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Network Security
Management
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Manage Your
Security Perimeter.
The SonicWALL® Global Management System
(GMS) provides organizations of any size, distributed enterprises and
service providers with a flexible, powerful and intuitive solution to
centrally manage and rapidly deploy SonicWALL appliances and security policy
configurations. SonicWALL GMS™ also provides centralized real-time
monitoring, and comprehensive policy and compliance reporting.
SonicWALL GMS’ intuitive Web-based user
interface easily allows for complete life cycle control of thousands of
SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, secure remote access, and backup and recovery
appliances and services—from initial configuration to complex policy changes
and remote updates. For enterprises, GMS simplifies the complexity of
network management by offering a single management interface, thereby
reducing administration time, complexity and the overall total cost of
ownership (TCO). Service providers benefit from its multi-organizational
management capabilities where it consolidates, groups and classifies
thousands of individual customers’ managed appliances and their respective
security policies. Through an integrated reporting architecture,
administrators can customize and schedule reports individually tailored to
meet the needs of managed customers, executives and regulatory compliance
audits for corporate departments. SonicWALL GMS can be flexibly deployed as
a software application on a third party Windows® server, as a SonicWALL
E-Class Universal Management Appliance, or as a SonicWALL GMS Virtual
Appliance in a VMware® environment.
SonicWALL provides a scalable, cost-effective security management system for
SonicWALL Internet security appliances and security
services.
Features & Benefits
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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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. |
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deployment options
include software
(leveraging existing infrastructure), hardware (leveraging a
hardened high-performance appliance), or a virtual appliance
(leveraging shared computing resources to optimize utilization,
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Network Security Management Components
 Global Management System (GMS)
SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) provides organizations,
distributed enterprises and service providers with a flexible, powerful
and intuitive tool to centrally manage and rapidly deploy SonicWALL
firewall, anti-spam, backup and recovery, secure remote access solutions
and security policy configurations. Organizations can globally manage
and collect detailed information from security applications such as
gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention and content
filtering, all from a single console. SonicWALL GMS™ also provides
centralized real-time monitoring, and comprehensive policy and
compliance reporting. SonicWALL GMS’ intuitive Web-based user interface
easily allows for complete life cycle control of thousands of SonicWALL
firewall, anti-spam, secure remote access, and backup and recovery
appliances and services—from initial configuration to complex policy
changes and remote updates. For enterprises, GMS simplifies the
complexity of network management by offering a single management
interface, thereby reducing administration time, complexity and the
overall total cost of ownership (TCO). Service providers benefit from
its multi-organizational management capabilities where it consolidates,
groups and classifies thousands of individual customers’ managed
appliances and their respective security policies. Through an integrated
reporting architecture, administrators can customize and schedule
reports individually tailored to meet the needs of managed customers,
executives and regulatory compliance audits for corporate departments.
ViewPoint
SonicWALL® ViewPoint™ is an
easy-to-use Web-based reporting tool that fully complements and extends
SonicWALL’s security products and services. Comprehensive reporting
capabilities provide administrators instant insight into the health of
their network including both performance and security. Using both a
customizable dashboard and a variety of historical reports, SonicWALL
ViewPoint helps organizations of all sizes track network utilization,
monitor security activity and view Web and application usage. SonicWALL
ViewPoint software is easy to install and maintain, allowing multiple
users to log in simultaneously and generate reports specific to their
areas of responsibilities. Available as software or virtual appliance,
SonicWALL ViewPoint can be deployed as a software application on a third
party Windows® server or as a SonicWALL Virtual Appliance in a VMware®
environment. Traffic over wired and wireless LAN, WAN or VPN networks
are illustrated based on information and events received from SonicWALL
appliances. Furthermore, SonicWALL ViewPoint provides customizable and
scheduled reports in a variety of exportable formats that aid
organizations in preparing for regulatory compliance audits.
 UMA
EM5000
The SonicWALL E-Class Universal
Management Appliance (UMA) EM5000 centralizes policy management,
monitoring and reporting for multiple SonicWALL appliances. The EM5000
provides an easier way to configure, enforce and manage global policies
for SonicWALL firewall, anti-spam, backup and recovery, and secure
remote access solutions. The appliance simplifies and automates
multi-level policy management, monitoring and compliance reporting with
flexible, powerful and intuitive tools. Multiple UMA appliances, when
deployed in a cluster, can scale to manage up to thousands of SonicWALL
security appliances. This makes the SonicWALL UMA an ideal solution for
small-to-medium sized businesses, larger enterprises and managed service
providers that have either single-site or distributed multi-site
environments.
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