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Overview
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Businesses today rely increasingly on the Internet to communicate with customers, partners and telecommuters, while performing everyday tasks that keep business and information flowing. To monitor these critical resources, IT administrators need a comprehensive view of network events and activities - such as network usage, attacks and threats, and employee Internet use - to enhance security and manage bandwidth needs.
A Web-based graphical reporting tool, SonicWALL ViewPoint provides unprecedented security awareness and control over your network environment through detailed and comprehensive reports of your network and firewall activities. ViewPoint's broad reporting capabilities allow your administrators to easily monitor network access and Internet usage, enhance security, assess risks, understand more about employee Internet use and productivity, and accurately predict future bandwidth needs.
ViewPoint creates dynamic, real-time and historical network summaries, providing a flexible, 360º view of network events and activities. Reports are based on "syslog" data streams received from each SonicWALL appliance through the wired LAN, wireless LAN, WAN or VPN tunnel. With ViewPoint, your organisation can generate individual or aggregate reports about virtually any aspect of appliance activity, including individual user or group usage patterns, events on specific appliances or groups of appliances, types and times of attacks, resource consumption and constraints, and more. An integral part of any deployment, SonicWALL ViewPoint delivers the comprehensive view of network and firewall activities your organisation needs to enhance security and manage critical resources today and tomorrow.
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Features & Benefits
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- Ease of Use. ViewPoint includes an integrated Web server, syslog server, summarisation and scheduling engines, and database to for quick, one-step installation, and its intuitive user interface saves deployment and training time. Whether connecting securely from a local or remote system, using a standard browser greatly simplifies access and navigation.
- Web-based User Interface (browser-based application). All reporting functions are performed from ViewPoint’s password-protected Web User Interface, simplifying deployment and access from a local or remote system using a Web browser application.
- Comprehensive Set of Graphical Reports. ViewPoint offers a comprehensive set of real-time and historical reports including firewall attacks, bandwidth usage, Web site visits, user activity, and more, allowing organisations to be aware of suspicious activity and to ensure high employee productivity. ViewPoint provides summaries of all types of network attacks and informative reports of user behavior, identifying time-wasting or bandwidth intensive activity.
- On-Demand Reporting. ViewPoint provides immediate reporting functionality for users requiring quick results, saving time and administration overhead.
- Automated Report Scheduling. ViewPoint provides support for emailing and archiving daily/weekly/monthly reports, allowing users to share data with the management team and to archive the reports for future use.
- New Attack Intelligence. Intelligence on attack and intrusion attempts is critical in today’s environments. Viewpoint can now offer more granular reporting on each kind of attack and intrusion happening on the firewall as well as the source of the attack. Knowing the source allows administrators to react faster to oncoming threats, both externally and internally.
- Reporting Based on User Accounts. ViewPoint provides support for reports based on individual user names instead of the IP address or hostname of their systems.
- Aggregate Reports. ViewPoint supports multiple firewalls, allowing organisations with more than one firewall to view aggregate reports of their firewall activities from a single application. This helps organisations better understand their Internet bandwidth usage and plan for future capacity needs.
- Understand Your VPN Investment. ViewPoint extends administrator control by tracking on a per user basis how much and what kind of traffic is being generated on a per VPN SA basis.
- CFS Category Reporting. ViewPoint creates categorised reports on the active users and the filtered Web sites that they have attempted to visit.
- New Bandwidth Report per Interface. ViewPoint provides additional reports on incoming versus outgoing traffic per firewall interface so that you can understand how your bandwidth is being used.
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Specifications
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SonicWALL Viewpoint 2.5 is a Windows-based software application. The recommended system requirements are listed below, but a high-performance, dedicated server with a fast CPU will greatly improve operation and report speeds. | | Minimum System Requirements
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Windows 2003 | | 1.4GHz Intel Pentium III or IV processor, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB
available disk space, and Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 5.5
or higher. | | SonicWALL firmware version 6.1.2.0 or SonicOS 1.0 or higher
for SonicWALL Internet security appliances generating reports. | | |
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Associated Products
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Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention
SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention Service integrates gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware and intrusion prevention to deliver intelligent, real-time network security protection against sophisticated application layer and content-based attacks. Utilizing a configurable, high-performance deep packet inspection architecture, SonicWALL Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention Service secures the network from the core to the perimeter against a comprehensive array of dynamic threats including viruses, spyware, worms, Trojans and software vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows, as well as peer-to-peer and instant messenger applications, backdoor exploits, and other malicious code. |
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Complete Anti-Virus
Developed in partnership with McAfee, SonicWALL Complete Anti-Virus combines the enforced desktop protection offered by SonicWALL’s patent-pending Network Anti-Virus with comprehensive server protection offered by the award-winning McAfee NetShield and GroupShield applications for Windows-based File, Print and Exchange servers. |
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Content Filtering Service
SonicWALL Content Filtering Service (CFS) Standard and Premium Editions are the ideal filtering solutions for businesses looking to improve productivity, and schools and libraries seeking to comply with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). These scalable, enterprise-class solutions feature a powerful rating and caching architecture that leverages a database of millions of continuously updated Web sites. SonicWALL CFS solutions can be managed through any SonicWALL firewall, eliminating the need for a costly, dedicated filtering server. |
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Global Management
SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS) provides distributed enterprises and service providers with flexible, powerful and intuitive tools to manage anywhere from a few to thousands of remote SonicWALL Internet security appliances, VPN and security services such as anti-virus and content filtering, all from a central location. |
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Global VPN Client
With the SonicWALL Global VPN Client, mobile users have a simple, easy-to-use solution for securely accessing the corporate network. The Global VPN Client software provides mobile users with secure, reliable access to corporate resources through broadband, wireless and dial-up connections. Custom-developed by SonicWALL, the Global VPN Client has been specifically engineered to take advantage of the features and benefits of SonicWALL’s third-generation and higher Internet security appliances, adding greater value to SonicWALL’s remote access solutions. |
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Global Security Client
Utilising SonicWALL’s distributed enforcement architecture, the Global Security Client extends gateway enforcement, central management, configuration flexibility and software deployment, to deliver comprehensive desktop security to mobile workers and corporate networks. The Global Security Client addresses the needs of businesses looking to deploy a secure, easy-to-use solution to mobile workers while at the same time delivering a low total cost of ownership (TCO) through automated policy enforcement and software distribution at the gateway. |
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