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SONICWALL SONICOS ENHANCED 2.5 ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE
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Activating Intrusion Prevention Service
• Intrusion Detection - a process of identifying and flagging malicious activity aimed at information
technology.
• False Positive - a falsely identified attack traffic pattern.
• Intrusion Prevention - finding anomalies and malicious activity in traffic and reacting to it.
• Snort - an open source network intrusion detection system. SonicWALL IPS includes open-source
Snort signatures, as well as signatures from other signature databases, and SonicWALL created
signatures. SonicWALL does not use the Snort engine.
•Signature - code written to detect and prevent intrusions, worms, application exploits, and Peer-
to-Peer and Instant Messaging traffic.
SonicWALL IPS Activation
If you do not have SonicWALL IPS activated on your SonicWALL, you must purchase SonicWALL IPS
from a SonicWALL reseller or through your mySonicWALL.com account (limited to customers in the
USA and Canada).
If you do not have SonicWALL IPS installed on your SonicWALL, the Security Services>Intrusion
Prevention page indicates an upgrade is required and includes a link to activate your IPS
subscription from the SonicWALL Management Interface or to activate a FREE TRIAL of SonicWALL
IPS.
Note: You must have SonicOS Standard or Enhanced 2.2 (or higher) to activate SonicWALL IPS, and
your SonicWALL must be registered on https://www.mySonicwall.com.
mySonicWALL.com
mySonicWALL.com delivers a convenient, one-stop resource for registration, activation, and
management of your SonicWALL products and services. Your mySonicWALL.com account provides a
single profile to do the following:
• Register your SonicWALL Internet Security Appliances
• Purchase/Activate SonicWALL Security Services and Upgrades
• Receive SonicWALL firmware and security service updates and alerts
• Manage (change or delete) your SonicWALL security services
• Access SonicWALL Technical Support
Creating a mySonicWALL.com account is easy and free. Simply complete an online registration form.
Once your account is created, you can register SonicWALL Internet Security Appliances and activate
any SonicWALL Security Services associated with the SonicWALL.
Your mySonicWALL.com account is accessible from any Internet connection with a Web browser
using the HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) protocol to protect your sensitive information.
You can also access mySonicWALL.com license and registration services directly from the
SonicWALL management interface for increased ease of use and simplified services activation.
If you activated SonicWALL IPS at mySonicWALL.com, the SonicWALL IPS activation is
automatically enabled on your SonicWALL within 24-hours or you can click the Synchronize button
on the Security Services>Summary page to update your SonicWALL.