Gateway Anti-virus

Every day, new viruses are released that have destructive consequences for businesses worldwide. Some have the ability to spread within hours and affect computers and networks of all sizes. Viruses, worms, Trojans and spyware programs cause serious financial damage to companies through data deletion, loss of productivity, network computer downtime, IT administrative overhead and bandwidth consumption. As these attacks become more dynamic and malicious in nature, businesses are forced to look past client-based protection and stop viruses before they have a chance to inflict damage.

SonicWALL has responded to these threats by developing scalable, high-speed gateway anti-virus and intrusion prevention for our TZ 170 and PRO Series security gateways. SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus/Intrusion Prevention Service delivers intelligent, real-time network security protection against viruses, worms, Trojans and spyware programs. Utilizing a configurable, high-performance deep packet inspection architecture, SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus/Intrusion Prevention Service secures the network from the core to the perimeter against a comprehensive array of dynamic threats including viruses, worms, Trojans, software vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and spyware programs, as well as peer-to-peer and instant messenger applications, backdoor exploits, and other malicious code.

This unique solution features a high-performance deep packet inspection engine that delivers threat protection directly on the security gateway by matching downloaded, e-mailed and compressed files against an extensive signature database. Because new threats emerge daily and are often unpredictable, the signature database is constantly updated to deliver the highest protection possible against an ever-changing threat landscape. New signatures are created and added to the database by a combination of SonicWALL's SonicAlert Team and third-party sources. As an added layer of security, SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus/Intrusion Prevention Service provides application layer attack protection not only against external threats, but also against those originating inside the network.

SonicWALL Multilayered Approach

1 ↓	Remote Site Gateway Protection
2 ↓	Internal Network Protection
3 ↓	File Download Protection
4 ↓	Desktop and Server Protection

Gateway Anti-Virus Key Features and Benefits

Delivers intelligent file-based virus and malicious code prevention by scanning in real-time for decompressed and compressed files containing viruses, Trojans, worms and other Internet threats over the corporate network

Utilizes an extensive database of thousands of high threat virus signatures written to detect and prevent viruses, Trojans, worms and other malware, as well as peer-to-peer and instant messaging file transfers

Utilizes a first-to-market per packet scanning engine to handle unlimited file sizes and virtually hundreds of thousands of concurrent downloads, offering ultimate scalability and performance for today’s networked environment

Provides an additional layer of protection against malicious threats by allowing administrators to enforce real-time gateway anti-virus scanning not only between each network zone and the Internet, but also between internal network zones

Ensures incredibly fast time-to-protection by employing a dynamically-updated database of high threat virus signatures created by a combination of SonicWALL’s SonicAlert Team, third-party virus analysts and developers, and open source databases of known threats

Delivers protection for high threat viruses and malware by inspecting over the most common protocols used in today’s networked environments, including SMTP, POP3, IMAP, HTTP, FTP, NetBIOS, instant messaging and peer-to-peer applications and dozens of other stream-based protocols