Community Church receive SonicWall’s Clean VPN to Secure its Appliances
Written by man on November 3rd, 2009 in Other.
SonicWALL Internet security , a leading secure network infrastructure company, has announced Northwoods Community Church (Northwoods) a member of the Fellowship of Evangelical Churches serving a congregation of 3,900 churchgoers in Peoria, Illinois, has deployed a SonicWALL Clean VPN by combining a SonicWALL SSL-VPN 2000 secure remote access appliance with a SonicWALL® E-Class NSA E5500 network security appliance.
Northwood’s IT Director Jason Lee explained the need for secure network as the church has several staff who frequenty travel and need constant access to data from their servers. “Even though they are trusted connections, we want to be sure we still have a line of protection at our perimeter. Providing clean and secure remote access to our networks offers a huge value to us.”
Northwoods’ E5500 firewall scans both inbound and outbound SSL VPN traffic using Gateway Antivirus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention services.
As a nonprofit organization, Northwoods is especially sensitive to value.
“We have limited resources, but our expectations are no different than a Fortune 500 company, and that’s to utilize the best technology we can afford to help our team succeed,” said Lee. “SonicWall Internet security has given use sound protection against any forms of attacks. The same technology that would be very costly if we hire Cisco or Juniper.”
By selecting SonicWALL Internet security’s E-Class, Lee freed up budget for other initiatives. And using Unified Threat Management instead of separate services and servers from different vendors has lowered his costs, and eased budgeting and planning.
Lee said the Church is also planning to expand SonicWall’s Clean Wireless implementation.
“We currently have 13 SonicPoints deployed to cover high-traffic areas of our campus,” said Lee. “We apply Gateway Antivirus, Anti-Spyware and Intrusion Prevention services, as well as Content Filtering, to all inbound and outbound traffic on our wireless network.”
The SonicWALL Internet security E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E5500 is a high-performance, multi-service network security platform engineered to be the workhorse of the enterprise network environment. Taking advantage of SonicWALL’s Reassembly-free Deep Packet Inspection™ engine and an 8-core processor technology providing parallel traffic processing, the NSA E5500 delivers exceptional deep packet inspection performance for the enterprise network environment.
SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses of all sizes by engineering the cost and complexity out of running a secure network. SonicWall’s appliances have been shipped across the world in millions to provide tens of millions of computer users security and assurance that their system is free from any attacks. The company offers a wide variety of sought-after business solutions ranging from network security, secure remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and management technology.
