Oct. 13, 2009 (PR Newswire) -- SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, has released updates to its advanced network and email security solutions with the announcement of SonicOS 5.5 for Unified Threat Management (UTM), Email Security 7.2 and Global Management System (GMS) 6.0. Keeping data and voice networks secure should not grind performance to a halt and many so-called "best-of-breed" security solutions may compromise throughput for security. SonicWALL is redefining the limits of security and scalability by delivering superior protection against emerging threats and enabling broader manageability without compromising performance.

"SonicWALL is committed to developing industry leading, award-winning technology that best meets the needs of our customers that transform the historical tradeoff between network performance and security," said Patrick Sweeney, Vice President, Product Management, SonicWALL. "Today we are announcing innovative features not found elsewhere in the market that make networks faster, more secure and less expensive. These announcements include new firmware for the UTM Firewall line, a major series of enhancements to our email security product line, and a new release of our Global Management System."

Comprehensive Protection and Performance

SonicOS 5.5 for the firewall product line features SonicWALL's new Active/Active UTM, enabling a higher level of redundancy and security by providing full state synchronization for all network flows between both appliances. Unique to SonicWALL, the implementation is also able to intelligently utilize the secondary appliance's computing power to increase total network throughput, thereby allowing the SonicWALL solution to process more total traffic, deal with traffic spikes and improve overall productivity. In the event of a single unit failure, all of the traffic flow is maintained while the system gracefully transitions traffic to the remaining active appliance. Utilization of the addition CPU cycles on the secondary active appliance increases throughput for Intrusion Prevention, Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and other security functions by up to 75 percent(1). Additional enhancements of SonicOS 5.5 include:

--  Multi-WAN capability allowing up to 4 WAN interfaces to be configured on
any TZ, Network Security Appliance (NSA) and E-Class NSA appliance
thereby providing additional Internet redundancy along with outbound
load balancing
--  Single-Sign-On (SSO) Scalability improvements increasing the number of
authenticated users supported by SonicWALL NSA and E-Class NSA
appliances
--  Route-based VPN allowing administrators to configure and treat VPN
tunnels as network interfaces.