End Users Access Web 2.0 and Other Internet-Based Applications Without Security or Performance Constraints

SonicWALL, Inc, a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced the availability of the SonicWALL Re-assembly Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI) 8 engine. The breakthrough inspection engine, now optimized for SonicWALL's network security appliance (NSA) multi-core architecture, provides IT administrators with increased insight into inbound and outbound network content without compromising security or performance. This is particularly important as Web 2.0 applications continue to push their way into the business environment introducing new threats and taxing organizations' network bandwidth.

The new inspection engine is part of SonicWALL's overall Unified Threat Management (UTM) strategy, a layered security approach that addresses an increasingly complicated threat landscape. Using the RFDPI 8 engine's speed and intelligent inspection capabilities, SonicWALL UTM solutions allow administrators to inspect network traffic against malware, viruses and other threats while still maintaining the flow of information.

"Employees are increasingly deploying and using Web 2.0 applications such as social networks and streaming media in the workplace," said Jon Kuhn of SonicWALL. "For the IT administrator, the challenge is balancing access to these applications with security. SonicWALL's RFDPI 8 engine puts the control back into the hands of the administrators by providing deep inspection capabilities of all network traffic to provide uncompromised security, without sacrificing bandwidth -- it's no longer an either/or situation."

With the wide array of potential internal and external risks, organizations need security at every level -- from email signatures to the desktop. SonicWALL UTM solutions offer businesses comprehensive multi-layered protection with gateway anti-virus, gateway intrusion prevention, firewall, anti-spam, and content filtering.

"Customers where we have deployed SonicWALL's UTM solutions have seen a significant decrease in losses due to viruses, spyware and other malicious activity," said Mike Johnson of Cerdant. "In addition, they have seen increases in productivity due to the additional content management features. The new DPI engine has resulted in a tremendous improvement in performance. It has allowed our customers greater flexibility in deciding how and where it is deployed while maintaining their budget objectives."

  The new RFDPI 8 engine features:
  -- Universal security engine and signature language designed to protect
     all network protocols, malware and content inspection
  -- High performance engine that scales from single core to multi-core
     processors
  -- Ability to support any platform memory size without limitation of flow
     size (content length/size) or number of concurrent connections and no
     restriction or limit on numbers of flows protected