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    Aaron's

    Aaron's (NYSE: AAN) secures 1,800 store locations using E-Class NSA E6500 and E5500 pairs, GMS and the TZ Series, with application intelligence, control and visualization. With SonicWALL, Aaron's has achieved lower TCO, flexibility and higher service levels. Aaron's is the nation's leader in the sales and lease ownership and specialty retailing of residential and office furniture, consumer electronics, home appliances and accessories.

    10 Feb 2012 / PDF: 0.770 MB / CS-229
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    Mannheim School District 83

    Mannheim School District uses SonicWALL Scrutinizer to visualize and analyze application traffic flowing over its SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E6500 Next-Generation Firewall.

    10 Feb 2012 / PDF: 0.470 MB / CS-259
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    Schuylkill Intermediate Unit #29

    Schuylkill Intermediate Unit #29 is an educational service agency that coordinates services for Schuylkill County Schools on behalf of the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The organization replaced its Cisco® firewalls with SonicWALL® E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) Series Next-Generation Firewalls to regain control over network security, ease administration and future-proof its network for emerging technology trends.

    18 Jan 2012 / PDF: 0.530 MB / CS-257
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    Paylocity

    Paylocity deployed SonicWALL® E-Class NSA E8510 appliances to support its 10Gb connectivity needs and high throughput requirements. The payroll services and human resource software provider required a solution that could scale with its significant company growth and infrastructure expansion.

    15 Nov 2011 / PDF: 0.440 MB / CS-253
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    McHenry Savings Bank

    McHenry Savings Bank dramatically improved performance and reduced latency by deploying a SonicWALL® WAN Acceleration (WXA) solution in combination with SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewalls. McHenry Savings Bank (MSB) is a full service financial institution with a complete line of deposit and loan products serving the banking needs of the residents of McHenry County, Illinois since 1955.

    11 Nov 2011 / PDF: 0.420 MB / CS-252
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    MBH Settlement Group

    MBH replaced its previous tape-based backup system with a SonicWALL® Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solution to ensure data backup and disaster recovery. The deployment is complemented with SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E5500 Next-Generation Firewalls.

    8 Nov 2011 / PDF: 0.520 MB / CS-250

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    WAN Acceleration Appliance Series

    The SonicWALL® WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) Series reduces application latency and conserves bandwidth, significantly enhancing WAN application performance and user experience for remote and branch offices. After initial data transfer, the WXA Series dramatically reduces all subsequent traffic by transmitting only new or changed data across the network. The WXA de-duplicates data traversing the WAN, thus reducing application latency and conserving bandwidth. Other acceleration features include data caching, metadata caching and data-in-flight compression.

    28 Jan 2012 / PDF: 0.870 MB / DS-342
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    SonicWALL Product Lines

    Our vision is simple: we believe security solutions should be “smart” enough to adapt as organizations evolve and as threats evolve—dynamically and globally. We believe customers around the world should have the ability to control, manage and protect their global network easily and automatically. We believe our customers should be able to receive and share threat and defense data around the world so they can anticipate and stop attacks before they happen. We want our customers to be able to secure any user, any device, using any application from anywhere so they can collaborate securely across different networks. All this needs to be achieved with maximum ease of deployment and at the best economic value and in a compliant framework.

    13 Dec 2011 / PDF: 6.110 MB / DS-65
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    Mobile Connect

    The SonicWALL® Mobile Connect™ unified client app for iOS provides Apple iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users full network-level access to corporate, academic or other organizational resources over encrypted SSL VPN connections. Users can download and install the app easily via the App StoreSM, simplifying deployment. When deployed with a SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewall, it creates a Clean VPN™ to decrypt and decontaminate threats from iOS traffic over SSL VPN before it enters the network. SonicWALL Application Intelligence and Control enables IT to define and enforce how application and bandwidth assets are used. When connecting over WiFi inside the network and scanned by a SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewall, iOS devices adhere to organizational security, app control and content filtering policies. Ultimately, SonicWALL Mobile Connect makes security and control an enabler, rather than a barrier to business.

    1 Dec 2011 / PDF: 0.970 MB / DS-371
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    SonicWALL TZ Series

    By integrating gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, content filtering, anti-spam and application control, the SonicWALL® TZ Series of Unified Threat Management (UTM) Firewalls shatters these limitations by offering high performance multi-layered network protection. SonicWALL Application Intelligence and Control helps administrators control and manage both business and non-business related applications to enable network and user productivity. Utilizing SonicWALL's unique Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® (RFDPI) technology,* the TZ Series delivers in-depth protection at unparalleled performance. The TZ Series also provides IPSec and SSL VPN remote access, VoIP, and 802.11b/g/n wireless, and 3G wireless multi-WAN connectivity. Designed for the needs of small businesses, branch offices, distributed enterprise sites, retailers and managed service providers, the TZ Series supports the highest speeds available from modern ISPs while delivering full UTM protection. Each TZ appliance is available as a SonicWALL TotalSecure™ solution, conveniently bundling all hardware and services needed for comprehensive protection.

    30 Nov 2011 / PDF: 1.440 MB / DS-66
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    SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance Series

    The E-Class NSA Series is a key part of SonicWALL's portfolio of enterprise-class products and services for network security, email security and secure remote access. All E-Class solutions offer outstanding protection and performance, while delivering intelligence, elegant simplicity and unparalleled value. SonicWALL's E-Class delivers the high-performance protection required by enterprise-class networks in a solution that is engineered to drive the cost and complexity out of running a secure network.

    30 Nov 2011 / PDF: 1.870 MB / DS-73
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    SonicWALL E-Class Product Line

    Historically, organizations have had to settle for static point solutions that could not dynamically adapt to the continuously shifting threats or easily adjust to new technologies or business demands. These solutions also added complexity and expense. SonicWALL® E-Class represents a new generation of comprehensive solutions for Network Security, Secure Remote Access, Email Security, and Policy and Management. Engineered to deliver Dynamic Security for the Global Network, E-Class solutions are intelligent enough to adapt as organizations evolve and as threats evolve—dynamically and globally. Delivering elegant simplicity and broad scalability, E-Class solutions automatically anticipate and adapt to emerging threats, securing any user, device or application from anywhere, with maximum ease of deployment, and at the best economic value in a compliant framework.

    30 Nov 2011 / PDF: 3.480 MB / DS-75

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e-Books

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    Mobility, Security and the Enterprise

    Many technologies that enterprises adopt for their information systems often have roots in consumer applications.1 More employees are extending their workday and increasing office efficiency by leveraging the same technology they use to enhance their personal lives—in particular, smartphone and tablet devices. Many corporate end users do not allow IT to dictate which smartphone or tablet platform they can use. A growing number will use whatever application, device or technology they want, regardless of corporate IT policies.2 IT has effectively lost its ability to completely mandate the choice of smartphone or tablet access in a corporate setting. This ebook details the 10 best practices for controlling smartphone and tablet access to corporate networks.

    1 Feb 2012 / PDF: 4.490 MB / EB-238
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    Controlling Laptop and Smartphone Access to Corporate Networks

    With company-issued, IT-controlled laptops, IT has traditionally had the option to lock down the operating system to prevent the installation of potentially insecure or non-approved applications. This consumerization of IT (as well as the budgetary incentive of offsetting inventory costs) has led companies to establish “bring your own device” (BYOD) policies that enable employees to select their own personal mobile devices for use at work

    14 Dec 2011 / PDF: 2.990 MB / EB-236
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    10 Ways to Securely Optimize Your Network

    SonicWALL's advanced security platform uniquely consolidates core Next-Gen Firewall application intelligence, control and visualization, gateway protection and SSL inspection for enterprises along with WAN acceleration for distributed offices, elements that work seamlessly together to maximize security and control. The following e-book outlines 10 ways SonicWALL solutions can help optimize performance, enhance security, and increase employee productivity, without introducing latency.

    13 Oct 2011 / PDF: 3.570 MB / EB-46
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    Clean Wireless - Adding Security, Performance, Manageability and Value to Wireless Deployments

    Wireless LANs (WLANs) offer the flexibility to work from more locations, boosting productivity for employees, on-site partners, contractors, and guests. At retail and professional settings, such as cafés or clinic waiting rooms, WLANs enhance customer experience and satisfaction, increasing sales and loyalty. WLANs can also off set costs of deploying a wired infrastructure. WLANs can also be used to off set the cost of deploying a wired infrastructure.

    6 Apr 2011 / PDF: 1.430 MB / EB-5
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    Beyond the Tipping Point: 10 Best Practices for Controlling Smartphone Access to the Corporate Network

    Many technologies that enterprises adopt for their information systems often have roots in consumer applications. More employees are extending their workday and increasing efficiency by leveraging the same technology they use to enhance their personal lives—in particular, Web-enabled smartphone and smart-pad devices. Corporate end users do not allow IT to dictate what smartphone platform they can use. A growing number will use whatever application, device or technology they want, regardless of corporate IT policies. IT has effectively lost its ability to constrain the choice of smartphone access in a corporate setting.

    3 Mar 2011 / PDF: 3.560 MB / EB-44
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    11 Cool Things Your Firewall Should Do

    Traditional stateful packet inspection firewalls focus on blocking network layer threats by evaluating the ports and protocols used by network layer traffic. The latestNext-Generation Firewalls utilize deep packet inspection to scan the entire packet payload to provide advanced intrusion prevention, anti-malware, content filtering, and anti-spam. Many applications are delivered over the Web sharing common ports and HTTP or HTTPS protocols. This effectively leaves traditional firewalls blind to these applications and unable to prioritize productive and secure versus unproductive and potentially insecure traffic. Next-Generation Firewalls provide insight into the applications themselves, providing a critical capability for networking professionals.

    23 Dec 2010 / PDF: 1.770 MB / EB-1

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Business Solutions

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    Helping Schools Secure Their Networks While Saving Their Budgets

    The challenges facing grade school educators are greater than ever before. The standards for academic achievement and the expectations of students' families continue to climb. At the same time, education budgets are tighter. Schools' technology infrastructures are caught in the middle, requiring K-12 IT administrators to literally do more with less. Networked resources have addressed some qualitative issues. Online instruction materials and classroom management services supplement teachers' capabilities and free them from administrative chores. In addition, self-service portals and email communications increase the efficiency and effectiveness of administrative staff. This reliance on the Internet brings new challenges. As the user population grows to include on- and off-campus students, faculty, administrators, contractors and parents, so do the threats to the network's security. This is further compounded by the ever-changing threat landscape. What K-12 IT administrators need is a network and information security solution that is effective, high-performing, flexible, and easy to manage. These are the types of solutions that only SonicWALL® delivers.

    3 Feb 2012 / PDF: 0.860 MB / SB-29
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    Secure Network Optimization Solution Brief

    The SonicWALL® Secure Network Optimization solution tightly integrates SonicWALL Next-Generation Firewall Application Intelligence andControl, and Deep Packet Inspection scanning, Application Traffic Analytics, along with the WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) Series, enablingorganizations to:1. Identify network inefficiencies through real-time traffic visualization and applicaiton traffic analytics2. Reduce the amount of data sent between corporate and remote/branch offices3. Easily block undesirable applications on the network4. Bandwidth manage applications to accelerate business critical applications5. Increase security through DPI scanning of all traffic, ensuring all data is secure before it is accelerated over the WAN6. Consolidate management of application Intelligence and control, DPI Scanning, application traffic analytics, WAN acceleration and VPN from a single interface

    5 Oct 2011 / PDF: 0.110 MB / SB-79
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    Business Insight - Enabling Protection, Control and Performance with Secure Network Optimization

    The Distributed Office Scenario: A number of critical issues and ongoing developments are driving both a need for better network security and for network optimization between office locations.

    13 Sep 2011 / PDF: 0.580 MB / SB-86
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    Security, Manageability and Scalability for the Distributed Network

    In recent years, the distributed enterprise has changed dramatically. The traditional model consisted of a central brick-and-mortar headquarters and multiple brick-and-mortar branch locations. While this hub and-spoke model is still appropriate in certain cases, it no longer reflects the breadth of global business and network opportunities available. Today's modern distributed enterprise is everywhere.

    21 Jun 2011 / PDF: 1.570 MB / SB-82
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    The Importance of Application Intelligence and Control in Virtual Environments

    SonicWALL® Next-Generation Firewalls with Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization plays a pivotal role in application efficiency, bandwidth utilization and Internet security in virtualized cloud environments

    20 May 2011 / PDF: 0.060 MB / SB-80
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    Leverage the Cloud with Confidence Using Next-Generation Firewalls

    What IT organizations need is a single solution that can effectively address both problems, by controlling all application traffic and mitigating all corresponding threats. Fortunately, Next-Generation Firewalls with application intelligence, control and visualization capabilities, such as the SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) Series, can leverage the benefits of the cloud securely and with confidence. Next-Generation Firewalls allow IT organizations to identify and enforce policy-based controls on both cloud-based and on-premise applications in use, and securely identify users regardless of port or protocol. These solutions can help manage bandwidth for cloud applications and users, as well as eliminate the malware and productivity threats that come along with cloud consumption.

    20 May 2011 / PDF: 0.060 MB / SB-81

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White Papers

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    IDC Vendor Spotlight - A Perfect Security Storm Challenges Higher Education

    The network security needs of higher education institutions are ever-changing and vendors that want to remain successful must adapt. Organizations are demanding great flexibility in the solutions they purchase. Acquiring an additional box for every new threat that is identified is no longer an option. Companies want to know that their investment will be protected and will scale as they grow. Increasingly integrated solutions and virtual security appliances are being considered to address these needs.

    27 Jan 2012 / PDF: 0.710 MB / WP-101
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    Mobility, Security and the Enterprise: The Equation to Solve

    Smartphones and tablets are everywhere today-equally found in the hands of consumers or the enterprise community. But for all their apparent user-friendliness, these mobile devices can represent a significant threat to corporate data. IT departments need to think long and hard before deciding on the right smartphone platform for their business needs.

    29 Nov 2011 / PDF: 0.140 MB / WP-93
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    Twelve Ways Applications and Users Are Draining Your Bandwidth and How to Fix It

    Network managers and business owners struggle with the ever-growing demands for more bandwidth on their networks. They typically buy more bandwidth to try to catch up to demand, but the cost, even with declining pricing for Internet connections in some areas, can soon become a money pit. They are looking for better solutions because of cost or limitations in infrastructure. Isn't there a better way to obtain fast and secure data transmissions across a business's multiple locations?

    11 Oct 2011 / PDF: 0.190 MB / WP-95
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    Next-Generation Firewall Market Analysis: The SonicWALL Difference

    The Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) is rapidly becoming an essential element of the modern organization's information security strategy. Not only does it restore control over network activity and provide protection against dynamic threats, it also does so while reducing the cost and complexity of network security infrastructure. However, no two solutions are created equal, and organizations, therefore, must take care when selecting a NGFW product to meet their needs.

    30 Mar 2011 / PDF: 0.070 MB / WP-90
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    AimPoint Group: Application Control Defined – The Top 7 Capabilities Required to Restore Firewall Effectiveness

    Among its many benefits, application control promises to restore firewall effectiveness by enabling IT to implement and enforce granular policies governing application access while helping prevent application-layer threats and unwanted exposure of sensitive data. Realizing this promise, however, is by no means guaranteed. The approaches being taken by both incumbent and emerging firewall vendors are many and varied, and so too are the results. Accordingly, this paper provides detailed explanations for the top criteria and capabilities that must be fulfilled to ensure enterprise expectations and objectives are fully met with regard to this crucial facet of next-generation firewalls.

    20 Oct 2010 / PDF: 0.140 MB / WP-2
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    Unchain Your Network with Application Intelligence and Control

    This paper discusses the new risks facing organizations in light of the prevalence of Web-based applications and offers best practices for gaining control of applications, data and bandwidth. It also introduces SonicWALL® Application Intelligence and Control solutions, designed to help organizations of all sizes address the unique issues posed by Web 2.0, including employee use of unauthorized Web-based applications, streaming media, peer-to-peer applications (P2P) and protecting data sent in attachments and via email.

    23 Aug 2010 / PDF: 0.160 MB / WP-6

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Interactive Demos & Guided Tours

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Live Webinars

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    The Top 10 Trends Driving IT Security in 2012

    Information networks are staged for tectonic changes in 2012. Users’ endpoint devices are proliferating across a range of platforms and OSs. Network resources are being virtualized. And the threats to systems and data are becoming more sophisticated and pervasive. Find out what all this means for IT security technologies and techniques.

    1 Feb 2012 / LW-126
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    Enabling Security and Bandwidth Optimization on Higher Education Networks

    The emergence of IT trends such as Web 2.0 and mobility present a challenging balancing act for colleges and universities across the nation. While social media and “Anytime, Anywhere Learning” clearly enrich the learning experience, these developments present IT administrators with an ever-growing list of educational and administrative demands on their network. New bandwidth–hungry Web 2.0 applications and social media sites are overwhelming networks and first-generation firewalls are failing to stop the invasion of application-based threats. Clearly, higher ed IT administrators need to find a better way to manage bandwidth and security on the new application-centric network. Join this webinar to learn from leading security experts on how to use next-generation firewalls to provide content filtering, bandwidth management and prioritization of application traffic for VoIP, video conferencing and social media resources.

    12 Oct 2011 / LW-42

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On-Demand Webinars

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    Merry Phishmas 2011

    Join product line manager Swarup Selvaraman from SonicWALL as he reviews the most interesting phishing attacks from 2011. Learn how creative techniques are used to gain illicit access to your personal and confidential information and find out why the holiday season is a particularly busy time for attackers. Educate yourself on ways to protect your organization by attending this informational webinar.

    22 Dec 2011 / ODW-125
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    Reducing Application Latency and Over-Burdened WANs with WAN Acceleration

    The emergence of collaboration applications such as Microsoft SharePoint and Windows File Share present a challenging balancing act for enterprises today. These applications not only overburden available WAN bandwidth by transmitting an increasing number of files and data sets over WANs, but essentially increase WAN traffic. IT often responds by expending budget on more bandwidth or enhanced services. Join this webinar to learn from leading security experts how to use WAN Acceleration to prioritize and minimize application traffic between remote and branch offices, and in turn optimize your network performance.

    20 Dec 2011 / ODW-123
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    How to Enable BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) at Work

    Join SonicWALL's Patrick Sweeney, VP of Product Management, as he offers up practical advice on how to enable mobility in your workforce. People are increasingly demanding the ability to use their personal communications devices to access email and network resources when they are away from the office. Come learn how to embrace this trend to allow people to use iPhones, iPads, Android phones and more not only at home but also at work.

    9 Dec 2011 / ODW-124
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    Exploring the Digital Underworld: Botnets, Zero Day Threats and Phishing

    Organized crime has shifted to the digital underworld. As a result a host of new techniques have appeared – designed to steel data, money and wreak havoc. Millions of businesses worldwide are currently exposed to these new and sophisticate threats. In this session we will take a look at some of the most dangerous – Botnets, Zero Day Threats and Phishing. We look at the anatomy of these threats, give real-world examples of how they are being used and give you tips on how best to defend yourself.

    7 Dec 2011 / ODW-122
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    Next-Generation Firewall and Content Filtering for K-12: An Analysis of Vendors

    IT security professionals at K-12 schools face a growing list of educational and administrative demands on their network. Legacy firewall and web filtering products have failed to keep pace with requirements stemming from new learning initiatives – such as the 21st century classroom and anytime/anywhere learning. This paper discusses how Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) address the network security, bandwidth management, and content filtering challenges currently facing today’s K-12 organizations. NGFWs deliver a comprehensive and highly granular solution for network security, bandwidth optimization, application visibility, and content control that reduces the cost and complexity of running educational networks. This paper provides a hard-hitting competitive analysis of leading NGFWs and Content Filtering solutions from the following vendors: Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper, Lightspeed, SonicWALL and Websense.

    16 Nov 2011 / ODW-120
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    Next-Generation Firewall Deployments: Lessons from the Front Lines

    Many organizations are now migrating to Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) solutions to improve security, consolidate functionality and ensure compliance. In this session we will examine the cyber security challenges faced by real world companies and how they used Next-Generation Firewall solutions to solve them. You will also hear live from The Spence Group Services, a distributed enterprise with 56 retail outlets - about how they used a Next-Generation Firewall solution to simplify and improve security while getting PCI Compliant.

    9 Nov 2011 / ODW-121

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