part of the answer to the growing security problem and deserve close consideration.

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Reducing Total Cost of Security Ownership

The cost of security should be measured not only by list price, but in the sum total of operational performance, implementation, and ongoing management costs. IT is no longer shackled to proprietary vendors and arcane solutions, but can now intelligently select solutions that provide the greatest overall value, while retaining the utmost security and performance. As a relentless innovator in the secure infrastructure market, SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses by engineering the cost out of building and running secure networks.

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Clean VPN Approach to Secure Remote Access

A SonicWALL Clean VPN can detect the identity of users and security state of the endpoint device, protect against malware and unauthorized access based on granular policy before authorizing access, and connect authorized users easily to mission-critical network resources. Only SonicWALL is capable of delivering a truly viable Clean VPN, because only SonicWALL can offer granular endpoint control, a unified policy model allowing dynamic access policies, and the revolutionary ultra-high-performance security of Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection over a multi-core processing platform.

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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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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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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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Clean VPN Approach for a Mobile Workforce

A Clean VPN approach delivers layered defense-in-depth protection for the core elements of business communications.

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An Intelligent Approach to Comprehensive Disaster Recovery

How to implement a comprehensive disaster recovery plan, while eliminating cost and complexity to provide an optimal return on investment.

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Why Replace Your IPSec for Remote Access

To thrive in an increasingly competitive world, forward-thinking organizations are encouraging workforce mobility and access agility. However, these business objectives cannot be effectively met until companies discard legacy VPN paradigms and adopt secure access solutions that can adapt automatically to evolving mobile device, application, and access technologies while achieving a high degree of end-user transparency and granular policy control. This white paper explains why SonicWALL® Aventail E-Class SSL VPN appliances are replacing yesterday's IPsec VPNs by enabling secure, yet agile, everywhere access to any business application, at any time, using any device, over any network.

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Missing Link: Taking Secure Access to the Next Level - Achieving Granular Control that Really Works

Businesses of all types and sizes are striving to provide broad access to their applications and related information resources. But they must do so in a way that is consistent with the somewhat competing objectives of protecting the privacy of sensitive information, maintaining the integrity and availability of their networked systems, and ensuring compliance with applicable regulations. In practice this means that access to resources will be limited, effectively, to the extent that it can be granularly controlled.

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Clean VPN Approach to Secure Remote Access for the SMB

The integration of SonicWALL SSL VPN/Secure Remote Access, SonicWALL Network Security Appliance, and SonicWALL Global Management System solutions offer organizations a single solution for defense-in- depth security. A SonicWALL Clean VPN can detect the identity of users, protect against malware and unauthorized access based on granular policy before authorizing access, and connect authorized users easily to mission-critical network resources. Only SonicWALL is capable of delivering a truly viable Clean VPN, because only SonicWALL can offer a unified policy model allowing dynamic access policies, and the revolutionary ultra-high-performance security of Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection over a multi-core processing platform.

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FactPoint: 10 Trends and Technologies Driving Secure Telecommuting

These 10 trends and technologies put telecommuting on the cusp of a period of rapid growth. Two general categories are stronger today than they have been anytime in the last five years: Financial drivers and enabling technologies. The technology enablers of telecommuting work include reliable secure remote access, wider access to broadband Internet, new collaborative applications, and the popularity of PDAs and smartphones. Add heightened public awareness of global warming and the original push from employees seeking better balance between their work and family lives. This time, telework may actually work.  

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Clean VPN Approach to Secure Remote Access

A SonicWALL Clean VPN can detect the identity of users and security state of the endpoint device, protect against malware and unauthorized access based on granular policy before authorizing access, and connect authorized users easily to mission-critical network resources. Only SonicWALL is capable of delivering a truly viable Clean VPN, because only SonicWALL can offer granular endpoint control, a unified policy model allowing dynamic access policies, and the revolutionary ultra-high-performance security of Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection over a multi-core processing platform.

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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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An Advanced Reputation Management Approach to Stopping Emerging Email Threats

Advanced Reputation Management delivers the most effective defense against the latest emerging email threats. ARM greatly expands the concept and functionality of reputation management beyond identification and classification listing of Sender IP addresses alone. Defending against the onset of increasingly sophisticated threats, Advanced Reputation Management forms the cornerstone of an integrated multi- layered approach to protect organizations from inbound spam, phishing and email-borne malware, as well as from outbound data leaks and botnet transmissions.

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Building a Better Spam Trap: Choosing the Best Defense for Tomorrow's Emerging Email Threats

As email-based threats grow more numerous, more sophisticated and potentially more harmful, conventional single-point solutions alone have become less effective. A more sophisticated, multi-layer defense is required to combat the emergence of new blended forms of spam and other email-based attacks. Applying seventh-generation technology and dedicated research and development, SonicWALL's award-winning Anti-Spam/Email Security solutions deliver comprehensive multi-layered protection, while streamlining administration to lower total cost of ownership.

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Phishing: When E-Mail Is the Enemy

Phishing is not new and businesses have fought the phisher since the beginning of e-commerce. But just as business practices evolve to keep pace with emerging technology, phishers also adapt to the new opportunities that technology offers. Nevertheless, by understanding phishing as a distinct and more sophisticated type of email threat, and by seeking solutions designed specifically to stop phishing e-mail, you can protect yourself and your organization.

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Bayesian Spam Classification Applied to Phishing E-Mail

Effective e-mail security solutions must protect users from all types of e-mail threats. However, each threat must be treated differently to address its unique properties. Bayesian filtering has been successfully combating spam.  However, this same filter cannot be applied to phishing. Instead, a Bayesian phishing filter can be created through layering different features which are strong indicators of phishing. Test results show that Bayesian rules can be effectively applied to identifying phishing. This identification allows phishing e-mails to be uniquely categorized. Even if recipients can not recognize the e-mails as phishing, the e-mails can be securely removed from the inbox and labeled appropriately, helping to keep users safe.

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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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An Intelligent Approach to Comprehensive Disaster Recovery

How to implement a comprehensive disaster recovery plan, while eliminating cost and complexity to provide an optimal return on investment.

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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 New Case for Continuous Data Protection: Challenges, Best Practices & Solutions

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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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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The K-12 Budget Case for Internet Security

School budgets have not kept up with the explosive pace of instructional Internet access, or the corresponding threat to academic and administrative resources. This paper explores trends in academic Internet use, the budgetary arguments for greater information security, and funding considerations unique to academic environments.  SonicWALL solutions provide powerful, granular and complete security solutions that reduce the cost and complexity of running educational networks.

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Securing K-12 Wireless Networks

Wireless networking is being incorporated into many educational environments to add flexibility and increase productivity.  This paper examines security issues to consider when evaluating security solutions for academic wireless networks.  The SonicWALL Secure Distributed Wireless Solution offers schools and school districts with a comprehensive, cost-effective approach to implementing and extending wireless academic networks.

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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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Telecommuting and the Federal Government

Telecommuting or telework has been gaining momentum as a leading employment practice at all levels of government. SonicWALL delivers dual protection for telework based on its Clean VPN approach to security. It delivers not only secure SSL VPN remote access but also protects the integrity of VPN tra#c with high-performance Uni#ed Threat Management (UTM). A SonicWALL Clean VPN allows agencies to safely extend their networks for anywhere, anytime access and thus increase productivity, collaborate with Web 2.0, e#ciently manage workforce shifts, reduce operational costs and work green.

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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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Network and Data Protection for Healthcare

Everybody agrees that information is critical to the treatment of any patient. Giving caregivers access to that information anytime from anywhere can yield important productivity gains. But users need to be sure that the information will be accurate, timely and confidential. SonicWALL provides comprehensive solutions to meet all these needs and securely extend the reach of the healthcare community.

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Extending the Reach of Healthcare Organizations with Secure Networking

Everybody agrees that information is critical to the treatment of any patient. Giving caregivers access to that information anytime from anywhere can yield important productivity gains. But users need to be sure that the information will be accurate, timely and confidential. SonicWALL provides comprehensive solutions to meet all these needs and securely extend the reach of the healthcare community.

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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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SearchSecurity.com: Keeping Up with PCI - Implementing Network Segmentation and Monitoring Security Controls

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) requirements specify that the security controls you implement must be monitored and tested. This includes specifications for logging, monitoring and penetration testing. In this expert e-guide, get tips on establishing a process for logging activity and tying records to users, and three main requirements for testing security controls. Also, find out how to implement PCI network segmentation and how it may ease PCI compliance for your organization.

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Adapting to Retail's New Reality: Critical Steps for 2009

As the business outlook has darkened during the past few months, so have the restless sleeping patterns of top-level retail executives. Coping with the new realities of today’s economic climate requires retailers to sharpen their focus on what matters most, and to commit their organizations to a short but highly strategic priority list. The first step is deciding which priorities to focus on: labor, inventory, financial management, and ITmanagement. The next step—and it’s a crucial one—is managing all of these priorities with impeccable execution and flawless efficiency.

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Successful Security Strategies for Retailers in a Challenging Economy

SonicWALL, a leading provider of security solutions, enables retailers to adopt a holistic approach to security that can ensure a competitive advantage. Through a scalable portfolio of security solutions featuring an advanced range of Web security, voice, wireless, and remote access technologies, SonicWALL helps retailers protect the complex retail environment, accelerate customer loyalty, and remain productive and profitable.

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Retail: Securing the Competitive Edge with Technology

Retailers stand to gain more competitive advantages in the marketplace from technology than ever before, with corresponding gains in cost reduction, revenue opportunities and customer satisfaction.  To secure this competitive edge, however, retailers must take a comprehensive approach to protecting their technology from increasingly sophisticated threats. SonicWALL is committed to providing retailers of all size with solutions of greater security value than the competition, at a significantly lower total cost of ownership, through purpose-built solutions designed to address retail’s unique security requirements.

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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 organisations 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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