| Every day, hackers become more
sophisticated in their attempts to breach corporate networks.
Over the past few years, attacks such as Nimda, Code Red,
SQL Slammer and MS Blaster targeted application vulnerabilities
and infected computers worldwide. More recently, hackers have
begun exploiting peer-to-peer and instant messaging applications
to propagate their attacks. As these attacks become more dynamic
and malicious in nature, businesses need to stay one step
ahead by employing the most robust detection and prevention
solution available.
SonicWALL has responded to these threats by adding a scalable,
high-speed Intrusion Prevention Service (IPS) to our distributed
enforcement architecture. Deep packet inspection technology
enables the firewall to more thoroughly investigate network
traffic by examining information at the application layer
to defend against both internal and external attacks.
SonicWALL IPS utilizes a configurable, ultra-high performance
deep packet inspection engine and dynamically updated database
with over 1,700 attack and vulnerability signatures to protect
all points of the network against known buffer overflow vulnerabilities
in software, as well as various worms, Trojans and application
exploits. As an added layer of protection, SonicWALL IPS mitigates
risk and legal liability while improving productivity by allowing
security administrators to monitor and manage the use of instant
messaging and peer-to-peer applications.
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