Global Management System

SONICWALL GLOBAL

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Comprehensive security management, monitoring, reporng and analycs

A winning security management

strategy demands deep understanding

of the security environment to promote

better policy coordination and

decisions. Not having an enterprise-

wide view of the full security construct

operationally inefcient. This further

impairs the organization’s ability to

quickly recognize and respond to

security risks. Organizations must

establish a systematic approach to

governing the network security

environment to overcome

these challenges.

monitoring, analytics, forensics and

audit reporting. This forms the

foundation of a security governance,

compliance and risk management

strategy. The feature-rich GMS platform

This is all done via a controlled and

auditable work-stream process to keep

networks sharp, safe and compliant.

time event monitoring, granular data

governance, compliance and risk

• Adopts a coherent and auditable

approach to security orchestraon,

forensics, analycs and reporng

• Reduces risk and provide a fast

response to security events

• Provides an enterprise-wide view of

the security ecosystem

• Automates workows and assures

• Establish an easy path to comprehensive

security management, analyc reporng

and compliance to unify your network

security defense program

• Automate and correlate workows

to form a fully coordinated security

governance, compliance and risk

• Helps make regulatory bodies and

auditors happy with automac PCI,

HIPAA and SOX security reports

• Customize any combinaon of security

auditable data to help you move towards

threat informaon for higher level of

security eciency

GMS satises the enterprise’s change

management requirements through a

workow automation processes and

procedures. The workow feature

assures the correctness and the

exible, enabling adherence to company

security policy while mitigating risk,

reducing errors, improving efciency,

and ensuring high security effectiveness.

With GMS’s workow automation and

policy changes

immediately or on

a schedule

enable accurate

policy auding

and precise

Federate policy conguraon Easily sets policies for thousands of SonicWall rewalls, wireless access points, email security,

secure remote access devices and switches from a central locaon.

Change Order Management and

Work Flow

Assures the correctness and compliance of policy changes by enforcing a process for

conguring, comparing, validang, reviewing and approving policies prior to deployment. The

approval groups are user-congurable for adherence to company security policy. All policy

changes are logged in an auditable form that ensures the rewall complies with regulatory

requirements.

All granular details of any changes made are historically preserved to help with compliance,

audit trailing, and troubleshoong.

Sophiscated VPN deployment and

Simplies the enablement of VPN connecvity, and consolidates thousands of security policies.

Acve-device monitoring and

Provides real-me alerts with integrated monitoring capabilies, and facilitates troubleshoong

eorts, thus allowing administrators to take preventave acon and deliver immediate

remediaon.

SNMP support Provides powerful, real-me traps for all Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/

IP) and SNMP-enabled devices and applicaons, greatly enhancing troubleshoong eorts to

pinpoint and respond to crical network events.

Applicaon Visualizaon and

Intelligence

Shows historic and real-me reports of what applicaons are being used, and by which users.

Reports are completely customizable using intuive ltering and drill-down capabilies.

Rich integraon opons Provides applicaon programming interface (API) for web services, command line interface (CLI)

support for the majority of funcons, and SNMP trap support for both service providers and

Botnet Report Includes four report types: Aempts, Targets, Iniators, and Timeline containing aack vector

context such as Botnet ID, IP Addresses, Countries, Hosts, Ports, Interfaces, Iniator/Target,

Source/Desnaon, and User.

Geo IP Report Contains informaon on blocked trac that is based on the trac’s country of origin or

desnaon.

Includes four report types: Aempts, Targets, Iniators, and Timeline containing aack vector

context such as Botnet ID, IP Addresses, Countries, Hosts, Ports, Interfaces, Iniator/Target,

Source/Desnaon, and User

MAC Address Report Shows the Media Access Control (MAC) address on the report page. Includes device-specic

informaon (Iniator MAC and Responder MAC ) in ve report types:

At the core of GMS is a distributed architecture that facilitates

limitless system scalability. A single instance of GMS can add

visibility and control over thousands of your network security

devices under its management, regardless of location. At the

user-experience level, the GMS universal dashboard utilizes

cutting-edge user interface design and usability concepts that

work together to provide consistent operator workows across

the security ecosystem.

GMS is an on-premises solution, deployable as a software

or a virtual appliance. Alternatively, SonicWall Cloud Global

Secure Wireless Zone

SonicPoint ACe

Internal Firewall

summaries, top websites accessed, or the data that is most relevant to specic users.

Intuive graphical reports simplify managed appliance monitoring. Easily idenfy trac anomalies based on usage data for a specic

meline, iniator, responder or service. Export reports to a Microso® Excel® spreadsheet, portable document format (PDF) le or

directly to a printer.

Soluon GMS (On-Premise) GMS (Cloud)

Reporng S S

Policy Management S S

Customizable Reporng with Drill Down Capabilies S S

Mul-threat Reporng S S

Applicaon Usage Reporng S S

New Aack Intelligence S S

Bandwidth and Services Report per Interface S S

Reporng for SonicWall UTM Firewall Appliances S S

Reporng for SonicWall SRA SSL VPN Appliances S N

Universal Scheduled Reports S N

More Detailed Summary of Services over VPN Report S N

Rogue Wireless Access Point Reporng S N

SRA SMB Web Applicaon Firewall (WAF) Reporng S N

Ubiquitous Access S S

Alerts and Nocaons S S

Diagnosc Tools S S

Mulple Concurrent User Sessions S S

Oine Management and Scheduling S S

Management of Security Firewall Policies S S

Soluon GMS (On-Premise) GMS (Cloud)

Management con't

Dene Policy Templates at the Group Level S S

Policy Replicaon from Device to a Group of Devices S S

Policy Replicaon from Group Level to a Single Device S S

Redundancy and High Availability S S

Provisioning Management S S

Scalable and Distributed Architecture S S

Dynamic Management Views S S

Unied License Manager S S

IPFIX Data Flows in Real me S S

SNMP Support S N

Acve Device Monitoring and Alerng S S

SNMP Relay Management S N

VPN and Firewall Status Monitoring S S

Live Syslog Monitoring and Alerng S N

Below are the minimum requirements for SonicWall GMS with

respect to the operating systems, databases, drivers, hardware

Use the GMS Capacity Calculator to determine the hardware requirements for

your deployment.

Hypervisor: ESXi 6.5, 6.0 or 5.5

Use the GMS Capacity Calculator to determine the hardware requirements for

your deployment.

VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide:

Safari (latest version)

SonicWall SuperMassive™ E10000 Series, SonicWall SuperMassive™ 9000

Series, E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA), and NSA Series

SonicWall Network Security Appliances: SuperMassive E10000 and 9000

Series, E-Class NSA, NSA, and TZ Series appliances®

SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances: SMA Series and

E-Class SRA

SonicWall Email Security appliances