SonicWALL ENHANCES NETWORK SECURITY FOR MINNESOTA BUSINESS

Bennett Office Technologies Deploys High-Performance SonicWALL NSA 240 Network Security Appliance to Support Western Minnesota Business Clients.

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. – February 3, 2009 – SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced that Bennett Office Technologies has deployed a high-performance SonicWALL Network Security Appliance (NSA 240) to enhance the managed network security services it provides for customers throughout Western Minnesota.  Bennett’s clients include banks, casinos, and healthcare facilities that demand the highest levels of security in order to satisfy their  regulatory compliance obligations. 

“Security is a top concern for us,” said Tim Starkenburg, Network Engineer for Bennett.  “Previously, when we’d run all security services, we’d take a serious hit on bandwidth. Upgrading to the NSA 240, we’re realizing higher profits by getting the full 45 MB throughput we pay for, without sacrificing any security for our customers.”

The SonicWALL® NSA 240 is a next-generation Unified Threat Management platform, utilizing a breakthrough multi-core hardware design with two cores and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, enabling Bennett to provide real-time network protection without compromising performance. 

Bennett previously used competitive firewalls, but found that the prices were too high and the devices just couldn’t do what they needed them to do. 

“We’re very pleasantly surprised with how well SonicWALL works: the performance, the deep packet inspection—things we just weren’t getting from other vendors,” said Starkenburg.

Bennett is sharing the benefits it has received in-house by implementing the NSA 240 at its customer sites. 

“The NSA 240 is the perfect solution for the majority of our clients,” says Starkenburg. “You just can’t find anything to compete with the NSA 240 in terms of affordability, ease of deployment and reliability. With SonicWALL, our clients get security services they never dreamed they’d get without spending thousands more. That in turn means more recurring revenue and increased profits for us as well.”

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 NSA 240 unified threat management platform.  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.

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