Dubai, 24th February 2009- SonicWALL, Inc. a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced further development of its Clean VPN technology with the release of SSL VPN remote access integrated into the award-winning Unified Threat Management (UTM) platform.  SSL based Clean VPN integration delivers simplified and encrypted connectivity to remote network users while revolutionising protection by inspecting these same connections for intrusions, malware and misuse.   

Businesses today face increasingly distributed workforces, driving the need to provide secure network access to employees, contractors, customers, and partners.  The new challenge for network administrators is supporting simplified anytime, anywhere access from endpoints that may not be completely secure. 

"SonicWALL's integrated SSL based Clean VPN technology offers our customers' a breakthrough in simplicity and protection for secure remote access," said Shahnawaz Sheikh, SonicWALL's Regional Sales Manager for MEA. "Organisations want traveling employees and contractors to have fast and immediate network access but may not know these connections have the highest risk of spreading network threats.  SonicWALL's SSL VPN feature-set, allows companies to have simplified and efficient network access without increasing their security risks."

SonicWALL's Clean VPN technology simplifies remote access by connecting users with a browser based SSL VPN connection without requiring a pre-installed client.  This vastly improves the deployment time and comprehensively protects both employees and companies by cleaning connections of malware and harmful threats.   This technology uses an advanced and high-performance deep packet inspection engine that can find malicious content that may have been contracted while on the road, through network misuse or through the use of unsecure networks.

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

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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 SonicWALL's SSL VPN remote clientless access products. 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, 2006, 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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