SonicWall triples threat performance, dramatically improves TCO with trio of new enterprise firewalls

SonicWall today announced three new high-performance firewall models for enterprises and large organisations – NSa 4700, NSa 6700 and NSsp 13700 – designed to accelerate network throughput, stop advanced cyber attacks like ransomware, and securely connect millions of users. Featuring some of the highest port densities in their class, the new appliances help enterprises keep pace with the speeds of their growing networks – all while drastically reducing total cost of ownership (TCO).

“The growing volume of ransomware attacks has enterprises and government agencies moving quickly to evaluate their mitigation capabilities and strengthen their security postures,” said SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner. “The recent string of highly publicised cyber attacks has catapulted security to the top of the priority list. We’re there to help by delivering multiple options to cost-effectively protect even the largest environments. With higher port densities and more capacity, the new offerings dramatically disrupt the traditional cost structure as organisations need fewer appliances to secure the same environment.”

New NSa firewalls disrupt cost expectations by tripling throughput, expanding port densities

The new SonicWall NSa 4700 and NSa 6700 next-generation firewalls deliver 18Gbps and 36Gbps of firewall throughput – three times the previous comparable SonicWall appliances. Both also support critical TLS 1.3 encryption standards.

“When designing large networks, high-bandwidth interfaces are a critical component,” said NW Technology owner Ryan Oord. “SonicWall’s new NSa series provides interface options that fit the different needs of varying and sizeable networks.”

The NSa models boast some of the highest port densities in their class; the NSa 6700 even offers both 40G and 25G connectivity, delivering multi-gigabit threat protection for large environments. These higher port densities, coupled with hardware redundancy and high availability, allow distributed enterprises to purchase fewer appliances while supporting more secure connections as their networks grow.

The NSa 4700 and NSa 6700 provide up to 115 000 and 153 000 connections, respectively, per second. They also support up to 2 million or 6 million concurrent DPI connections, and up to 4 000 or 6 000 site-to-site VPN tunnels.

High-performance NSsp 13700 firewalls designed to protect the fastest, most complex environments

The new SonicWall NSsp 13700 is an advanced next-generation firewall for high-speed threat protection designed for enterprise-class networks and MSSPs, which supports millions of encrypted connections.

The NSsp 13700 next-generation firewall delivers elite speeds for threat prevention throughput (45.5Gbps), IPS (48Gbps) and IPsec (29Gbps), and includes scalable hardware architecture with high port density. Like SonicWall’s other new offerings, the NSsp 13700 supports the latest TLS 1.3 encryption standard.

New Capture Labs Portal delivers research tools, centralised repository

Information-sharing and collaboration is a critical component of an organisation’s defensive posture. SonicWall is consolidating access to threat research and security news through the Capture Labs Portal, a free and centralised repository of research tools available to the public where visitors can track malicious actors and remain up to date with latest zero-day vulnerabilities.

To help expedite remediation, the Capture Labs Portal offers a single repository to look up threat signature, CVE details, IP reputation and URL reputation, making it effortless to do your threat research from a single interface. SonicWall PSIRT advisories and Capture Labs threat researcher blogs with news regarding the latest vulnerabilities can be easily and quickly sought out to take action in response to emerging threats, attack vectors or vulnerabilities.

Simplify secure SD-WAN deployment, management with new orchestration and monitoring capabilities

Enterprises, service providers, government agencies and MSSPs can efficiently manage large-scale deployments with SonicWall’s cloud-native Network Security Manager (NSM), which delivers a single, easy-to-use cloud interface for streamlined management, analytics and reporting.

With NSM 2.3, network infrastructure teams can quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues as they monitor secure SD-WAN landscapes in real-time. Administrators can monitor the health and performance of complete SD-WAN environments to ensure consistent configurations and drive optimal application performance.

SD-WAN environments are now easily organised using SonicWall’s new and intuitive self-guided workflow as well as the use of templates that allow the provisioning of thousands of remote firewalls efficiently.

Enterprises also can leverage the NSM wizard-based set-up process to ensure proper configuration for site-to-site VPN connectivity, and use the monitoring tools to track the connections and ensure optimum performance.

Optimise productivity with enhanced network visibility, monitoring and reporting

Managing employees' internet utilisation and behaviour can be a substantial challenge for organisations. SonicWall has enhanced network visibility and reporting capabilities across security devices, users, VPN connections and more.

SonicWall Analytics 3.1 delivers productivity reports to provide insights into employees' internet utilisation and behaviour. Generated snapshots and drill-down reports can classify users' web activities into productivity groups such as productive, unproductive, acceptable, unacceptable or custom-defined groups.

Drill-down capabilities enable analysts to easily and quickly pivot and investigate data points of interest at the user level, and establish evidence-backed, policy-controlled measures for risky users and applications as they unfold in the discovery process.

New VPN reports allow organisations to summarise what company resources are being accessed inside VPN tunnels, how much bandwidth they are consuming and by whom. Network admins can leverage this information for monitoring business-critical applications, controlling or shaping traffic and planning for capacity growth.

Zero-trust security offering expanded to include more granular control

SonicWall also introduced Device Posture Check with SonicWall Cloud Edge Secure Access 1.1, and the addition of new Network Traffic Control that enforces access control to the resources based on user groups, IP addresses, ports and network protocols.