Deliver Secure and Fast Access for Mobile, Remote and Temporary Workspaces.
Having trouble to establish a secure connection for your distributed workforce?
Aruba Remote Access Points (RAPs) makes it easy for you.
Zero-touch provisioning
Deliver pre-configured access points with built-in diagnostics to any person or site that needs it.
Wired and wireless security
All RAPs feature secure wired and wireless connections that include encryption and user authentication to protect the remote network.
Seamless application access
RAPs extend the workplace desk experience anywhere that has an Internet or cellular connection. Laptops and VoIP phones work just like they do in the office.
The Aruba Advantage
Enhance network performance and user experience with SD-WAN services
Extend Zero Trust security and SASE frameworks from campus to edge
Optimize the network for business priorities based on IT-defined rules
Reduce mean time-to-resolution by accelerating WAN troubleshooting
Scale your distributed workforce from tens to tens of thousands with the same ease and efficiency.
SonicWall’s SonicWave Wireless Access Points provide your business with an enhanced user experience by delivering the performance, range and reliability of 802.11ac Wave 2 technology. Benefit from advanced, industry-leading security and wireless features. Leverage ease of deployment and management at a low total cost of ownership.
Secure Wireless Access Points
SonicWall’s advanced wireless access points include important features that match your business needs for security, management, ease of deployment and scalability. Connect your workplace with advanced, industry-leading wireless features.
Features & Benefits
This next generation of wireless access points includes important features that make it easy to deploy, secure, manage and scale your enterprise networks, all at a low total cost of ownership.
Security
Best-in-class, end-to-end wireless security includes Capture ATP and content filtering services. Provide WPA3 security on your Wi-Fi network with SonicWave Access Points.
User Experience
SonicWall’s SonicWave Wireless Access Points have superior user experience with 802.11ac Wave 2 support, fast roaming and auto channel selection.
Simplified Onboarding & Management
Take advantage of Zero-Touch Deployment powered by the SonicWiFi app for easy registration and onboarding.
Flexible Deployment Options
Flexible deployment options enable you to switch between cloud and firewall management.
SonicWave Series Access Points
The SonicWave Series Access Points provide best-in-class Wi-Fi technology with the ultimate in end-to-end security. They provide the latest in 802.11ac Wave 2 support along with single-pane-of-glass management and flexible deployment options.
SonicWave 200 Series
For those that need the same high quality of performance access points but at a lower density with distributed deployments, the SonicWave 200 series is the perfect choice. Take advantage of exceptional Wi-Fi user experience, deployment flexibility and cloud management, all with a low total cost of ownership.
SonicWave 400 Series
The best of the best in wireless access points, the SonicWave 400 series offers comprehensive threat prevention and centralized management with the highest overall performance and range. Get the utmost performance for high-density enterprises at the best value by leveraging the SonicWave series’ low total cost of ownership.
Featured Access Points
SonicWall’s Wireless Access Points have a variety of possible mounts, including indoor wall mounted, indoor ceiling mounted and outdoor access points that are ruggedized for harsh conditions and wear.
Indoor Access Points Ceiling Mounted
SonicWave 231c
SonicWave 432e
SonicWave 432i
Outdoor Access Points
SonicWave 231o
SonicWave 432o
Indoor Access Points Wall Mounted
SonicWave 224w
Wireless Network Manager
Leverage the ultimate flexibility and reliability of the cloud. SonicWall Wireless Network Manager (WNM) is a highly intuitive, scalable and centralized wireless and switching network management system. It unifies multiple tenants, locations and zones, providing integrated management for thousands of SonicWave access points and SonicWall Switches.
From a single pane of glass, WNM is capable of delivering rich analytics, powerful features and simplified onboarding via the cloud. This cloud-based infrastructure simplifies access, control and troubleshooting capabilities for organizations of any size. Wireless Network Manager can be deployed and accessed across multiple regions from anywhere with an Internet connection, all without the cost of complex overlay management systems.
WiFi Planner
Elevate your Wi-Fi user experience with the right design prior to Access Point (AP) deployment. The WiFi planner provides comprehensive heat map analysis, granular control and flexibility at no additional cost.
The SonicWall WiFi Planner is an intuitive, easy-to-use, advanced wireless site survey tool that enables you to design and deploy a wireless network. The tool allows for customized environmental variables and calculates the optimal positioning by maximizing coverage with the lowest number of access points. The WiFi Planner allows for manual placement of APs in the map and automatic placement by the advisor. Use it to plan new access point deployments or to ensure excellent existing wireless coverage.
Cybersecurity has emerged as a need of the hour. The rise of cyberattacks and data theft is on rise. Individuals and businesses mostly rely on computer applications, mobile / IoT devices and cloud storage to handle their data which can be sensitive and personal at the same time. The technological advancements have made conduct of business easier and at the same time the vulnerabilities to cyber-attacks have increased, especially with the increase in use of IoT devices.
Every business, small or big should take necessary cybersecurity measures and implement the most advanced solutions to protect their data to protect themselves from theft of intellectual property, sensitive data and corporate information, which results in huge losses for the business. The impact of cyberattacks can be vast including the cost for repairing the damaged systems.
Cybersecurity solutions combines technologies, processes and methods to protect servers, data and networks from cyber-attacks. Todays cyberattacks can no longer be prevented by firewalls or antivirus software alone. Also, to keep in mind cyber-attacks are inevitable. So how can a business be prepared to face the uncertainties of cyberworld and targeted attacks ensuring the safety of data and networks?
To help with, here is a list of top 10 cybersecurity best practices to help protect your business from cyber-attacks and threats.
1. Keep your employees aware of cybersecurity measures
Employee training is the first and foremost step every management should invest in ensuring cybersecurity. They play a vital role in cybersecurity because they can be the biggest security risk as well as the strongest security defence. Thus, educating them on possible threats, malicious activities and reducing the level of employee negligence is vital. Also never forget to protect access to corporate assets and monitor the employees while handling sensitive data.
2. Update your security policies
Security policies are the backbone of enterprise security. Businesses needs to ensure that they use the latest technologies to address cyber threats and attacks. Implement the latest cybersecurity solutions. There is a number of advanced cybersecurity solutions offered to ensure the high-end data and network security.
3. Enable multi-factor authentication for all users
To keep your accounts safer, always use strong passwords. Hackers often get into the internal sources of a business through compromised user accounts having weak passwords. Thus, to ensure the security of every user’s login, enable two-factor authentication along with a strong password. Multi-factor authentication involves having access cards or pins for critical access / privileged access. This will be an effective measure to prevent cyber-attacks.
4. Install anti-virus and anti-malware software
When you are connected to web, it’s nearly impossible to have a complete control and protection against malwares. The use of anti-virus, anti-malware software and firewalls can help to reduce the vulnerabilities. But for the present world’s scenario, having firewalls and anti-virus software alone is not enough to protect from threats. It requires an extra layer of protection from cyber-attacks such as implementation of advanced threat detection and vulnerability assessment solutions.
Access to critical and sensitive data should be monitored efficiently and the management should have control over the privileged accesses to protect theft of key data. To ensure such, access from remote devices should be protected and monitor the user activity through comprehensive technical solution. Its always good to have VPN services for your remote workforce. Also limit the number of users having access to sensitive data.
6. Have a robust cybersecurity policy and network protection plan
Having a clear and concise cybersecurity policy is key to ensure that your business is on the right track to defend cyber-attacks. Implementing too many cybersecurity solutions can also delay the detection of threats in real time. Thus, finding the right solution for your business needs is important. An all-in-one comprehensive solution such as SIEM can be an ideal cybersecurity solution wherein you get a complete cybersecurity picture.
There can be a number of spam and suspicious emails that an organisation may receive on a daily basis. The employees should always be conscious while opening an attachment, click on link or provide sensitive information. It may be a hacker impersonating as a company or an individual to get into your internal network. If emails look suspicious it is better to avoid opening them because it can possibly a phishing scam.
8. Avoid using public networks
It is always advised to use private networks rather than connecting to a public network. While connected to a public network, any data shared over the network is vulnerable. Hackers can easily get your data. Private networks on the other hand uses firewalls and internet router to block cyber-attacks.
9. Backup important data
It is important to back up your important data. Data can be lost due to security breach or a targeted cyber-attack. Thus, to ensure that your important data is not permanently gone, always have a backup storage in cloud or local storage devices. An offline backup storage will be a secure option to safeguard your data, always encrypt and backup data regularly.
10. Monitor third party access to your data
Sometimes the third parties such as former employees, consultants or clients may have temporary access to organisation’s network. It is important to keep in mind that, after the particular requirement for which the access was given, it should be restricted.
Cyberattacks can be defined as an offensive and deliberate action of breaking into an organisations or individual’s network and devices. It is a breach of information, wherein the attacker undertakes such activities to seek benefits in terms of financial or other. Even with advanced technologies, companies still prey fall for cyberattacks. This may be because of a small carelessness from the employees or the security team. Employees who do not follow guidelines have become the top barrier to IT security. An alert of security patch ignored once can open the door for hackers to launch their attack.
How often do cyberattacks happens?
With the hit of covid 19 pandemic, the rise of cyberattacks have shown a tremendous hike because of remote working, it was the ideal time for hackers to get into company networks due to the vulnerabilities of remote working. FBI reported, 50% more attack attempts per week on corporate networks globally as of 2021. This percentage will again rise with the following years.
Now, let us discuss some of the most common types of cyberattacks.
1. Malware
Malware can be defined as a term which is used to describe malicious software which gets installed in your system without consent. This includes ransomware, spyware, viruses, trojans and worms. The attackers get into the network through vulnerabilities which generally includes clicking on an infected email attachment or links.
Among the malware attacks, ransomware seems to be the #1 types of cyberattack. Ransomware is a type of malware which enables the hackers to encrypt victim’s data. They demand for a ransom to be paid to provide the decryption keys, and threatens to publish or delete the data unless paid. 3 out of 4 organizations fell victim to a ransomware attack. Every hour of downtime due to a ransomware attack costs an average of $250,000.
Immediate actions you can take to protect against ransomware
Update your software and security patches
Raise awareness among employees about the risks involves in suspicious emails and attachments
Backup your data offline.
Secure and monitor you RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)
2. Phishing
Phishing is one among the increasingly most common cyber threat. Phishing is a method of impersonating a company or an individual and sending fraudulent communications which appears to be genuine. But it contains malicious malware to hack into the victim’s system. The aim is to steal sensitive information from the users such as login and credit card details. Phishing emails can also include an infectious attachment to loads malware onto your computer and links that redirects you into downloading files.
3. MITM Attack
Man-in-the-Middle attack is type of cyberattack, wherein the attacker breaches into a network between two individuals or computers. The attacker can read and edit the data send back and forth, making the sensitive data vulnerable. It is called man-in-the-middle attack because the attacker places himself in the middle of a communication channel to manipulate data.
It is not easy to spot such attacks, as the data which is send from one end is revised or modified in mid-way and reaches to the receiver. It seems legit until something major occurs. The best way to stay vigilant ahead of such is to have a strong encryption on access points and use of VPN.
4. DoS and DDoS Attack
Denial-of-Service and Disrupted Denial-of-Service is another common type of cyberattack. The denial-of-service attack overwhelms a system’s resources making it unbale to respond to service request. DoS attacks are launched from a number of other hosts effected by the malware controlled by the attacker. DoS attacks doesn’t provide any direct benefits to attackers; however, DoS attacks can take a system offline to launch another cyberattack such as session hijacking etc.
5. Spoofing
Spoofing is kind of cyberattack where hackers impersonate themselves as a known or trusted source. The aim of the hacker is to get access into the target’s devices or network, steal sensitive information and for extorting money. It can also be for installing malware in the victim’s system. Cybercriminals trick the victims to provide their personal information and click on malicious links by acting to be a trusted source.
There are different kinds of spoofing, which includes; email spoofing, caller-ID spoofing, website or domain spoofing, IP spoofing, GPS spoofing, ARP spoofing etc.
6. Social Engineering
Social engineering is a type of cyberattack which relies highly on human interaction and involves manipulation of people into breaking security procedures. The hackers exploit human weakness to gain access to their personal and protected information. The four social engineering vectors are vishing, phishing, smishing and impersonation.
Here is an example of social engineering. Most websites have the option “forgot password” and reset them. If the password recovery system is not properly secured, hackers can easily gain access to your account.
7. Supply chain attack
Supply chain attack is another one of the most common types of cyberattacks that organisations encounter. The attackers target the weakest member of a supply chain network to tamper the distribution or manufacturing of a product by either installing hardware-based spying components or malware. Supply chain attacks are not limited to one industry. It can occur to any industry like information technology, industry resellers, government sector etc.
8. SQL Injections
SQL – Structured Query Language injection is one among the most common cyberattacks, where the hackers take advantage of websites which depends on databases to serve users. The attacker inserts a malicious code to the servers using SQL, and make the server reveal sensitive information. The SQL injection can be carried out by an attacker by simply inserting a malicious code in the search box of a vulnerable website. To protect your websites from SQL injection attacks, it is important to have least-privilege model and make sure that the code implemented against the database must be strong enough to prevent SQL injection attacks.
9. Zero-day Exploit
A zero-day (0-day) exploit is a kind of cyberattack where the attacker finds a vulnerability in a software and is not yet mitigated by interested parties. The hacker takes advantage of this situation to launch cyberattacks, and these types of attacks are most likely to succeed as there is no active defence. It is difficult to detect zero-day exploits since there is no patches or antivirus signatures to detect them.
But there are few ways to detect unknown software vulnerabilities of past, which includes;
Vulnerability Scanning
Patch Management
Input Validation
10. Insider Threats
Organisations implement advanced cybersecurity solutions to prevent cyberattacks. But sometimes the most dangerous attacks occur from within the organisation. The insider attacker will be aware of the cybersecurity measures undertaken, thus take necessary steps to stay unnoticed and fly under the radar until they launch the attack. They can easily penetrate through the enterprise network, have access to a number of systems and even have privilege access for sensitive data.
One of the best ways to prevent and detect insider threats is to limit the employee’s access to sensitive data and always monitor employee activity. With artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies implemented in modern day comprehensive cybersecurity solutions, any change in the user or employee behaviour can be detected.
Sophos call-out day was successfully conducted by Ingram Micro on behalf of Sophos at Syscom, on 21 June 2022. It was a productive session for the sales and technical team to upgrade their knowledge in Sophos products.
The session included a short briefing with the team by Ingram Micro and Sophos representatives, followed by a call-out session by Syscom’s sales team.
