SonicWall advances industry-leading enterprise class Email Security solutions

Businesses both large and small remain at risk to spam and virus attacks capable of crippling the corporate network and greatly reducing productivity and network performance. SonicWALL's Email Security 7.2 delivers uniquely innovative e-mail security features that are redefining the limits of security and scalability to ensure superior protection against these malicious and emerging threats.

Aimed towards both large enterprises and SMBs, SonicWALL's Email Security (SES) solutions are high-performance, easy to use, highly scalable and cost effective. This latest release for the SES product family delivers significantly enhanced levels of performance, effectiveness, ease of use and manageability for the entire breadth of the product line. Most notably, with the release of Email Security 7.2, SonicWALL's Advanced Reputation Management now provides the most effective protection against all forms of email-borne spam and malware, including spam originating from "spambots".

According to SonicWALL's SonicLabs Threat Research team, spambots are now responsible for up to 90% of all spam. Spambots are automated computer programs used by "botnets", or armies of compromised computer systems ("zombies"), under a common control structure. SonicWALL is seeing massive proliferation of botnets and zombies, as spammers increasingly focus on developing techniques to avoid traditional IP reputation systems by compromising mail servers at legitimate companies and cracking webmail accounts.

As part of SonicWALL's patented multi-engine email security system, Advanced Reputation Management offers industry-leading protection against spambots, taking traditional IP reputation systems a step further by correlating and analyzing billions of data points from SonicWALL's GRID Network of email, Web and network security solutions in real time. Email Security 7.2 offers best-in-class out-of-box effectiveness that can eliminate up to 99.93% of spam from reaching a user's inbox. Advanced Reputation Management can eliminate up to 98% of this spam at the connection level.

"SonicWALL continues to develop industry-leading e-mail security technologies in the name of providing customers large and small with innovative, enterprise-class protection," said Shahnawaz Sheikh, SonicWall's Regional Sales Manager of Middle East and Africa. "Spammers have shifted tactics to sophisticated, multi-vector attacks, elevating spam from a mere annoyance to a serious security threat. By combining leading-edge software intelligence with our state-of-the-art SES architecture, SonicWALL is able to deliver the level of email protection organizations require amidst an ever-increasing e-mail threat landscape - while offering ease-of-management and scalability. This not only eliminates threats before they enter the customer's network, but also minimizes bandwidth consumption and improves overall system performance."

"SonicWALL's Email Security solutions have historically provided Saudi Binladen Group with the enterprise-class anti-spam protection we've needed," said Mohammed Mateenuddin, IT Security Head of Saudi Binladen Group. "With Email Security 7.2, we expect to see a level of performance and manageability we had previously never thought possible. We look forward to this upgrade helping us keep our network as secure as ever, while maximizing employee productivity and network bandwidth."

Powerful Anti-Spam and Email Protection Against Increasingly Evolving Threats... And Much More
In addition to industry-leading effectiveness, Email Security 7.2 delivers significant additional advancements.

 Significant scalability: SonicWALL's industry leading MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) performance has an order of magnitude increase from that of existing software solutions, handling up to 10,000 concurrent connections and at a fraction of the lost of competing solutions.

• Advanced search: Augmenting SonicWALL's archiving, auditing and junk box capabilities, the new advanced search feature offers speed and efficiency unmatched across the industry, and gives administrators and end-users Google-like capability to quickly and efficiently search more than one million messages per second.

• Flexible management and reporting options: New support for SonicWALL's Global Management System (GMS), standards-based syslog support, and Windows Event Viewer. These latest options augment SonicWALL's award winning Email Security GUI and standards-based SNMP support.

Easy to install and use, SES is available as an appliance, Windows server-software, as a cloud-based solution through SonicWALL partners, or as a hybrid-cloud solution with the Comprehensive Anti-Spam Service on TZ, NSA and E-Class NSA network security appliances.

SonicWALL Email Security solutions protect some of the largest Enterprises worldwide, including numerous Fortune 1000 companies. For more information please click here.