SonicWALL's NSA and TZ Series Awarded Fips 140-2 Level 2 Certification

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (Map) - SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced that the Network Security Appliance(NSA) and TZ series product lines have earned FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification from NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the United States FIPS 140-2 Cryptographic Module Validation Authority) and CSE (the Communications Security Establishment, the Canadian FIPS 140-2 Cryptographic Module Authority). FIPS 140-2 Level 2, the cryptography standard used by governments and industries worldwide now applies to SonicWALL's NSA E7500, E6500, E5500, 5000, 4500, 3500, and SonicWall's TZ 190, 190W, 180, and 180W.

FIPS 140-2 is a validation standard for evaluating cryptographic modules, and includes stringent source code reviews, algorithm, physical security, and operational testing on cryptographic security products. The United States Federal Government is required to purchase cryptographic products validated to the FIPS 140-2 standard. In the international marketplace, ISO19790 is being adopted as a world wide standard and is a direct adaptation of FIPS 140-2.

"SonicWALL's active participation in IT government security validations signifies the companies' commitment to providing users with solid product security." said Larry Wagner, Senior Director of Engineering at SonicWALL. "Achieving FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification on both the NSA & TZ Series product lines is a testimony to SonicWALL's strategy of providing critical network security for government and financial institutions."

SonicWALL's NSA Series appliances deliver file and content-based threat prevention at gigabit speed. Combining a powerful real-time and reassembly- free deep packet inspection firewall with multiple layers of protection technology and a suite of security services such as anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention and content filtering, the NSA series appliances are designed for some of the most demanding deployments.. The NSA Series parallelized design and multi-core architecture deliver ultra high-speed threat protection and deployment scalability, offering enterprise and mid- tiers customers an extensive array of advanced network and configuration flexibility features, ease of integration, and deployment flexibility designed to provide lowered management complexity and exceptional value.

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 FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification and the benefits associated with SonicWALL's NSA series of products. 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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