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What is Sophos EnterpriseProtect?

By Andrew Harmon

Posted On November 16, 2018

Enterprise + Protect = EnterpriseProtect

Okay, the answer to our network security riddle courtesy of Sophos isn’t quite that simple, but getting your hands on one of these bundles will make protecting your organization’s cyber assets as easy as 1 + 1 = 2. Let’s back up and go over a few terms. A bundle is made up of related products and services combined into one handy package. Sophos is a worldwide leader in cybersecurity hardware and software, entrusted by organizations of many shapes and sizes with protecting their networks.

EnterpriseProtect pairs next-generation Sophos XG firewalls with always-on security services and support. The bundle features Sophos Network Protection, Web Protection, and Enhanced Support so your firewall will be ready to offer comprehensive network security on day one. Now that we’ve gone over the basics of what EnterpriseProtect is, let’s dive deeper into each piece of the bundle.

XG Firewall

The cornerstone of network security is the firewall and you can’t find a much stronger one than the Sophos XG series. There’s an XG model to fit just about any size of an organization, whether you have 25 or 2,500 users. These firewalls are known for their superior ability to expose hidden risks, block unknown threats, and automatically respond to infections to isolate and stop them in their tracks.

Network Protection

If you have an XG firewall, you’re already well on your way to winning the network security battle, but EnterpriseProtect doesn’t stop there. A Network Protection subscription includes NSS top-rated intrusion prevention, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) to detect and block bad traffic, and the Sophos Security Heartbeat to instantly diagnose compromised endpoints.

You also get both clientless VPN support as well as Remote Ethernet Device (RED) VPN options, which feature central management for all RED devices and automatic connection with no configuration necessary, providing plug-and-play access to remote users.

Web Protection

Another reason to have a firewall is to manage web traffic, both inbound and outbound, so busy users can’t stress your network. A Web Protection subscription gives you live, real-time protection with enhanced web filtering that has millions of blacklisted sites already flagged (and more URLs added every day) by SophosLabs.

You can also set policies for surfing and access time, dynamically block unwanted keywords and applications with Smart Filters, and count on SafeSearch enforcement. All this, with advanced malware scanning and protection and cloud application visibility.

Enhanced Support

All of these features and services are vital to a secure network, but just like Michael Jordan couldn’t win six NBA titles without Scottie Pippen, keeping your network humming in championship form requires that someone have your back.

Enhanced Support offers a warranty and hardware replacement for your firewall, as well as 24/7 multi-channel support, software downloads, updates, and maintenance courtesy of Sophos. Rest assured that your network will have its own strong supporting cast.

That’s EnterpriseProtect in a nutshell. Now that you understand your options, you may be wondering which Sophos XG Firewall best fits your needs? We’ve got you covered with our Sophos Buyer’s Guide, featuring all the information you’ll need to make the best choice for your organization’s network protection.

And speaking of bundles, how does a free XG Firewall sound? If you purchase three years of EnterpriseGuard Plus (which features all those services described above, plus the Sandstorm cloud-based sandbox), FullGuard (which includes the services described above along with Email and Web Server Protection), or FullGuard Plus (which combines the best of both subscription packages), we’ll throw in your Sophos XG firewall for free!

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Pro Services Spotlight: Shaping Network Access

By Andrew Harmon

Posted On November 8, 2018

Pro Services Spotlight: Shaping Network Access

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While quality network security appliances are crucial for your organization’s success, there are more factors at play when it comes to ensuring your network functions at the highest levels possible. That’s why, in addition to top-notch hardware, we have a staff of manufacturer-certified experts offering a variety of customized solutions to help your network excel. Our engineers, located on-site at our Indianapolis Security Operations Center, can assist with anything from email security to phone systems. We offer both hourly support contracts and one-time security services.

We introduced you to a few of our Professional Services in the first of our Pro Services Spotlight posts, and a few more in the second. As we wrap up the series, we’ll explore how our experts can help you create a content and accessibility framework that maximizes security and productivity.

Content Filtering

Are you concerned employees are spending too much time watching videos or updating their social media accounts instead of working? Or maybe you just want to ensure the websites they visit are legal and secure.

Either way, we can give you granular control of the sites your users can access. Through content filtering, you can even customize rules to specific groups, so if your marketing team needs to post on your organization’s Facebook, they can, while the rest of your employees have to use their own time to scroll through puppy photos. And if you ever want to tweak your policies for any reason, we can help with that, too.

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Access Control Lists

Winters here in Indianapolis can get pretty frigid, so to keep warm, layering is key. That same principle applies when it comes to protecting your network. Access Control Lists can provide an extra blanket of security to your organization by allowing you to create ground rules for what your network lets in, who can see it, and when.

Our experts can help you build upon existing blacklists and whitelists to create firm controls unique to your organization’s needs. Limiting how users and groups can interact through your network can also limit access to sensitive data, functions, and applications, which not only keeps your information secure, it also helps you meet regulatory compliance requirements.

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Single Sign-On

It can be hard to keep track of who’s who and who’s where on your network. At least that used to be a problem…

With Single Sign-On setup by our engineers, your employees’ identities can transfer seamlessly from device to device, allowing you to easily track individual activity. It’s like a FitBit that instead of measuring their steps, measures their activity on your network. Employees can also appreciate this feature, as it eases access to their personal files and configurations – saving them time and headaches (and frantic calls to the IT department) when moving between devices.

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Explore All Our Services

These are just a few of the many Professional Services our Firewalls.com experts offer. If you’re interested in one or all of them, see our full suite of options or call us today at 317-225-4117 to learn more.

SonicWall SMB Bundles: Enterprise Security for Small Businesses

By Andrew Harmon

Posted On November 2, 2018

SonicWall SMB Bundles: Enterprise Security for Small Businesses

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SonicWall SMB Bundles Deliver Cost-Effective All-In-One Solutions

Small businesses can be big targets for cybercrime and often, SMBs don’t have the specialized staff or budget necessary to keep up with the arms race. Small business owners know they need network security, but question where to start. SonicWall is making “square one” much easier to navigate by introducing their newly launched TotalSecure SMB Bundles. These bundles are designed to corral all of the quintessential security products and services under a single price tag, meaning small business owners aren’t scrambling to match up compatible services and compare dozens of firewall models.

What’s in a SonicWall SMB Bundle?

The SonicWall SMB Bundles provide both the technology and services that small businesses need to lock down their network in one fell swoop. The foundation of the bundle is a next generation firewall from either the SonicWall TZ series or an SonicWall NSa 2650. The TZ 370, TZ 470, TZ 570, TZ 600, and all of their wireless counterparts make up the SonicWall TZ series, providing the cutting-edge of network security technology wrapped in one small package. These next gen firewalls are capable of utilizing SonicWall’s patented Re-Assembly Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI), allowing even small offices to scan the encrypted traffic that makes up over 60% of all Internet activity.

In addition to a next generation firewall, SonicWall SMB Bundles include two years of SonicWall’s Advanced Gateway Security Suite (AGSS), a 10-User License for SonicWall’s Capture Client Advanced, and access to the Capture Security Center for management and reporting. You can find a more detailed look at SonicWall’s Advanced Gateway Security Suite in our recent article about the service.

What’s Capture Client Advanced?

SonicWall Capture Client is an antivirus platform that includes a wide range of endpoint protection capabilities like real-time malware protection, sandboxing integration (pairs well with AGSS’s Capture ATP), and increased visibility into encrypted traffic. Capture Client is a behavior-based antivirus platform, meaning your security doesn’t rely on a distance database of security signatures and known threats. The SonicWall SMB Bundles expand your protection to shutting down malware cocktails and ransomware zero days that may not have even been invented yet! Capture Client Advances identifies suspicious files and automatically kicks them over to your Capture ATP sandbox to be analyzed, safely detonated, and banished from your network before they ever have a chance to do harm.

What’s Capture Security Center?

Capture Security Center is your new network security command center, bringing all of the moving parts and loose ends of your security posture and tying them into one easy-to-navigate dashboard. Bring governance and compliance together in a single screen, centralizing all of your security operations in an automation-friendly management & reporting powerhouse. This service is perfect for small businesses that may not have the specialized skills or staff necessary to manage large, complex infrastructure.

What’s In It For Me?

The SonicWall SMB Bundle sweeps down your checklist of security needs and marks every box along the way. Not only are small businesses getting solid perimeter firewall protection, but they’re granted SSL traffic inspection, intrusion prevention, content filtering capabilities, advanced sandboxing with Capture ATP, behavior-based scanning, visualized reporting, and more. And if a threat should ever slip past your defenses and do some damage, Capture ATP allows windows users to literally rollback and erase the damage left behind. That’s right, even a successful attack won’t have a lasting impact thanks to the rollback features included with the Capture suite.

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What Is FortiGuard? A Look at the Security Services Available for your FortiGate

By Andrew Harmon

Posted On October 31, 2018

What Is FortiGuard? A Look at the Security Services Available for your FortiGate

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There’s a reason why Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and the Fortinet Security Fabric solutions continue to earn praise after praise after praise from industry benchmarkers. With their UTM Solutions entering their 9^th consecutive year as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leaders, the minds at FortiGuard Labs certainly have secured their spot at the top of the industry. So what makes Fortinet FortiGuard security services excel?

The Fortinet Security Fabric

Fortinet’s FortiGuard security solutions were built to balance performance and protection across all of Fortinet’s security platforms. Whether you’re deploying a FortiGate, a FortiDDoS appliance, or a FortiWifi for wireless networking, you can access a comprehensive range of services that weave seamlessly together, forming the Fortinet Security Fabric. The Fortinet Security Fabric delivers protection and unparalleled visibility into every segment, device, and appliance operating on your network.

The individual tools found within the Fortinet Security Fabric automatically synchronize to enforce policies, coordinate responses, and provide intuitive management & reporting tools through a single console. This Security Fabric is broad, integrated, and automated. Below, you can view which services are available on your Fortinet products.

What Is Included in FortiGuard Bundles?

Firewalls.com offers two distinct tiers of Fortinet bundles for your FortiGate firewall: the UTM Protection Bundle and the more advanced Enterprise Protection Bundle. Each of the bundles includes a range of security services designed to tackle the most advanced Internet threats facing networks in 2018. This includes AntiVirus, AntiSpam, Advanced Malware Protection, Content Filtering, Sandboxing, AntiSpam, Email Security, Botnet Protection, & more. And with the highly-lauded FortiGuard Labs team constantly updating your services with machine learning & an ever-expanding database of malware signatures, you can rest assured that your security infrastructure is not only robust but modernized to the minute with regular, automated updates. Below you can view a diagram outlining how the latest protection against advanced threats is rolled out from FortiGuard Labs, to the cloud, and on to your FortiGate appliance.

Note: Firewalls.com also offers separate FortiCare Contracts for support, firmware updates, hardware return options, & technical resources.

Enterprise-Grade Protection with FortiGuard

The FortiGuard Enterprise Protection Bundle includes three additional services that the UTM Bundle lacks. Fortinet’s Security Rating, Industrial DB Signatures, and FortiCASB give the extra edge that large-scale enterprises and highly distributed networks need to fully secure their large and complex attack surfaces.

Security Rating DB – The FortiGuard Security Rating DB is intended to guide customers in designing and maintaining the optimal network security infrastructure for their organization’s unique needs. This series of audits analyzes your Fortinet Security Fabric deployment to identify vulnerabilities, bottlenecks, & potential blind spots. Similar to Firewalls.com’s Health Check Service!

Industrial Signature Database – The FortiGuard Industrial DB Signatures provides visibility and control to hundreds of industrial applications and allows the use of custom applications. Industrial DB supports most major Industrial Control System manufacturers and delivers real-time threat intelligence updates.

FortiCASB – Fortinet’s cloud-based Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) provides much needed visibility and threat protection into the SaaS and cloud-based applications that enterprises increasingly employ. FortiCASB lends the ability to enforce network policies with API-based access to cloud applications.

How To Buy a Fortinet FortiGate

Firewalls.com offers a variety of FortiGate products and service bundles including the FortiGuard UTM Protection Bundle and the FortiGuard Enterprise Protection Bundle. The best way to navigate your options, though, is to check out our 2021 Fortinet Buyer’s Guide!

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What’s All That Ruckus? Firewalls.com Teams Up with Ruckus Wireless!

By Andrew Harmon

Posted On October 3, 2018

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What’s All That Ruckus?!

Firewalls.com is announcing, loud and proud, the introduction of Ruckus Wireless products to our website, and to celebrate the big ruckus, we want to give you 30% OFF on ALL Ruckus Unleashed wireless access points. There’s never been a better time to build or expand a wireless network for your small business!

Who Is Ruckus Wireless?

Ruckus Wireless is an industry powerhouse offering indoor and outdoor wireless access points, network switches, and controllers to extend high-quality Wi-Fi at a budget-friendly price. When connectivity really matters, organizations turn to Ruckus and it’s no mystery why. Ruckus Access Points are up to any challenge, from high client density, signal-sapping building materials, complex outdoor deployments, and more. Filled to the brim with innovative patented technology like BeamFlex Adaptive Antennas, Ruckus is always thinking outside of the box when it comes to solving the wireless world’s toughest problems.

Check out our Ruckus Wireless Access Points and enterprise-class ICX Network Switches!

What is Ruckus Unleashed?

Ruckus Unleashed is a series of controller-less access points with super simplified management, making them the perfect fit for small businesses looking to deploy or expand a wireless network! Check out our more in-depth look at Ruckus Unleashed appliances to learn more.

Still Need Help Deciding?

Okay! To sweeten the deal, we’ll also map out your office’s wireless landscape to provide you with a reliable, predictive map of Wi-Fi signal coverage and performance using the ZonePlanner mapping tool–for FREE. The ZonePlanner mapping tool helps you predict dead zones, optimize placements, and more in order to ensure the maximum effectiveness of your wireless investment! ZoneFlex accounts for antenna patterns, building materials, obstructions, WAP configurations, and building layout to show you exactly how a Wi-Fi signal will behave in your office.

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This report is 100% unique to your needs, your location, and your products. That means you’re ONLY going to purchase the wireless devices you need—no more, no less. And remember, we’re going to give you 30% OFF any Ruckus Unleashed access points you choose!

This Ruckus Wireless sale is valid only when you speak with one of our Account Managers, so grab your phone and dial 317-225-4117 to get 30% off Ruckus Unleashed products, a FREE customized ZonePlanner report, & expert guidance from our firewall geniuses. Mention the promo code RUCKUS30OFF when you call!

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