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The new AI: There’s nothing artificial about Application Intelligence.

Web-based applications offer significant benefits for today’s business. They are at the heart of innovative Web 2.0, cloud computing and mobility initiatives that can increase productivity, enhance collaboration, streamline operations and reduce costs. Yet—despite repeated warnings in news headlines—many organizations are still blind to the increased risks that come with these benefits: 

• Cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications are under continuous, persistent criminal attack from sophisticated profit-driven and politically motivated hackers
• Interactive Web 2.0, social networking and streaming media applications can rob organizations of bandwidth, productivity, and confidential data, putting them at risk of regulatory noncompliance
• With WiFi-enabled laptops, and 3G/4G cellular smartphones becoming ubiquitous, they expand business reliance on Web-based applications, but they can also introduce new security risks
• Worse still, by using non-standard ports and encryption, Web application traffic can evade detection and control by traditional firewalls.

Combining this with an already existing breed of advanced persistent threats along with attacks that increasingly target specific companies, the threat matrix continues to expand exponentially. How can you maximize the business value of Web applications, while minimizing the risk? Now you can—with SonicWALL® Application Intelligence.

SonicWALL Application Intelligence.

SonicWALL’s vision is simple: we believe security solutions should be intelligent enough to adapt as organizations evolve and as threats evolve -- dynamically, globally. SonicWALL believes customers around the world should have the ability to control, manage and protect their global network easily and automatically. And, customers should be able to receive and share threat and defense data around the world so they can proactively anticipate attacks and stop them before they happen. SonicWALL wants customers to be able to secure any user, any device, using any application from anywhere so they can collaborate securely across different networks. Moreover, they should be able to achieve all this with maximum ease of deployment and economic value and within a compliant framework.

SonicWALL continues to deliver on this vision with Application Intelligence which enables SonicWALL network security appliances to not only block traditional network-layer threats, but also extend protection, management, and control over application-layer traffic. Unlike application-control only appliances, SonicWALL seamlessly integrates Application Intelligence with Intrusion Prevention and industry-leading firewall defenses, forming a unified and comprehensive network security solution that is also easy to deploy and manage.

Continuously leveraging and updating over 2,700+ unique application signatures, SonicWALL Application Intelligence can identify and control application traffic regardless or port, protocol, device platform or encryption, delivering comprehensive:

Application visualization and control.

Enable policy-based blocking or restriction of specific applications, such as bandwidth-intensive streaming audio, video and peer-to-peer programs; restricted application file types (e.g., EXE, PIF, SRC, VBS); or unauthorized Web 2.0 sites, browsers or instant messaging clients.

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Application visualization and control.

With SonicWALL Application Intelligence, administrators can define custom access controls based upon user, application, schedule or IP subnet level. As a result, administrators can:

• Manage the full range of applications available for access.
• Define policy that allows traffic for a preferred browser, while automatically blocking traffic from unwanted browsers.
• Efficiently block or limit applications through bandwidth and time-based restrictions.
• Ensure control over difficult-to-track and dynamically evolving P2P applications, such as BitTorrent.

Application threat protection.

Ensure performance under attack from continuous, persistent application-targeted threats that particularly target cloud-based applications.

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Application threat protection.

Leveraging the high-performance SonicWALL Reassembly-free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI) engine, SonicWALL Application Intelligence offers unmanaged comprehensive application protection, including:

• Forbidden extension lists to block dangerous .EXE or other executable files that can enter the network over Web applications.
• Protect SSL encrypted traffic to and from remote and mobile endpoints, enabling enhanced compliance, content filtering and data leak prevention, and eliminating another vector for malware.
• Automated updates and notifications, which ease administration, ensure signatures are always up-to-date, issue alerts of potential policy violations, and notify end users of standard policy upon blockage or restriction.

Application data leakage protection.

Block and control unauthorized outbound transmission of sensitive, proprietary or watermarked data via FTP uploads, or as attachments to personal Web mail services such as Hotmail® or Gmail®, as well as corporate SMTP and POP3 email.

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Application data leakage protection.

Existing anti-spam solutions may fail to prevent data leakage when an employee or contractor sends information using a Web-mail or FTP site. By creating a SonicWALL Application Intelligence and Control policy, an administrator can:

• Detect and block any outbound e-mail that contains sensitive or confidential information, even from remote or mobile devices.
• Create an Application Intelligence and Control policy to block e-mail attachments carrying a watermark indicating sensitive information.
• Limit FTP upload privileges to trusted parties, such as the project manager in a partner's company. Certain Application Intelligence feature sets enable administrators to create policies allowing FTP uploads by only authenticated users.

Application bandwidth management.

Ensure Quality of Service (QoS) by allocating dedicated throughput levels for designated mission-critical applications, user groups, or time of day.

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Application bandwidth management.

With SonicWALL Application Intelligence, administrators can establish and enforce bandwidth policy that can:

• Detect, block or limit the bandwidth available to streaming video and audio sites and files, such as YouTube.
• Specify that select groups, such as executives, have unfettered access to bandwidth for particular applications (e.g., streaming video), while others have more limited access.
• Prioritize bandwidth for mission-critical applications (e.g., Salesforce.com®, SharePoint®, and those from SAP®) that are either cloud-based or run over geographically distributed networks.
• Control network applications usage on IT-managed and non-managed mobile devices.

SonicWALL Application Intelligence Solutions.