Dell SonicWALL has announced the technology preview of Cloud Global Management System (GMS) during the annual PEAK16 conference in Las Vegas.
The cloud-based security management and reporting solution removes financial, technical support and system maintenance hurdles associated with managing security. Delivered to partners as a unique, comprehensive, low cost monthly subscription based on the number of firewalls under management, SonicWALL Cloud GMS allows partners to deliver high calibre SonicWALL security to their customers.
Addressing the market’s rapid shift toward ‘Security as a Service,’ the SonicWALL Cloud GMS solution will allow managed service providers and resellers to help their customers achieve the highest level of security without the need to manage all security components in-house. Management features offered in Cloud GMS will provide a low risk and low barrier-to-entry for small and medium sized businesses, as well as large enterprises, eliminating the upfront cost and maintenance of a dedicated on-premise infrastructure.
Key technical functionality of the SonicWALL Cloud GMS solution includes:
- Governance: Establishes a cohesive approach to security management, reporting and analytics to simplify and unify network security defence programs through automated and correlated workflows to form a fully coordinated security governance, compliance and risk management strategy.
- Compliance: Rapidly responds and fulfils specific compliance regulations for regulatory bodies and auditors with automatic PCI, HIPAA and SOX reports, customised by any combination of auditable data.
- Risk Management: Provides ability to move fast and drive collaboration and communication across shared security framework, making quick security policy decisions based on time-critical and consolidated information for higher level security efficacy.
Supporting SonicWALL firewalls, wireless access points and Dell X-Series switches, SonicWALL Cloud GMS will drive down overall business risk for customers by unifying the defence programme and enhancing compliance and governance. Unlike competitive solutions, SonicWALL Cloud GMS manages all the settings of its firewall, wireless access point, and switches. It also includes over 60 comprehensive and fully customisable reports.
“The SonicWALL Cloud GMS solution will help our partners simplify management while improving network security,” said Patrick Sweeney, Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, Dell SonicWALL. “As the need for hosted security solutions continues to grow, the SonicWALL Cloud GMS will provide a new low cost threshold for small and medium businesses that have limited ability or desire to deploy in-house infrastructure and logistics and who are concerned about quickly and effectively securing data—where ever it may reside.”
