SonicWALL Security Dashboard
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SonicWALL TZ 180 TotalSecure
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.
