Industry-Leading Solutions

SonicWALL, in partnership with McAfee, the leader in business anti-virus solutions, brings you two anti-virus services to protect every endpoint in your company against the most sophisticated virus threats, dangerous spyware, and productivity-draining adware.

SonicWALL Enforced Client Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware »

This service automatically enforces anti-virus and anti-spyware policies on every client, reducing administrative overhead. It provides the combination of client-based scanning and mitigation capabilities with Web-based management and reporting capabilities.

SonicWALL Client/Server Anti-Virus Suite »

This service offering combines the SonicWALL Enforced Client service with server-based anti-virus protection, with the addition of McAfee's VirusScan Enterprise for Windows and GroupShield for Exchange anti-virus protection for Windows-based File, Print, and Exchange servers.

Multi-Layered Approach

SonicWALL takes a multi-layered approach that addresses each point of vulnerability in a network. The endpoint solutions are one important part of an overall solution that includes Gateway Anti-virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention Service. This gateway service protects the perimeter—serving as one more layer of protection in the defence against viruses and spyware. Servers must also be protected, as they exchange data with outside sources and function as the central focus point in the network—and once infected could easily spread that infection to hundreds of endpoints. Server protection is delivered through the SonicWALL Client/Server Anti-Virus Suite.

Using a layered approach, the majority of threats can be caught before they have a chance to infect individual endpoint machines. But even with the best perimeter and server protection, malware may still penetrate these defences—regardless of how thorough those defences may be. In fact, a large number of malware threats do not come in from the outside, but bypass perimeter protection entirely. For example, an employee or outside contractor may plug their notebook into the network, which unknown to them, is infected with a virus because it does not have the most recent update of anti-virus software. With the last line of defence—endpoint security delivered through the SonicWALL Enforced Client Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware engine, this final vulnerability is eliminated.

Enforced Approach to Security

While IT staff may be diligent about protecting gateways and servers, protecting every individual endpoint, especially in a widely dispersed company, isn't always as easy. SonicWALL's endpoint security and the "enforced" approach solve this problem. Enforcement means that the SonicWALL security appliance verifies that all endpoints are running SonicWALL Anti-Virus with the latest virus and spyware signature files. Clients that are not in compliance are redirected to automatically download updates, and Internet access is blocked until the client becomes compliant with the anti-virus policy. Integrated desktop firewall capability provides an additional layer of firewall protection, which blocks unwanted Internet access to or from the computer.

Flexible Deployment Options

SonicWALL's Endpoint Security products are now also capable of being deployed in a stand-alone mode. This is a non-enforced deployment configuration that allows customers to deploy Enforced Client Anti-Virus without an associated UTM device.  Now non-SonicWALL UTM users can protect their desktops from the latest Internet threats with regular updates of virus and spyware signatures delivered directly to the desktop, without the need of replacing their current UTM appliance. The stand-alone client is deployed and managed via SonicWALL's MySonicWALL.com Web portal instead of from the UTM appliance management interface.

Reporting

Compliance with both internal policies and potential regulations requires another step beyond protection; it requires visibility and reporting. SonicWALL's comprehensive Web-based reporting generates easy-to-understand data that delivers a real-time and historical look at the network and individual users, and the entire anti-virus and anti-spyware environment. Reports can be generated on a pre-scheduled or on-demand basis, and can be accessed through the SonicWALL network security appliance's Web interface