Pharmacy College Successfully Blocks Spam and Phishing Attacks Using SonicWALL

St. Louis College of Pharmacy Saves Tens of Thousands of Dollars with SonicWALL Email Security

• Press Release
• Source: SonicWALL, Inc.
• On 9:30 am EDT, Friday October 9, 2009

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNWL - News), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced that St. Louis College of Pharmacy, the oldest college of pharmacy west of the Mississippi River, is successfully using SonicWALL® Email Security (SES) software to protect the e-mail of 1,500 students, faculty and staff, while lowering total cost of security.

"Statistically year-to-year, SonicWALL Email Security has saved us tens of thousands of dollars," said Chad Shepherd, Chief Information Officer at St. Louis College of Pharmacy.

Shepherd had deployed SES as a gateway e-mail security appliance to scan and control both inbound and outbound e-mail traffic.

"It's not only paying salary for IT staff to deal with the problem, it's also the hundreds of hours lost by employees sifting through spam," said Shepherd. "SES protects us from damage by phishing and other e-mail-based attacks by identifying and stopping abnormal activity."

For example, a user's authentication credentials were recently compromised by a phishing attack. SES alerted Shepherd that the outbound e-mail rates had exceeded a predetermined threshold and automatically stopped 150,000 hacker e-mails from being sent out.

"SonicWALL has really good management tools for e-mail security," said Shepherd. "No e-mail comes in or goes out of our environment in any shape or fashion except through the SonicWALL gateway."

SonicWALL Email Security is a self-running, self-updating solution, delivering powerful protection against spam, virus and phishing attacks in addition to preventing confidential information leaks and violation of internal e-mail policy and regulatory compliance laws. Available as a hardened appliance or as Windows software, SonicWALL Email Security protects inbound and outbound e-mail for organizations from 10 to over 100,000 users.

Shepherd chose SonicWALL SES over all other vendors.

"Our primary reasons for choosing SonicWALL at the time were its superior spam filtering and ease-of-management, and its price point was really good," said Shepherd.

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 use of the SonicWALL e-mail security software and solution. 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, 2008, 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.

NOTE: SonicWALL is a registered trademark of SonicWALL, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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