SonicWALL Exploring the Dashboard for Enhanced Security Insights

SonicWALL Security Dashboard

What is Security Dashboard?

The TotalSecure provides the latest threat protection information to keep you informed about potential threats being blocked by SonicWALL security appliances. When you activate SonicWALL’s security services, including Gateway Anti-Virus, Gateway Anti-Spyware, Intrusion Prevention Service (IPS), and Content Filtering Service, you are automatically protected from the threats reported by the SonicWALL Security Dashboard. SonicWALL’s security services include ongoing new signature updates to protect against the latest virus and spyware attacks.

How Does the Security Dashboard Work?

The SonicWALL Security Dashboard provides global and appliance-level threat protection statistics. At the appliance level, threat protection data from your SonicWALL security appliance is displayed. At the global level, the SonicWALL Security Dashboard is updated hourly from the SonicWALL backend server with aggregated threat protection data from globally-deployed SonicWALL security appliances. Data provided by the SonicWALL backend server is cached locally for reliable delivery.

Note The SonicWALL security appliance must have Internet connectivity to receive the latest threat protection statistics from the SonicWALL backend server, which reports aggregated data from globally deployed SonicWALL security appliances. If you lose connectivity, cached data from the last update will display, and the latest data will not be available until connectivity is restored.

Benefits

The Security Dashboard provides insight into threats over time, and can be configured to display data from multiple time periods. The SonicWALL Security Dashboard can be viewed easily in the System > Security Dashboard page of the SonicWALL appliance management interface, or as a custom generated PDF file. Figure 3 provides a PDF report view of the SonicWALL Security Dashboard.

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