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MS12-020 fixes critical RDP flaw

Friday, March 16, 2012 10:47:26 PM America/New_York

Microsoft’s Security Bulletin MS12-020 published on March 13, 2012 fixes a critical vulnerability (CVE-2012-0002) in Microsoft's implementation of RDP.

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New SonicWALL TZ 215 UTM Firewall Released!

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 5:31:25 PM America/New_York

sonicwall tz 215 firewall The SonicWALL TZ 215 is the highest performing, most secure Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewall available today. The TZ 215 delivers the most effective anti-malware, intrusion prevention, and content/URL filtering along with the broadest mobile platform support for laptops, smartphones and tablets.
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History and Evolution of Firewalls – Part 2

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:27:04 PM America/New_York

firewalls history

The history of firewalls is full of terms that label a type of firewall or describe a generation of firewalls. Some of these terms are evasive and even manage to contradict themselves; they may be the result of mixing the research definitions with marketing terminology.

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SonicOS Enhanced 5.8.1 Features: Wire/Tap Modes

Saturday, February 11, 2012 9:45:02 AM America/New_York

soniccos enhanced

Two key features in SonicOS Enhanced 5.8.1 regarding the mode of deployment of a SonicWALL firewall appliance are: Wire Mode and Tap Mode. The Wired Mode enables you to augment existing firewalls by inserting in a least-intrusive manner a NGFW while the TAP mode allows you to perform traffic inspection and analysis using an out-of-path model.

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Finding Torrent Users Using SonicWALL Analyzer

Thursday, February 9, 2012 6:00:55 PM America/New_York

SonicWALL Analyzer allows you to find and document users' activities on the Internet. Learn how you can quickly identify these users to prevent them from jeopardizing your network's integrity and consuming your Internet bandwidth. Read More

Securing RDP with VPN

Friday, February 3, 2012 8:12:16 AM America/New_York

Microsoft Remote Desktop services (RDP)

Using RDP without VPN exposes both RDP servers and clients to various attacks. SSL VPN can represent a simple and convenient way of securing RDP. In this article we have discussed: Why not expose directly to the Internet the RDP server and Why access the RDP server over VPN.

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SonicOS Version 5.8.1.5 Now Available

Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:01:33 AM America/New_York

sonicos 5.8.1.5 releasedThe SonicOS 5.8.1.5 is released. It resolved many issues, like: Domain limitation for Content Filtering System, Newly added Common Name Exclusions in DPI-SSL, duplicate policies and extra characters in NAT Policy of Networking, fixed for user level Authentication and many more. Read More

UTM Firewalls versus Next Generation Firewalls

Monday, January 30, 2012 1:29:28 PM America/New_York

utm vs next generation firewallAn UTM can do many of the things a NGFW does. The UTM normally rather collocates security services on a single appliance while the NGFW integrates them into a single engine on a single appliance. As a result, the NGFW takes to a different level the performance offered when DPI is performed while offering great application control and visibility into the network traffic. Read More

SonicWALL Port Forwarding How-To Video

Friday, January 20, 2012 11:54:52 AM America/New_York

sonicwall port forwarding Port forwarding enables remote clients to access a specific service on a server located on the internal network behind the firewall. It is a form of NAT which allows you to forward a specific port to a specific host. Learn more about SonicWALL port forwarding and how to implement them in your firewall.
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SonicWALL Mobile Connect

Monday, January 9, 2012 1:30:12 AM America/New_York

SonicWALL Mobile Connect is a single VPN client, SSL-based, allows easy and secure remote access to needed resources for employees owned mobile devices capable of using wireless connections. Furthermore the same VPN client can be used inside the corporate network from a local WLAN to access the internal network without the need to provision an authenticated and encrypted wireless connection.
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