Sonicwall advances Industry-leading Enterprise-class email Security Solutions

Upgrade significantly enhances e-mail protection performance, offering the industry’s most effective best-in-class protection against spam and malware

SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced the availability of a significant upgrade to its advanced enterprise-class Email Security solutions with the release of Email Security 7.2.  As security threats based on e-mail continue to increase in complexity, sophistication and volume, businesses both large and small remain at risk to spam and virus attacks capable of crippling the corporate network and greatly reducing productivity and network performance.  SonicWALL’s Email Security 7.2 delivers uniquely innovative e-mail security features that are redefining the limits of security and scalability to ensure superior protection against these malicious and emerging threats.

Aimed towards both large enterprises and SMBs, SonicWALL’s Email Security (SES) solutions are high-performance, easy to use, highly scalable and cost effective.  This latest release for the SES product family delivers significantly enhanced levels of performance, effectiveness, ease of use and manageability for the entire breadth of the product line.  Most notably, with the release of Email Security 7.2, SonicWALL’s Advanced Reputation Management now provides the most effective protection against all forms of email-borne spam and malware, including spam originating from “spambots”.

According to SonicWALL’s SonicLabs Threat Research team, spambots are now responsible for up to 90% of all spam.  Spambots are automated computer programs used by “botnets”, or armies of compromised computer systems (“zombies”), under a common control structure.  SonicWALL is seeing massive proliferation of botnets and zombies, as spammers increasingly focus on developing techniques to avoid traditional IP reputation systems by compromising mail servers at legitimate companies and cracking webmail accounts.

As part of SonicWALL’s patented multi-engine email security system, Advanced Reputation Management offers industry-leading protection against spambots, taking traditional IP reputation systems a step further by correlating and analyzing billions of data points from SonicWALL’s GRID Network of email, Web and network security solutions in real time.  Email Security 7.2 offers best-in-class out-of-box effectiveness that can eliminate up to 99.93% of spam from reaching a user’s inbox.  Advanced Reputation Management can eliminate up to 98% of this spam at the connection level.

“SonicWALL continues to develop industry-leading e-mail security technologies in the name of providing customers large and small with innovative, enterprise-class protection,” said Shahnawaz Sheikh, SonicWall’s Regional Sales Manager of Middle East and Africa.  “Spammers have shifted tactics to sophisticated, multi-vector attacks, elevating spam from a mere annoyance to a serious security threat.  By combining leading-edge software intelligence with our state-of-the-art SES architecture, SonicWALL is able to deliver the level of email protection organizations require amidst an ever-increasing e-mail threat landscape – while offering ease-of-management and scalability.  This not only eliminates threats before they enter the customer’s network, but also minimizes bandwidth consumption and improves overall system performance.”

“SonicWALL’s Email Security solutions have historically provided Saudi Binladen Group with the enterprise-class anti-spam protection we’ve needed,” said Mohammed Mateenuddin, IT Security Head of Saudi Binladen Group.  “With Email Security 7.2, we expect to see a level of performance and manageability we had previously never thought possible. We look forward to this upgrade helping us keep our network as secure as ever, while maximizing employee productivity and network bandwidth.”

Powerful Anti-Spam and Email Protection Against Increasingly Evolving Threats… And Much More
In addition to industry-leading effectiveness, Email Security 7.2 delivers significant additional advancements.
Significant scalability:  SonicWALL’s industry leading MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) performance has an order of magnitude increase from that of existing software solutions, handling up to 10,000 concurrent connections and at a fraction of the lost of competing solutions.

Advanced search:  Augmenting SonicWALL’s archiving, auditing and junk box capabilities, the new advanced search feature offers speed and efficiency unmatched across the industry, and gives administrators and end-users Google-like capability to quickly and efficiently search more than one million messages per second.
Flexible management and reporting options:  New support for SonicWALL’s Global Management System (GMS), standards-based syslog support, and Windows Event Viewer.  These latest options augment SonicWALL’s award winning Email Security GUI and standards-based SNMP support.

Easy to install and use, SES is available as an appliance, Windows server-software, as a cloud-based solution through SonicWALL partners, or as a hybrid-cloud solution with the Comprehensive Anti-Spam Service on TZ, NSA and E-Class NSA network security appliances.

SonicWALL Email Security solutions protect some of the largest Enterprises worldwide, including numerous Fortune 1000 companies. For more information please click here.

About SonicWALL, Inc:
SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of businesses of all sizes by engineering the cost and complexity out of running a secure network. Over one million SonicWALL appliances have been shipped through its global network of ten thousand channel partners to keep tens of millions of worldwide business computer users safe and in control of their data. SonicWALL’s award-winning solutions include network security, secure remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and management technology. For more information, visit the company web site at http://www.sonicwall.com/.

Safe Harbor Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements include but are not limited to statements regarding the benefits associated with the Customer Advantage Program and the benefits associated with implementing the applicable SonicWALL product lines. These forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the time the statements are made and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements. In addition, please see the “Risk Factors” described in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, for a more detailed description of the risks facing our business. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to SonicWALL as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement.

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