Innovative Email Security Protection From SonicWALL Combats Rising Spam Level

SonicWALL’s New ES 8300 Email Security Appliance First to Offer Advanced Reputation Management Protection

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced the immediate availability of its new E-Class Email Security Appliance (ESA) ES8300, bringing performance, scalability, protection and lower total cost of ownership to a new level for mid-sized and distributed enterprise organizations, as well as managed services providers. In addition, SonicWALL is releasing firmware version Email Security 7.1 with Advanced Reputation Management (ARM) e-mail protection, available on all SonicWALL e-mail security solutions on appliances, Windows Server software or sold through partners as an in-the-cloud managed service.

“SonicWALL and the ES8300 saved the day for me with one of my customers recently,” said James Carter, CTO for The Integration Works, LLC, a SonicWALL Gold partner. “The customer’s existing Barracuda system died when over six million connection attempts attacked the system. I put in my ‘Beta’ ES8300 that I was testing as part of upgrading my e-mail security hosting service, and in less than an hour the customer was back up and running. In addition, the ES8300 discovered some internal infected systems that previously were unnoticed with the old system. The ES8300 had the horsepower to tackle the customer’s inbound and outbound e-mail, yet was straightforward to deploy. The customer was thrilled.”

The ES8300 is twice as fast, with twice the memory and ten times the disk storage as previous SonicWALL e-mail security platforms, providing an extremely cost effective inbound and outbound e-mail protection solution and a valuable tool in the fight against spam. SonicWALL’s Advanced Reputation Management (ARM) combines the power of Sender IP reputation techniques with the speed and depth of the SonicWALL GRID Network to reject up to 80 percent of e-mail threats at the connection level. To supplement and improve upon traditional IP Reputation information, SonicWALL introduces GRIDprints from the SonicWALL GRID Network, a real-time reputation analysis of the text, URLs, images, attachments and structure attributes of an e-mail. Supported by the SonicWALL Grid Network with over four million endpoints, hundreds of millions of messages and billions of reputation votes, ARM is able to scan messages, regardless of size, and subsequently block them before they even enter the system. Management includes logging of all actions, optional tuning of GRIDprint settings and centralized management and reporting across multiple systems.

“The ES8300 is architected to be extremely easy to deploy and manage while cost effectively delivering valuable capabilities like advanced reputation management for inbound e-mail and content protection management for outbound e-mail,” said Edward Cohen, Vice President of SonicWALL’s Email Security business unit. “This not only means higher productivity for both end-users and the IT staff, it also lowers the total cost of ownership for organizations, whether they need to just block junk e-mail or they require a complete inbound and outbound e-mail protection solution.”

In addition, all SonicWALL e-mail security solutions offer customers of all sizes the following benefits:

• Ability to deploy as an all-in-one e-mail security solution stopping millions of e-mail threats each day while providing extensive outbound e-mail protection that ranges from simple policy rules, to corporate governance, to complete e-mail compliance functionality in support of HIPAA, GLBA, SOX and similar regulations
• Ability to deploy as part of a split-mode configuration where multiple SonicWALL Email Security systems – appliance or software platforms – are combined to support multi-location, multi-domain, high availability, centrally managed and controlled e-mail security deployment.
• Granular on-demand, system-wide reporting capabilities, sophisticated performance monitoring and simple management
• Multi-LDAP support with per-domain settings
• Granular end-user customization and control over anti-spam settings and aggressiveness
• Outbound filtering and data leakage prevention with pre-built dictionaries and a powerful policy-based compliance engine
• Policy-based encryption with a variety of third-party vendors
• On-board archiving, with the additional ability to integrate with a variety of third-party archiving vendors

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

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 E-Class Email Security Appliance (ESA) ES8300 and our ability to create effective inbound and outbound e-mail solutions. 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, 2008, 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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