SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 24 CA-SonicWALL's-NSA
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today
announced that the Network Security Appliance (NSA) product line in
combination with SonicOS v5.0.1 has earned Common Criteria Evaluation
Assurance Level 4 certification augmented with flaw remediation (EAL 4+) from
the Canadian Communications Security Establishment, Canada's (CSEC) Common
Criteria Evaluation and Certification Scheme (CCS). EAL 4+ is one of the
highest mutually recognized certifications in the networking industry and now
applies to SonicWALL's NSA E7500, E6500, E5500, 5000, 4500 and 3500.
Common Criteria is an internationally recognized set of guidelines (ISO
15408), which define a common framework for evaluating security features and
capabilities of Information Technology security products. The standard
consists of several predetermined evaluation assurance levels, each one more
stringent than the last. Common Criteria allows vendors to have their
products tested against a chosen level by an independent third-party testing
laboratory. Once completed, Common Criteria certifications are mutually
accepted by 25 countries through the CCRA (Common Criteria Recognition
Agreement), including the United States government. Common Criteria
certification of security products is a requirement for purchases made by many
governments within the CCRA regime.
"SonicWALL continues to devote significant engineering and development
resources to drive the cost and complexity out of the infrastructure," said
Larry Wagner, Senior Director of Engineering at SonicWALL. "Network security
is a key priority for our customers, many of whom look to certifications like
these as product differentiators when making purchasing decisions. Achieving
Common Criteria certification on the NSA Series is an important milestone in
our continued effort to provide the industry's most secure network
infrastructure solutions."
SonicWALL's Network Security Appliance (NSA) Series appliances deliver
file and content-based threat prevention at gigabit speed. Combining a
powerful real-time and reassembly-free deep packet inspection firewall with
multiple layers of protection technology and a suite of security services such
as anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention and content filtering, the
NSA series appliances are designed for some of the most demanding deployment.
The NSA Series parallelized design and multi-core architecture deliver ultra
high-speed threat protection and deployment scalability, offering enterprise
and mid-tier customers an extensive array of advanced network and
configuration flexibility features, ease of integration, and deployment
flexibility designed to provide lowered management complexity and exceptional
value.
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 Common Criteria certification and the
benefits associated with the technology designed into the NSA series
appliances. 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.
SOURCE SonicWALL, Inc.
