Designed for enterprise networks requiring full deep packet inspection protection and application control without compromising performance, the NSA E8500 combines tightly integrated intrusion prevention, sophisticated malware protection, and powerful application intelligence, control and visualisation.

Rock Valley College began experiencing bandwidth bottlenecks which impacted students and staff with slow and unresponsive Internet connections. Since the college lacked sufficient visibility into its network traffic, it was difficult to pinpoint the cause of the problem.

The College needed to consolidate multiple point-solutions and eliminate bottlenecks in its emerging cloud-based environment. The College was able to reduce administrative overhead by 30 percent through replacement of five security devices with one NSA E8500 – a saving of $20,000 a year.

The solution has boosted available bandwidth across the campus. To accommodate a growing number of students on campus, the College had planned to adopt another ISP. Thanks to the E8500 that was not necessary.

At the same time, the college also evaluated Dell SonicWALL Analyzer, a web-based application traffic analytics and reporting tool that provides easy-to-use, real-time and historical insight into the health, performance and security of the network. Shortly after installing, staff discovered a serious illegal web traffic incident and were able to verify and report everything needed very quickly.

Analyzer supports Dell SonicWALL firewalls, backup and recovery appliances, and secure remote access devices, while leveraging application traffic analytics for security event reports. Staff are able to look at the previous day’s traffic to look
for trends and uncover patterns in what’s being looked at, and when.

Oliver-Ramsay Security is a nationwide provider of Dell SonicWALL network security devices. Please contact us to arrange a consultation.