Introduction

SonicWALL NSA 2400 security appliance can be used in most small to medium scale industries and branch offices. This security appliance consists of dual-core hardware, and many other security oriented features like intrusion prevention, SSL VPN, application control, content filtering, etc.

Who Should Buy?

SonicWALL NSA 2400 is best suited for:

• Small Scale Organizations – Organizations that have 15 to 20 computers and require secured internal network while allowing remote accessibility from external network using SSL VPN can use SonicWALL NSA 2400.
• Medium Scale Organizations – Organizations with more than 50 computers and multiple branches scattered around the city or the nation can use SonicWALL NSA 2400 to establish an uninterrupted network connectivity and secured remote accessibility with the help of stateful hardware failover and SSL VPN tunnels respectively.
• Branch Offices – Branch offices of medium or large scale organizations can also deploy SonicWALL NSA 2400 security appliance to maintain the security of their internal networks, while allowing secure virtual private network connections to and from their main offices at the same time.

What Purposes It Serves?

SonicWALL NSA 2400 can be helpful for the organizations that want to secure their networks and also want to categories and prioritize bandwidth intensive applications at the same time. With the help of bandwidth allocation feature, security administrators can allocate the minimum and maximum amount of bandwidth that a particular application can consume.

This security appliance is also helpful in establishing a network gateway between external and internal networks and providing uninterrupted connectivity when configured to participate in stateful hardware failover.

Top Benefits and Features

Some top benefits and features of SonicWALL NSA 2400 are:

• Unified Threat Management – SonicWALL NSA 2400 secures the entire internal network by implementing gateway anti-malware, content filtering, intrusion prevention, application control, etc.
• Application Intelligence – With the help of this feature, security administrators can throttle down or completely block any unwanted bandwidth intensive application. This feature also enables administrators to prioritize important applications and allow them to consume sufficient amount of bandwidth when required.
• Mobile Connectivity – By deploying Apple iOS or Android based Mobile Connect client app on their corresponding mobile devices, secured remote connections can be established to gain full network access from remote locations. In order to establish remote connections through secure channel, SSL VPN tunnels must be created.
• Increased Performance – Since SonicWALL NSA 2400 has dual-core hardware, the security appliance is capable of inspecting several simultaneous connections across the 6 GbE interfaces. The Deep Packet Inspection takes place at 150 Mbps.
• SSL Deep Packet Inspection – SonicWALL NSA 2400 is capable of decrypting an encrypted SSL packet, inspecting it and re-encrypting it after inspection in order to provide a secured network communication even in encrypted environments. Deep Packet Inspection inspects the packets at network and application layers, hence providing double security to the internal network from external threats.
• Application Traffic Monitoring – SonicWALL NSA 2400 monitors and analyses the entire application specific traffic which can be used to allocate desired amount of bandwidth to the important and productive applications. Bandwidth for the applications that prove to be unproductive or inappropriate can be entirely revoked or reduced to minimal to increase overall productivity of the organization.
• Secured Wireless – SonicWALL NSA 2400 can be used to extend a secured wireless network by connecting it to SonicPoints. This security appliance supports dual band wireless networks, i.e. 5 GHz (IEEE 802.11a) and 2.4 GHz (IEEE 802.11b/g/n), hence allowing wireless devices of almost all specifications to communicate with the internal secured network. The devices may include laptops, Tablet PCs or smartphones.
• Stateful Hardware Failover – SonicWALL NSA 2400 can also be configured to participate as an active or passive node while establishing stateful hardware failover environment. With the help of stateful hardware failover configuration, both remote and local users can experience completely uninterrupted network connectivity to the local or remote resources.
• Centrally Managed Policies – With the use of Global Management System (GMS), security administrators can create and apply security policies right from central locations. This saves their decent amount of time that they would otherwise have to spend while configuring and implementing the policies on each security appliance or node individually.
• Enforced Protection – SonicWALL NSA 2400 ensures that all connected notes have latest versions of McAfee or Kaspersky antivirus applications installed on them. This security appliance also ensures that the installed antivirus applications are updated with latest virus definitions before allowing the network devices to communicate with other local or remote nodes.

Technical Specifications