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Designed for small organizations and distributed enterprises with remote and branch offices, the SonicWall TZ600P and TZ300P integrate support for PoE and PoE+ devices. These Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewalls help reduce both the cost and complexity associated with PoE injectors and switches by providing power directly to connected PoE-enabled devices, such as wireless access points, POS terminals, printers, cameras and other IP devices.

Instead of two cables, there’s one. And you don’t need to place the device near an outlet, which helps when you’re designing your office or store layout. Plus, you don’t need to spend your budget on a PoE switch. Both firewalls support the IEEE 802.3af (PoE) and more powerful 802.3at (PoE+) standards, which newer devices require.

PoE/PoE+ support is just one of the many features included with TZ series firewalls. In addition, the TZ600P and TZ300P consolidate a host of essential security and networking features. For example, small organizations, including retail shops, can utilize high-speed 802.11ac wireless for internal and customer/guest connectivity while segmenting traffic for each group using virtual LANs.

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No matter your type of organization — large or small, public or private — cutting expenses is always a key initiative. After all, reducing your OpEx looks good on the books and enables the company to invest in other meaningful initiatives.

One cost every organization faces is internet connectivity. Access to the internet is essential for communications, website hosting, sharing files, serving up apps and a host of other activities. But it can be expensive, especially if your organization has multiple offices, branches or stores.

Today’s broadband users, whether employees or customers, define their experience by performance rather than availability. We don’t just expect to have access to apps and videos, we demand that they perform in real time. Any delay is met with complaints and a call for more bandwidth, which increases expenses.

How to Securely Connect, Network Remote Locations

When you have a distributed network with branch or remote locations, they need to be securely connected with each other and the corporate headquarters. This can be done using several techniques. One common method is multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). Using MPLS, organizations can create a private wide-area network (WAN) to securely send data between locations via the shortest path available without going through the public internet.

MPLS supports multiple connection types, including T1 and frame relay. The problem? These connections have to support an increasing number of connected devices and bandwidth-intensive applications that demand higher speeds, which means they’re expensive. That’s why many distributed organizations are moving to SD-WAN (software-defined wide-area network).

“For SD-WAN to be a viable alternative to private WANs, enterprises need to ensure they have the same level of inspection and enforcement at the branch and remote sites as they have at the data center,” said Mike Fratto, analyst at 451, in SonicWall’s official launch announcement. “Integrated security features with SD-WAN are table stakes for most enterprises adopting the technology.”

Reduce Costs with Secure SD-WAN

To help organizations reduce their costs while still receiving secure and consistent performance for business-critical applications, SonicWall offers Secure SD-WAN. A feature of SonicOS 6.5.3, the operating system for SonicWall TZ and NSa firewalls, Secure SD-WAN technology enables distributed organizations to build, operate and manage secure, high-performance networks using readily-available, low-cost public internet services, such as DSL, cable and 3G/4G.

An alternative to more expensive WAN connection technologies, including MPLS, Secure SD-WAN enables virtually any organization — retailers, banks, manufacturers and others — to connect sites spread over great distances for the purpose of sharing data, applications and services. Features such as intelligent failover and load balancing help ensure consistent performance and availability of critical business and SaaS applications.

And, unlike solutions from pure-play SD-WAN providers, Secure SD-WAN doesn’t require you to purchase additional hardware or licenses.

Secure SD-WAN: Safe, Fast & Reliable

Reducing expenses is always a priority for every organization. What else is? Here are some other key issues Secure SD-WAN helps distributed enterprises solve:

1. Protect your network from cyber criminals. Both encrypted and unencrypted traffic run through a SonicWall next-generation firewall to be scanned for threats, such as malware and ransomware, ensuring maximum threat detection and prevention. If you have a separate SD-WAN-only solution, you’ll need to make sure you also have a way to protect data from modern cyberattacks, such as encrypted threats and ransomware.
2. Achieve consistent, optimized application performance. Realize faster, more consistent performance for SaaS and business-critical applications, such as VoIP, video and unified communications, through capabilities such as deterministic application performance, which steers the apps over less-congested links to overcome jitter, latency, packet loss and other unfavorable network conditions.
3. Enhance agility. Using SonicWall Zero-Touch Deployment, bringing up new sites is greatly simplified. Provisioning hardware remotely removes the need to have onsite IT personnel perform the task. In addition, IT administrators can manage the entire network, including devices at SD-WAN-enabled branch/remote locations, through a single pane of glass using Capture Security Center, SonicWall’s cloud-based management and analytics platform.

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We are proud to announce that we have just been recognised as a SonicWall SecureFirst Platinum Partner. This is the highest level you can achieve and recognised by years of great service to our customers. We have consistantly offered best advice backed with technical knowledge and continue to help customers find the best solution.

We are backed by SonicWall UK and have been selling, installing, managing and maintaining SonicWall products for over 10 years. Call us if you need advice on any SonicWall product.

Some good things should never end.

One of the most successful promotions in company history, SonicWall’s ‘3 & Free’ incentive is now a permanent component of our Customer Loyalty program.

In an escalated cyber threat landscape, it’s more important than ever to ensure your organization’s networks, data and applications are protected against today’s most malicious cyberattacks, including the most recent Foreshadow processor exploits. In fact, in July 2018 alone, the average SonicWall customer faced:

• 2,164 malware attacks (28 percent increase from July 2017)
• 81 ransomware attacks (43 percent increase)
• 143 encrypted threats
• 13 phishing attacks each day
• 1,413 new malware variants discovered each day by SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) sandbox with Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection^TM

When you upgrade your SonicWall hardware you gain the latest in next-generation firewall (NGFW) technology and access to the SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service. It’s a cloud-based, multi-engine sandbox that stops both known and unknown cyberattacks from critically impacting your business.

What is the SonicWall ‘3 & Free’ Program?

Once a limited-time promotion, the SonicWall ‘3 & Free’ is now a mainstay offering to loyal SonicWall customers. It’s an easy, cost-effective way for customers to upgrade to the very latest SonicWall next-generation firewall appliance for free.

Eligible customers may receive a complimentary NGFW appliance by purchasing a bundle that includes a three-year subscription of the SonicWall Advanced Gateway Security Suite from their authorized SonicWall SecureFirst partner.

This security suite includes everything you need to stay protected against today’s modern attacks, including ransomware, encrypted threats, zero-day attacks and processor-based exploits. It offers:

• Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) sandbox
• Gateway Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware
• Intrusion Prevention Service
• Application Control
• Content Filtering Service
• 24×7 Support

SonicWall’s exclusive security subscription service also includes SonicWall Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI). A patent-pending technology, RTDMI™ enables Capture ATP to detect and block malware that does not exhibit any malicious behavior or hides weaponry via encryption. This protects your organization from zero-day attacks, malicious PDFs and Microsoft Office files, and even chip-based Spectre, Foreshadow and Meltdown exploits.

Upgrade Your SonicWall Firewall

Ready to upgrade? Take advantage of our ‘3 & Free’ program to get the latest in SonicWall next-generation firewall technology — for free. BEGIN UPGRADE

The SonicWall NSa 2650 is strongly positioned in the upper right quadrant of the NSS Labs SonicWall Security Value MapTM (SVM) for 2018.

The results of this public test mean that for six straight years, SonicWall has excelled in the industry's most comprehensive real-world testing of next-generation firewalls (NGFWs).

With the 2018 findings, NSS Labs verifies that SonicWall NGFWs:

• Demonstrated as one of the highest-rated and best-value NGFWs in the industry, with a Security Effectiveness score of 98.8% at a very low TCO of $4 per Protected Mbps

• Tested 100% effective in countering all advanced HTTP evasion, obfuscation and fragmentation techniques

• Earned 100% in stability and reliability testing

For further guidance on how to interpret the SonicWall SVM, please refer to the NSS Labs 2018 NGFW SVM Comparative Report.

What are the Key Takeaways from the Report?

1. 6th consecutive year a SonicWall NGFW has received the NSS Lab Rating ‘Recommended’

2. The NSa 2650:

a. achieved a Security Effectiveness score of 98.8%

b. tested 100% effective against all evasions

c. passed 100% of all stability & reliability tests

d. accomplished all of this with a TCO of $4/protected Mbps

3. In today’s challenging environment, where our customers are attacked thousands of times per day, it is imperative that a platform approach is adopted to deliver layers of security throughout the organization. This report confirms that SonicWall NGFWs are the product they can depend on to build out this layered defense strategy.

Next Generation Firewall Test Report

The new SonicWall Network Security Administrator (SNSA) course and certification exam is replacing the CSSA Certification with its Network Security Basic Administration (NSBA) course. For individuals who hold a current CSSA certification, SonicWall will continue to acknowledge this important certification for two years from the certification date. Students wishing to re-certify an expiring CSSA certification will, however, be required to complete the new SNSA course and certification. Learn More

SonicWall Live Demo – new additions
With the recent product launches we’ve made significant updates to the site:

• NSa 6650
• NSa 9650
• Upgrade to SonicOS 6.5.2 of all units
• We will also be adding Capture Security Center shortly

We have now got delivery of the latest NSa models - the 3650, 4650 & 5650.

SonicWall NSa 2650
SonicWall NSa 3650
SonicWall NSa 4650
SonicWall NSa 5650

New NSa models - 3650, 4650 & 5650 have been announced this week and will start arriving into stock by the end of April.

For more information please see the relevant product category.

NSa 3650

NSa 4650

NSa 5650

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!

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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!

Click here for details

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.