SonicWALL Application Intelligence and Control

Partner Brief
FIREWALL Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization

Misuse of applications such as instant messaging, chat services, peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, social networking sites, and streaming video
can significantly degrade network performance and impact business productivity. Further complicating matters, many of these applications
share ports with common protocols such as HTTP and HTTPS, thereby reducing traffic visibility and opening up additional channels for
potential security breaches and viruses, Trojans and other malware. To counter these threats and regain visibility into network traffic, network
inspection must be elevated to the application layer.

SonicWALL® Application Intelligence and Control extends the protection and functionality of SonicWALL firewalls beyond blocking
traditional malware threats and intrusion prevention to include intelligent traffic management of applications. This extended capability
provides application bandwidth management, access controls, data leakage prevention, restrictions on the transfer of specific files and
documents, and much more. Application Intelligence and Control is both comprehensive and easy to use, identifying a continuously growing
base of over 3,000 unique applications uses. The Application Intelligence and Control Service is available as part of the SonicWALL Gateway
Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention Service as well as the SonicWALL Comprehensive Gateway Security Suite (CGSS) on the TZ
210, NSA and E-Class NSA Series firewalls. The SonicWALL Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection engine is capable of inspecting hundreds
of thousands of connections simultaneously across all 65,535 ports equally, with nearly zero latency and without stream size limitations.

Administrators must also visualize application traffic to control network use properly and to adjust network policy based on critical
observations. With SonicOS 5.8, the SonicWALL Application Flow Monitor is now a standard feature on all SonicWALL firewalls from the TZ 210
and up and provides real-time visualization of all network traffic. Included are graphs of applications, ingress and egress bandwidth, Web sites
visited and all user activity. When the Application Flow Monitor is paired with a subscription including Application Intelligence and Control,
partners and administrators will be able to win back control of the network with granular control of applications and users.

Value Proposition for Your Business

■ Deliver a richer level of security to your clients by augmenting malware protection and intrusion prevention with application bandwidth

management, access controls, and data leakage prevention

■ Better position yourself as a trusted advisor by leveraging the new application visualization capabilities to identify emerging threats or

security concerns
■ Reduce time to resolution with the new network trouble shooting and visualization features

■ Increase professional services opportunities with the deeper level of application control and protection

■ Improve the depth of reporting and visibility of network traffic for managed services clients

■ Achieve higher levels of client satisfaction through superior security, improved network control, and speedier problem resolution

Value Propositions for Your Clients

■ Put the power back into the hands of IT administrators with new levels of network management and granular policy control of applications and users
■ Delicately balance IT’s needs for security and data protection with the diverse application needs of today’s users

■ Prioritize mission critical applications over distracting, unproductive, or bandwidth-hogging applications

■ Prevent data leakage, while ensuring compliance with key legal and privacy obligations

■ Ensure high levels of employee productivity and satisfaction by guaranteeing bandwidth and QoS required for excellence on the job

■ Identify and stop emerging threats or dangerous user behavior before major breaches or impacts can occur

■ Manage policies by pre-defined, categories (such as social media or gaming), individual applications, or even users and groups

Competitive Advantages
■ Differentiate your professional or managed service offering with higher level of intelligence and network visibility
■ Develop unique reporting features for your managed service offering

■ Achieve the highest levels of client satisfaction through speedier problem resolution and network management

■ Provide and confidently commit to Software Level Agreements for network uptime and resilience
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Intelligence Control Visualization

■ Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection™ ■ Intelligence-based Policy Enforcement ■ View Network Threats and Trends in Real-time
■ Identify and Categorize Application ■ Application and Content Control ■ View Application Traffic by Users

Traffic by Source and Destination ■ Industry-leading 3,000+ Application ■ View Application Bandwidth Usage

■ Identify and Categorize by Application ■ Application-level Bandwidth ■ View URL Domain Access

(not just Port and Protocol) Management

■ Identify and Categorize by User/Group

(not just IP)

Application Visualization
Real-time graphs of applications, ingress and egress bandwidth, Web sites visited and all user activity enables administrators to modify application rules to
conform to network policies.

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