Security Management

Manage Your Network Security Perimeter.
As distributed networks grow, so does the complexity of managing security policies and services. It is no longer simply the price/performance ratio, but increasingly it is the management platform for security devices that becomes the deciding factor in network security purchases. SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) enables distributed enterprises and service providers to manage thousands of Internet security appliances and security services from a central location to reduce staffing requirements, speed up deployment, and lower security management costs.

SonicWALL provides a scalable, cost-effective security management system for SonicWALL Internet security appliances and security services.

 

Features & Benefits

Comprehensive Security Management. SonicWALL GMS provides network administrators with configuration and management tools to globally define, distribute, enforce and deploy the full range of security services and upgrades for thousands of SonicWALL Internet security appliances. Managed VPN Services. SonicWALL GMS simplifies the task of globally defining, distributing, enforcing and deploying VPN policies for managed VPN gateways to keep all remote sites in synch with the latest security policies. Cost Effective. SonicWALL GMS delivers a cost-effective global management solution that reduces staffing requirements, speeds up deployment, and lowers the cost of delivering services by centralizing the management security policies. Streamlined License Management. SonicWALL GMS allows central license management of the SonicWALL upgrade and subscription services. It simplifies the task of storing, applying, tracking and updating upgrade and subscription license information for all the managed SonicWALL Internet security appliances. Multi-Tier Policy Hierarchy Architecture. SonicWALL GMS allows administrators to easily set up a hierarchy to group SonicWALL Internet security appliances with similar security profiles to provide network administrators with the flexibility to manage the security policies on an individual, group and global level. Distributed Security Management. SonicWALL GMS allows administrators to segment and distribute management responsibility among a group of individuals. Responsibilities can be assigned with different privileges for managed SonicWALL Internet security appliances. Customizable Viewing. SonicWALL GMS allows the network administrators to visualize the managed SonicWALL Internet security appliances at any logical view. A view of a hierarchy of managed SonicWALL Internet security appliances can be created using pre-defined or custom attributes. Database and Business Systems Integration. SonicWALL GMS supports access to industry-leading back-end databases for highly efficient and reliable data storage and retrieval. It stores its configuration files and data in databases to automatically be backed up and restored. SGMS also features a command line interface to enable custom integration with business systems. Integrated ViewPoint Reporting. SonicWALL GMS provides graphical reporting of firewall and network activities for the managed SonicWALL Internet security appliances with SonicWALL ViewPoint. With SonicWALL ViewPoint, administrators can generate a wide range of informative real time and historical reports to provide insight into usage trends and security events of the managed SonicWALL Internet security appliances.

Network Security Management Components

  Global Management System (GMS)
SonicWALL Global Management System Standard Edition (GMS) provides a highly scalable, sophisticated security management system for geographically distributed networks. GMS gives administrators the integrated tools to manage all security policies and services throughout a large-scale, multiple policy enterprise or service provider environment.

	Simplifies configuration and enforcement of global security policies
	Unifies management of SonicWALL VPN and other security applications
	Easy deployment of security applications and services

ViewPoint
ViewPoint, a Web-based graphical reporting tool, enables administrators to understand and manage their network by turning comprehensive log data from SonicWALL Internet security appliances into meaningful information without the complexity and expense of commercial reporting packages.

	Graphical, easy-to-interpret reports on network and security activities
	On-demand reporting saves administrative overhead
	Supported on Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP