Understanding Radio Frequency Monitoring

Radio Frequency (RF) technology used in today’s 802.11-based wireless networking devices poses an attractive target for intruders. If left un-managed, RF devices can leave your wireless (and wired) network open to a variety of outside threats, from Denial of Service (DoS) to network security breaches.

To help secure your SonicPoint Wireless Access Point (AP) stations, SonicWall takes a closer look at these threats. By using direct RF monitoring, SonicWall helps detect threats without interrupting the current operation of your wireless or wired network.

SonicWall RF Monitoring provides real-time threat monitoring and management of SonicPoint radio frequency traffic. In addition to its real-time threat monitoring capabilities, SonicWall RF monitoring provides you with a system for centralized collection of RF threats and traffic statistics; offering a way to easily manage RF capabilities directly from the SonicWall security appliance gateway.

SonicWall RF monitoring is:

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Real-Time - View logged information as it happens
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Transparent - No need to halt legitimate network traffic when managing threats
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Comprehensive - Provides detection of many types of RF threats.

For complete descriptions of the above types of RF Threat Detection, see the Practical RF Monitoring Field Applications.