Active Virus Protection
What is active virus protection? Technically, it's a distributed, gateway-enforced anti-virus solution. What it delivers is always on, always updated anti-virus software to the network. With SonicWALL active anti-virus protection, no employee can access the Internet without the latest updates. If a virus attack happens, you can be assured that SonicWALL is updating your business' anti-virus software as soon as it is available.
SonicWALL Network Anti-Virus (NAV) includes the automatic policy enforcement and management of McAfee anti-virus signature and client software updates, and SonicWALL's attachment blocking service-all as an affordable per-client subscription.
Here's how SonicWALL Network Anti-Virus works.
Auto-Enforcement
and Management
The key to the SonicWALL Network Anti-Virus enforcement process is based on a series of communications between the McAfee VirusScan client residing on each desktop and the SonicWALL Internet security appliance.
The SonicWALL Internet security appliance stands on guard at your Internet gateway for virus update alerts and handles all the virus enforcement and management.
SonicWALL's Auto-Enforcement works like this:
Rapid
E-Mail Attachment Blocking
The SonicWALL Internet security appliance can also block new viruses even before the virus signature is available. When a new virus outbreak occurs, the virus filename is instantly relayed to the SonicWALL Internet security appliance. Any infected e-mail file attachment from the Internet is blocked at the SonicWALL Internet security appliance. This early detection system protects your network from new viruses even before their inoculations are available.
Zero Administration
SonicWALL takes anti-virus protection a giant step forward with zero administration. Auto-Enforcement manages all aspects of virus protection from client software installation to virus policy enforcement. This means no administration and no hidden IT costs inherent in other centralized virus management solutions.
Integrated Security
SonicWALL Network Anti-Virus is a member of the SonicWALL family of security products and services. The foundation of SonicWALL's comprehensive security solutions is our line of easy-to-install and easy-to-manage SonicWALL Internet security appliances. They provide enterprise-class firewall protection with an ICSA-certified, statetful packet inspection firewall, IPSec VPN for secure remote access, IP address management, and fully integrated support for SonicWALL security applications like VPN services, Network Anti-Virus, Content Filtering, and Strong Authentication. SonicWALL's intuitive Web-interface management makes security setup and management easy.
