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SONICWALL

TERRY GREER-KING,

VP EMEA,

SONICWALL

LEADING PROVIDER

OF MANAGED

AND MONITORED SECURITY

CALL 0333 006 8060 E: [email protected] http://www.ignite.co.uk

Complete Firewall solution,

including hardware, installation,

configuration, and ongoing

proactive management.

Without any capital outlay by

your organisation - all hardware

and maintenance costs are

included.

15 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 3AR

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or artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to

detect and respond quickly to cyber threats.

Capable of actioning these processes in

real-time, SonicWall claims to be able to

resolve 80% of cyber attacks in less than

two seconds.

Greer-King adds that although SonicWall’s

investment in technology has been “huge,”

there is another highly important aspect to

its approach: understanding. The impact

of culture on cybersecurity is arguably of a

similar magnitude to the purely technical, and

successfully communicating the philosophical

divergence between previous iterations of

security and the modern dynamic is essential.

“Previously we sold ‘padlocks’ against viruses,

but you can’t stop bad guys from doing bad

things. What you can do is understand the way

your business operates and plan for the future.

If you can understand the threats inherent in

the way that your business operates, then you

can start to prioritise risk.”

1991

Year founded

1,400

Number of

employees

“ MANY PEOPLE DON’T

THINK WE’RE GOING

TO ‘SNAP BACK’ TO

HOW THINGS WERE

BEFOREHAND. I BELIEVE

THE NEW CHALLENGES

ARE GOING TO

BE CONSTANT”

as ‘pushing security beyond the limits of

human ability’. In fact, with its Boundless

Cybersecurity strategy, the company can

collect data points across 215 countries and

apply the aforementioned machine learning