Your firewall is nothing without a live and updating subscription.  Viruses, Malware and network threats, change almost hourly.  Purchasing a security subscription means that your firewall will always be receiving the latest threat signatures, virus protection updates and filter block lists.

The best bit is that an active security subscription also gives you free firmware updates, technical support from SonicWall and hardware warranty for the duration of the subscription.

Never view a security subscription like the warranty for a car.   It is not there just in case something goes wrong, it is actually needed to make sure nothing goes wrong.  You are only truly being protected if your firewall is auto updating and has an active subscription.

Telephone and email support, when you need it most, along with hardware replacement warranty.

Keep your SonicWall patched and up to date with regular firmware updates.

A VPN enables secure, encrypted connections between networks and devices at geographically separated locations.  Each SonicWall has a limitation on the number of Site to Site VPNs it supports and also comes pre-loaded with a number of end user VPN Licenses - License upgrades are sold separately.

Cutting-edge IPS technology protects against worms, trojans, software vulnerabilities and other intrusions by scanning all network traffic for malicious or anomalous patterns, thereby increasing network reliability and performance.

Application intelligence and control is a set of granular, application-specific policies providing application classification and policy enforcement to help administrators control and manage both business and non-business related applications.

Content Filtering Services (CFS) lets you enforce Internet use policies and control internal access to inappropriate, unproductive and potentially illegal web content with comprehensive content filtering. Website ratings cached locally on SonicWall firewalls make response time to frequently visited sites virtually instantaneous. Dynamically updated rating architecture cross-references all requested websites against a database in the cloud containing millions of URLs, IP addresses and domains and then compares each rating to the local policy setting. 

DNS Security provides better TTD(Time to Detect) and improving TCO(Total cost of ownership). DNS security inspects DNS fields to identify malicious domains and thus block connection at very early stage of connection establishment. SonicWall has petabytes of threat data that helps classify domain as malicious, reducing

false positives

ICSA-certified gateway anti-virus and anti-spyware protection combines

network-based anti-malware with a dynamically updated cloud database of

tens of millions of malware signatures. This adds deep security protection

against advanced modern threats continuously in real time. Dynamic spyware protection blocks the installation of malicious spyware and disrupts existing spyware communications. 

Identifies and controls network traffic going to or coming from specific countries to either protect against attacks from known or suspected origins of threat activity, or to investigate suspicious traffic originating from the network. Ability to create custom country and Botnet lists to override an incorrect country or Botnet tag associated with an IP address. Eliminates unwanted filtering of IP addresses due to misclassification.

Identifies and blocks command and control traffic originating from bots on the local network to IPs and domains that are identified as propagating malware or are known CnC points. 

CASS offers Small- to medium sized businesses comprehensive protection from spam and viruses, with instant deployment over existing SonicWall firewalls. CASS speeds deployment, eases administration and reduces overhead by consolidating solutions, providing one-click anti-spam services, with advanced configuration in just ten minutes.

Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Service revolutionizes advanced

threat detection and sandboxing with a cloud-based, multi-engine solution for stopping unknown and zero-day attacks at the gateway.

SonicWall Risk Meters is a personalized threat information and risk scoring service that reveals gaps in defensive layers, fosters decisive security planning and facilitates actions needed for an optimal cyber defense.

SonicWall Network Security Manager (NSM) allows you to centrally orchestrate all firewall operations error-free, see and manage threats and risks across your firewall ecosystem from one place, and stay connected and compliant. 

Increase your network visibility by retaining 7 days of analytic data, allowing you to review and report on network incidents, issues and usage.