MILPITAS, Calif., May 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Shelter-in-place
orders have enterprises facing the unprecedented task of ensuring
the connectivity and security of expanding boundless workforces
that could potentially leave countless endpoints susceptible to
cybercriminals attempting to capitalize on opportunistic
threats.
SonicWall and GNC Holdings (GNC), a leading global health
and wellness brand, have been working closely to increase capacity
off the company's existing Secure Mobile Access (SMA) deployment to
connect and secure the company's growing volume of work-from-home
employees. SonicWall SMA is a secure access gateway that delivers
enterprise-grade, best-in-class SSL-VPN.
"IT departments were initially focused on making certain their
dispersed workforces were connected to the tools and data needed in
order to keep business operations moving forward at a time when it
seemed that the world had stopped," said SonicWall President and
CEO Bill Conner. "Once accomplished,
IT departments and C-suites realized that those new and countless
endpoints must be protected from threat actors that had realized
this new business norm could make for a much larger and less secure
target."
SonicWall and support have been working tirelessly to ensure
that businesses have the answers to their security requirements
that were instantly needed and can help close the business gap so
resources such as time and bandwidth can be allocated
elsewhere.
A SonicWall customer since 2013, GNC was using SonicWall SMA for
a small subset of occasional and mobile workers. With the
coronavirus outbreak in early March, GNC was immediately forced to
require all their employees to work from home. Capacity quickly
became an issue with an increased number of users securely
connecting over VPN. With SonicWall SMA, GNC was able to ensure
workers could quickly work from home — and be equally effective and
productive.
"SonicWall and its SMA product allowed us the flexibility to
provide our employees the capability to work effectively and
securely from anywhere," said GNC Senior Director IT Systems &
Architecture Paul Wulff. "Their ability to offer us 1,000 free
spike licenses was instrumental on such short notice to virtually
deploy our employees during this time of crisis."
SonicWall SMA enables organizations to provide anytime, anywhere
and any device access to mission-critical corporate resources.
SMA's granular access control policy engine, context-aware device
authorization, application-level VPN and advanced authentication
with single sign-on (SSO) empowers organizations to quickly and
securely protect and enable boundless workforces operating in the
new business normal.
The award-winning SonicWall SMA is a component of the
SonicWall Boundless Cybersecurity model, which unifies visibility
and control across every attack surface, boundless workforces and
multiple generations of IT deployments.
With Boundless Cybersecurity, organizations can extend
multi-layer protection beyond the perimeter via a modern,
multi-layer approach that can actively protect assets, devices,
data and users beyond conventional boundaries. This approach helps
organizations defend against threats across a range of attack
vectors, including networks, email, mobile and remote access,
cloud, SaaS applications, endpoints, IoT devices and Wi-Fi.
About GNC Holdings, Inc.
GNC Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GNC) is a leading global health and
wellness brand that provides high quality science-based products
and solutions consumers need to live mighty, live fit, live long
and live well. The brand touches consumers worldwide by providing
its products and services through company-owned retail locations,
domestic and international franchise locations, digital commerce
and strong wholesale and retail partnerships across the globe.
GNC's diversified, multi-channel business model has worldwide reach
and a well-recognized, trusted brand.
About SonicWall
SonicWall delivers Boundless
Cybersecurity for the hyper-distributed era in a work reality where
everyone is remote, mobile and unsecure. SonicWall safeguards
organizations mobilizing for their new business normal with
seamless protection that stops the most evasive cyberattacks across
boundless exposure points and increasingly remote, mobile and
cloud-enabled workforces. By knowing the unknown, providing
real-time visibility and enabling breakthrough economics, SonicWall
closes the cybersecurity business gap for enterprises, governments
and SMBs worldwide. For more information, visit
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