Jon's Network

SonicWALL has released “Project Super Massive” – marketing lingo for their next-gen firewall along the lines of what Palo Alto Networks has been doing for a while and which Gartner recently endorsed. They mention Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI), which I think means this is completely new architecture and drastic change for SonicWALL. They use [...]

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SonicWall has live demos of their whole garden of products here.

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Organizations under pressure to keep students and employees from bypassing internet filters using client technologies, like UltraSurf are in a perpetual game of cat and mouse. A network admin I know used these steps to block it on his Sonicwall: Ultrasurf uses “140300000101″ for SSL ehlo messages. If you can block this signature with the [...]

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