SonicWALL extends Email Security suite to combat new email attacks and ease the pain of compliance

Version 5.0 of SonicWALL Email Security provides powerful new protection from spam and high-volume email attacks in addition to providing comprehensive and easy-to-use, compliance options to help organizations more easily meet policy and regulatory requirements.

SonicWALL's Email Security suite, which filtering approximately 5 billion messages monthly for customers around the world, was introduced earlier this year after SonicWALL's February acquisition of MailFrontier. The security suite delivers high-performance, easy-to-use inbound and outbound email threat protection for organizations of all sizes.

According to a recent report by market analyst firm IDC, spam has climbed back up the priority list of IT managers and security departments, and it ranks as the third-greatest threat to enterprise security. Of the 750,000 individuals who have taken the SonicWALL Phishing IQ Test, approximately one in three misjudge phishing emails. Half of the mail volume typically seen by email servers is comprised of brute force attacks, such as directory harvest attacks, denial-of-service attacks and other mail floods. In addition, compliance requirements further complicate the IT manager's job and increase the burden on IT organizations to maintain a clean and compliant email system.

SonicWALL Email Security 5.0 also enables organizations to address Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA and other compliance requirements by leveraging new functionality, including:
• Record ID matching (detect Social Security, credit card, and other pre-defined and custom records), pre-defined dictionaries (healthcare and financial), and pre-defined policies that complement powerful existing policy management and content filtering functionality to identify non-compliant messages.
• Encryption routing using third-party products and built-in TLS encryption along with on- and off-box email archiving that extends existing remediation options such as log, block, route, copy to, or put in approval box.
• Compliance reports that augment the existing reporting module and powerful email auditing functionality to provide a clear view of email traffic.

"Thousands of customers have standardized on SonicWALL Email Security to protect their organizations from spam, phishing, viruses, brute force attacks, and compliance problems," said Shahnawaz Sheikh, Regional Sales Manager, MEA at SonicWALL. "In our constant strive to innovate for our customers, this latest release enables customers continue to stay ahead of the threats while minimizing the time spent managing them."

To help customers threatened by high-volume attacks, SonicWALL has added robust denial-of-service protection, quality-of-service options, and a manual IP firewall. This technology adds to SonicWALL's existing LDAP-based directory harvest attack protection to provide a system designed to exercise complete control over mail traffic.

'More customers are coming to us with concerns about meeting regulatory compliance, including such topics as coping with rules that vary from state to state,' said Sheikh. 'The new reporting features in SonicWALL Email Security address this issue with pre-defined compliance options that simplify the process and also provide tools to meet audit requirements.'