Overview

SonicWALL TZ 205 is a small scale industry class network security appliance that belongs to SonicWALL TZ category. Wireless model of SonicWALL TZ 205 provides security to wireless devices such as laptops, Tablet PCs and smartphones. SonicWALL TZ 205 has integrated Unified Thread Management (UMT) that includes anti-malware, Deep Packet Inspection, intrusion detection and prevention. This security appliance is customizable and other paid services and accessories can be added by paying a few extra dollars.

Who Should Buy?

Since the security appliance is quite handy, cost wise reasonable, but a powerful product, SonicWALL TZ 205 is best to be used in:

• Small Business Organizations – Organizations that have 15 to 20 PCs and want to secure their networks.
• Government Offices – Government bodies that want to protect their networks from external threats.
• Branch Offices/Remote Offices – Offices that want to enable remote accessing using SSL VPN tunnels can also use SonicWALL TZ 205.

What Purposes It Serves?

SonicWALL TZ 205 works as a network gateway that connects external and internal networks while detecting and preventing the internal network from intrusions at the same time. It also prevents malwares and viruses from entering into the network. Since SonicWALL TZ 205 01-SSC-6947 is a wireless appliance, it is also helpful in protecting wireless and portable devices like laptops, Tablet PCs and smartphones from intrusions, malwares, viruses, etc.

SonicWALL TZ 205 also ensures that any node connected to the network has latest version of McAfee or Kaspersky anti-virus application installed in it, and the program has been updated with latest virus definitions. Moreover, WAN failover can also be configured in the appliance in order to provide maximum network uptime to the end-users.

Because of its reasonable price, the appliance can be used to serve almost all security related purposes in a small scale organization.

Top Features and Benefits

Some of the best features and benefits of SonicWALL TZ 205 are:

• Integrated Intrusion Detection and Prevention – The integrated intrusion detection and prevention system prevents the network from intrusions attempts at application layer. Since SonicWALL TZ 205 works as a network gateway as well, all unauthorized network access attempts are detected and denied at the gateway itself.
• Gateway Anti-virus and Anti-spyware – Apart from intrusion detection and prevention, SonicWALL TZ 205 also protects the network from viruses and spywares by blocking their entries right at the gateway.
• Content/URL Filtering – With SonicWALL TZ 205, security administrators can filter the types of contents and URLs that are allowed to enter the network. This prevents users from downloading unwanted and potentially unsafe files/scripts and opening inappropriate websites while at work.
• Secured VPN – SonicWALL TZ 205 allows administrators to configure and establish both site-to-site and client/server IPSec and SSL VPN sessions in order to make network resources and information available from any remote location through secured channel.
• Wireless Flexibilities – SonicWALL TZ 205 01-SSC-6947 supports both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz spectrums. This enables users with almost any type of wireless device to gain access and communicate with other wireless nodes in a secured network. In other words, this security appliance supports IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless networks.
• Mobile Connectivity – Mobile Connect is a client app specifically developed from Apple iOS and Android devices. Mobile Connect allows mobile users to gain access to network resources by establishing encrypted SSL VPN sessions to the SonicWALL TZ 205 appliance.
• Simplified Management – SonicWALL TZ 205 provides easy-to-use web-based GUI management interface that eliminates the requirement of typing lengthy commands to configure the appliance. Moreover, the appliance also simplifies several configurations with the help of setup wizards.

Technical Specifications