Inoculate Your Business From Disruption and Disasters. Keeping staff and resources productive in times of crisis, when your business needs them most

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1 Inoculate Your Business From Disruption and Disasters Keeping staff and resources productive in times of crisis, when your business needs them most

2 Table of Contents Business Disruptions Can Happen Anytime 1 Can You Afford to Put Your Business on Sick Leave? 2 Run Your Business Anywhere 3 The Painful Truth About Backups 4 Business Continuity Depends on Network Continuity 5 Inoculate your Business from Disruption and 6 Disasters with SonicWALL The SonicWALL Solution: Preparedness for the 7 Small- and Medium-Sized Business SonicWALL Clean VPN 8 SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection 9 for Backup and Recovery SonicWALL 3G Wireless Networking 10

3 Business Disruptions Can Happen Anytime Today, external threats like swine flu (H1N1) outbreaks, weather events like severe winter storms, or extreme natural disasters like earthquakes threaten every business with potential disruption or disaster. Swine flu is by no means the only threat. While pandemics, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis make the headlines, disruptions and disasters can also be triggered by something as simple as a winter storm, power outage, bad traffic due to the closure of main arteries, hardware failure or any other event that keeps your workers from getting to the office or accessing vital business resources. 1

4 Can You Afford to Put Your Business on Sick Leave? There is a new type of virus to worry about not a computer virus, but the real-world H1N1 or swine flu virus. With the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) anticipating up to 40% absentee rates, expect that many of your employees may stay home, either sick themselves or attending to a sick family member. During this global economic recovery, no business can afford to lose productivity. Disruptions to normal business operations often result in missed opportunities, lost revenue, and a damaged reputation. This can mean make or break for a business. 2

5 Run Your Business from Anywhere You may believe you have ensured business continuity because you already have configured a fixed site-to-site VPN to connect remote offices together, or to reach your network when you are not in the office. However, with the increased business use of mobile and personal computing devices and the potential need for teleworking in times of crisis you also need to enable flexible secure access to and from unmanaged devices and unanticipated locations. Is your VPN flexible enough to connect all your employees who cannot reach the office during a disaster? Modern SSL VPN appliances support clients without the need to install thick software clients. This allows companies to use remote access for easily connecting workers unable to get into the office during a disaster, as well as for regular connections like remote offices and travelling laptops. SSL VPN technology also supports anywhere, anytime access to critical network resources from managed and unmanaged endpoints such as smartphones and mobile PDAs. 3

6 The Painful Truth About Backup Solutions Users expect IT to restore any lost files immediately. However, the painful truth is that IT cannot rely on users to backup their own data; the burden of backup falls on IT. Today s Continuous Data Protection systems provide more timely and reliable backup than traditional schedule-based file backup solutions. Many companies have opted for a disk-based primary backup to counter the limitations of traditional tape systems. Tape can be prone to human error, impractical to duplicate at secondary offsite locations, and time-consuming to relocate during a disaster. In contrast, disk-based systems enable automated and continuous backup, site-to-site replication to offsite locations, and disk-image snapshots using Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) that can cut the time of restoring a crucial server down from days to minutes. 4

7 Business Continuity Depends on Network Continuity What do you do if your T1 or DSL goes down during a disaster? What can you do to restore Internet connectivity immediately? Take advantage of 3G data networks provided by every major cell phone service provider. 3G can reach farther than broadband connections. Consider deploying a gateway firewall and router appliance with a 3G PC card. When the primary network connection fails, or when a group of users goes where broadband connections are not available, you can still provide network access. 5

8 Inoculate your Business from Disruption and Disasters with SonicWALL The SonicWALL Business Continuity Solution not only ensures workers can continue to be productive through such events, but also enables you to easily and quickly recover and manage resources should disasters undermine key network infrastructure. 1 2 Avoid disruptions in productivity with secure remote access solutions that let you continue business seamlessly. Recover business networks quickly by backing up all your data automatically and continuously both onsite and offsite, and by deploying multiple easy and reliable methods to restore lost or damaged data rapidly in an emergency. 6

9 The SonicWALL Solution: Preparedness for the Small- and Medium-Sized Business SonicWALL offers a comprehensive business continuity solution for small- and mediumsized (SMB) organizations: n SonicWALL Clean VPN provides the multi-layered dual protection to decrypt and decontaminate all authorized SSL VPN traffic before it enters your network environment. n SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection (CDP) solutions offer the only complete end-to-end backup and recovery solution for SMBs. n SonicWALL 3G Wireless Networking offers SMBs high-performance multi-threat protection and secure 3G broadband network access in an easy-to-use, low cost solution. 7

10 SonicWALL Clean VPN SonicWALL Clean VPN combines SSL VPN and high-performance Unified Threat Management (UTM) to protect the integrity of your VPN access by establishing trust for your remote users and their endpoint devices, using enforced authentication, data encryption, and granular access policy. At the same time, Clean VPN secures the integrity of your VPN traffic by establishing trust for this traffic, by cleaning and authorizing all inbound traffic for malware and checking all outbound VPN traffic in real time. Make sure your VPN is as secure as your WAN running deep packet inspection. SonicWALL SSL VPN appliances provide an easy-to-use, secure and affordable remote access solution that requires no pre-installed client software. The SonicWALL Virtual Assist feature opens up the possibility for a technician to provide on-demand technical assistance for laptop or desktop issues to a customer via a Web browser. SonicWALL Clean VPN can also assist in initiatives to ensure continuous compliance with internal and external regulations such as PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA. 8

11 SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection for Backup and Recovery SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection (CDP) delivers automatic, transparent and reliable backup to protect data, applications and systems from common user error, hardware failure, deletion, potential disaster and malicious attack. CDP provides flexible disaster recovery options, including SonicWALL Offsite Data Backup, SonicWALL Site-to-Site Data Backup and SonicWALL Local Archiving, as well as SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery of complete systems OS, files, applications, databases and settings in just minutes. No other solution offers such foolproof, intuitive and comprehensive disaster recovery protection while still being so easy to manage. Extensible across multiple platforms including Windows and Linux, SonicWALL CDP solutions can instantly recover data, applications, or entire workstation or server systems onto original, new or virtual devices with SonicWALL Universal Restore. 9

12 SonicWALL 3G Wireless Networking By leveraging recent advances in 3G wireless broadband technologies, organizations can rapidly establish high-speed access for disaster recovery networks, as either a backup to a wired line or as a primary Internet connection. In wireless environments where speed is critical, like retail point of sale (POS) applications, 3G wireless broadband offers an excellent business continuity solution. 3G can rapidly connect POS stations, portable ATM machines, construction sites, seasonal kiosks, and more. Combining a deep packet inspection firewall, integrated gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention and content filtering, along with Type II PC Card based 3G wireless broadband support, SonicWALL delivers comprehensive security for wired and wireless networks, without the need for a fixed Internet connection. 10

13 How Can I Learn More? n Download the 10 Cool Things Your Data Backup System Should Do E-book n Download the Clean VPN Approach to Secure Remote Access for the SMB Whitepaper n To opt in to receive SonicWALL newsletters For feedback on this e-book or other SonicWALL e-books or whitepapers, please send an to feedback@sonicwall.com. About SonicWALL SonicWALL is a recognized leader in comprehensive information security solutions. SonicWALL solutions integrate dynamically intelligent services, software and hardware that engineer the risk, cost and complexity out of running a high-performance business network. For more information, visit the company Web site at SonicWALL s line-up of comprehensive protection NETWORK SECURITY SECURE REMOTE ACCESS WEB AND SECURITY BACKUP AND RECOVERY POLICY AND MANAGEMENT SonicWALL, Inc Logic Drive, San Jose, CA T F SonicWALL, the SonicWALL logo and Protection at the Speed of Business are registered trademarks of SonicWALL, Inc. Other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Specifications and descriptions subject to change without notice. 11/09 SW 771