Ways to Cut Costs and Complexity
Consolidating Enterprise
Network Security Infrastructure
Table of Contents
Securing the Enterprise Network
1
Budgets are down
2
Risks are up
3
Point Solutions: Fragile and Complex
4
The Promise of UTM: Consolidated Security
5
SonicWALL NSA and E-Class NSA:
6
Best-in-Class Consolidated Security
The SonicWALL Advantage
7
SonicWALL Comprehensive Protection
8
SonicWALL Application Firewall
8
SonicWALL Clean Wireless
10
SonicWALL GRID Network
11
SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS)
12
Conclusion
13
In today’s economy, large enterprise businesses and their IT
organizations need to do more with less. It is the responsibility
of IT to optimize limited resources and garner the greatest
return on budgets. Enterprises are leading the way and reaping
the benefits of consolidation, centralizing data centers and
embracing virtualization initiatives.
Enterprises have the opportunity to optimize productivity and minimize total cost of
ownership (TCO)—while also maximizing security against Web 2.0-based threats—by
consolidating multiple security technologies into a single Unified Threat Management
(UTM) firewall solution.
Securing the Enterprise Network
1
The value of economizing through
consolidation also applies to information security.
Forecasts show IT security budgets will continue a period of moderate
contraction in the coming years or, at best, remain stable, due in part to the
weakened state of the worldwide economy and the associated challenges
this presents to the majority of businesses.
Many enterprises have become complacent, when they
don’t see frequent reminder in the form of major, network-
based attack in the news. And, they begin to feel that
making further investments in network security may
not be necessary. When faced with tighter budgets, some
enterprises shortsightedly forego necessary security in the
name of thrift.
2
Budgets are down
Budgets are not the only factor
weakening network security.
In reality, the volume, diversity, soph