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SonicWALL Complements Its Family of Multicore High-Performance UTM Network Security Appliances With the Launch of the NSA 240

Posted on: Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 12:00 CDT

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. , a leading secure network infrastructure company, today expanded its family of high-performance network security appliances with the release of the SonicWALL Network Security Appliance (NSA) 240. The NSA Series is the next generation of Unified Threat Management (UTM) designed specifically to address the challenges of application management and bandwidth growth by enabling network and security administrators to regain control over network traffic without compromising performance. The SonicWALL NSA 240 accelerates and prioritizes business critical network traffic, while attacking network threats, misuse of network resources and unreliable or unavailable Internet connectivity.

"The NSA 240 represents the fruition of our goal to create a leading edge Unified Threat Management Appliance targeted at branch offices, that delivers enterprise-class security and application management in a single, easy to use, easy to deploy appliance," said Patrick Sweeney, Vice President of Network Security, SonicWALL. "This product is going to shake up the market. We are the industry leaders in providing Re-Assembly Free Deep Packet Inspection(TM) (RFDPI), Intrusion Protection, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Content Filtering, and Application Management in a single, affordable desktop appliance that delivers stunning throughput."

Today's network and security administrators face an ever-more complex set of challenges as bandwidth usage continues to increase, reliable network services are mandatory and new applications such as SaaS, Web 2.0, social networking and streaming media dominate network traffic. Such use cases and applications present overwhelming security issues for branch offices and corporate networks-and administrators can no longer afford the tradeoffs between security and performance. Existing security solutions are extremely limited in inspection performance, unable to adapt to the continual changes in the application and threat landscape, and are often difficult to manage effectively. Customers require a much greater level of network and application inspection without compromising the ever-growing throughput requirements of today's complex communication networks.

The NSA 240 revolutionizes branch office security by combining multiple technologies into a single appliance solution, dramatically increasing the security and productivity of networks and removing the tradeoffs administrators make between security and performance. The NSA 240 protects networks against a comprehensive array of network security and content attacks, delivering granular inspection and control over a variety of networked applications and accelerating overall network performance.

At the forefront of the NSA 240 is the Reassembly-free Deep Packet Inspection(TM) (RFDPI) engine, which incorporates object-based contextual controls over user identity and access, application identity and access, data leakage, and network optimization, as well as granular reporting, auditing and forensics. RFDPI unifies multiple security filters into a logical solution, without drawing artificial lines between security and productivity and allowing IT to create reusable and adaptive policy control. In addition to offering breakthrough control and performance, the NSA 240 increases the reliability of networks through the integration of an add-on high speed 3G or Modem card, providing continual network operation when hard line connections are disrupted.

"The complexity and sheer volume of Internet threats continue to expand at a rapid pace," said Trevor Henke, Managed Services Manager, High Touch, Inc. "The combination of users spending more time online than ever before and the increased utilization of various rich-media applications means corporate networks are continually being opened up to new vulnerabilities. We have been extremely impressed with the overall performance and throughput of the SonicWALL NSA 240 and believe our small and medium-size enterprise customers will find tremendous value in this solution."

The NSA 240 utilizes the award-winning SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS), which provides administrators with the tools to easily configure, enforce and manage global security policies, VPN and services from a central location.

The NSA 240 is priced at $1,195 and the NSA 240 Total Secure is priced $1,770.

For more additional information please visit: http://www.sonicwall.com/nsa240

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 of the SonicWALL NSA Series offerings, the benefits associated with the NSA 240. The challenges facing network and security administrators, our ability to fulfill customer requirements for security solutions, the benefits associated with the Reassembly-free Deep Packet Inspection engine, the performance characteristics of the NSA 240, and the benefits associated with the SonicWALL Global Management System. 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.

NOTE: SonicWALL is a registered trademark of SonicWALL, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

SonicWALL, Inc.

CONTACT: Colleen Nichols of SonicWALL, +1-408-962-6131,cnichols@sonicwall.com; or Trevor Jonas of Bite Communications,+1-415-365-0360, trevor.jonas@bitepr.com, for SonicWALL

Web site: http://www.sonicwall.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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