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App Control Use Cases
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SonicOS 5.8.1 Administrator Guide
App Control Use Cases
Application Control provides the functionality to handle several types of access control very
efficiently. The following use cases are presented in this section:
• “Policy-Based Application Control” on page 680
• “Compliance Enforcement” on page 682
• “Server Protection” on page 683
• “Hosted Email Environments” on page 684
• “Email Control” on page 684
• “Web Browser Control” on page 685
• “HTTP Post Control” on page 686
• “Forbidden File Type Control” on page 688
• “ActiveX Control” on page 690
• “FTP Control” on page 692
• “Bandwidth Management” on page 697
• “Bypass DPI” on page 700
• “Custom Signature” on page 702
• “Reverse Shell Exploit Prevention” on page 704
Policy-Based Application Control
The SonicWALL application signature databases are part of the Application Control feature,
allowing very granular control over policy configuration and actions relating to them. These
signature databases are used to protect users from application vulnerabilities as well as worms,
Trojans, peer-to-peer transfers, spyware and backdoor exploits. The extensible signature
language used in the SonicWALL Reassembly Free Deep Packet Inspection engine also
provides proactive defense against newly discovered application and protocol vulnerabilities.
To create an Application Control policy, first create a match object of type Application Signature
List or Application Signature Category List. These two types allow for selection of either general
application categories or individual application signatures.