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Latest blogs and updates from SonicWall-Sales.com
New NSa 3650, 4650 & 5650 models announced
SonicWall 3 & Free Promotion is extended through April 30, 2018.
New upgrade promotion
Take advantage of the '3 & Free' Promotion through to April 30, 2018. Upgrade your Gen 5 SonicWall by buying 3 years of SonicWall Advanced Gateway Security Suite (including Capture ATP) and you will get the SonicWall hardware for Free!
Buy 3 Years AGSS and get the firewall hardware free!
New upgrade promotion
Take advantage of the '3 & Free' Promotion through to April 30, 2018. Upgrade your Gen 5 SonicWall by buying 3 years of SonicWall Advanced Gateway Security Suite (including Capture ATP) and you will get the SonicWall hardware for Free!
Christmas 2017 opening times and product availability.
Although our office is open between Christmas & New Year, the warehouse is not. Therefore, the last date of despatch this year will be Friday 22nd - around lunchtime.
Office Closed: December 25th/26th & January 1st
Warehouse Closed: December 25th/26th/27th/28th/29th & January 1st.
We should still be able to process subscriptions and renewals though, please ask.
FastVue: The Best SonicWall Configuration for Detailed Logging and Reporting
FastVue Reporting for SonicWall
Since releasing Fastvue Reporter for SonicWall in 2016 and seeing it deployed in hundreds of organizations around the globe, we have become very familiar with the effects that various SonicWall configurations and SonicOS firmware versions have on the firewalls logging and reporting.
As a result, we've documented our main SonicWall configuration recommendations to get the best visibility into user web activity and how your network is operating.
WPA2 KRACK Exploit: A SonicWall Alert
Exert from here: https://www.sonicwall.com/en-us/support/product-no...
On October 16, 2017 security researchers made public earlier findings in which they demonstrated fundamental design flaws in WPA2 that could theoretically lead to man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks using key reinstallation attacks (KRACKs). Exploiting the vulnerability could enable cyber criminals to steal confidential information such as email, credit card numbers, passwords and more.
The WPA2 design flaws
are protocol vulnerabilities and are not implementation specific. Both
wireless access points and wireless clients are susceptible. Details of
the vulnerabilities are available on the researchers’ website at
www.krackattacks.com.
Impact to SonicWall customers
SonicWall Capture Labs has evaluated these vulnerabilities and determined that our SonicPoint and SonicWave wireless access points, as well as our TZ and SOHO Wireless firewalls, are not vulnerable to the flaws in WPA2.
SonicWall is working on a solution to provide an additional layer of protection for SonicWall customers that will block these man-in-the-middle attacks even from vulnerable unpatched clients. This will be delivered in a future SonicOS update.
Recommended Action
In order to minimize the potential impact of these vulnerabilities, SonicWall recommends customers take the following actions:
- Patch all Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and Mac OS clients with the latest KRACK updates from client vendors.
- For
additional security, customers can use SonicWall VPN technology to
encrypt all network traffic between their wireless clients and the
SonicWall firewall.
- For SSL encryption on mobile devices, use the SonicWall Mobile Connect client, available from the Apple App Store, Google Play, the Windows Phone Store or the Chrome Web Store https://cdn.sonicwall.com/sonicwall.com/media/pdfs/products/product-vpn-clients-mobile-connect.pdf.
- For IPSec encryption, use the SonicWall Global VPN Client https://www.sonicwall.com/en-us/support/knowledge-base/170505725970885.
SonicWall NSA 2650 now in stock
The first batch of NSA 2650's have arrived and in stock...
https://www.sonicwall-sales.com/firewalls/sonicwall-nsa-2650-series.html
Five key announcements from SonicWall
- New SonicOS 6.5 includes more than 50 new features and is the biggest customer-driven SonicOS release in company history
- New NSA 2650 firewall enables threat prevention over 2.5 gigabit Ethernet wired and 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless networks, supports twice the number of DPI connections and offers 12,000 DPI SSL connections, an increase of 12X
- New SonicWave 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless access points for high-performance speed, security and reliability
- New SonicWall Cloud Analytics to make better, faster and smarter security decisions
- New Secure Mobile Access OS 12.1 ensures remote workers are protected with the same level of security from any location
GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation
Explanation of the diffrerence between CGSS and AGSS
We've created a page to explain the differences between the Advanced Gateway Security Suite (AGSS) and the Comprehensive Gateway Security Suite (CGSS), and also what you can expect from the different hardware/software bundles.
SonicWall Best Practices to protect against Ransomware
Another best practices guide, this time specifically for any Ransomware: https://support.sonicwall.com/kb/229932
SSL VPN NetExtender issues in some Windows 10 clients
We've had some reports of customers having issues with the NetExtender client on some versions of Windows 10. A new version of SonicWall Mobile Access Client (client been renamed) has been made available from Microsoft via their App Store for those running Windows 10 v10240.0 and higher:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/store/p/sonicwall-mobile-connect/9wzdncrdsfkz?rtc=1
This new version adds updated support to the built-in VPN connectivity within Microsoft Windows.
