Innovate More, Fear Less with SonicWall’s Automated Breach Prevention at Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2017

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The Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2017 runs June 12-14 in the Gaylord National Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, promising the insight you need to guide your organization to a secure digital business future. As the world’s leading research and advisory company, Gartner helps business leaders across all major functions in every industry and enterprise size with the objective insights they need to make the right decisions. SonicWall is proud to be among the premier security, risk management and business continuity management leaders brought together for this major event.

To stay competitive today, organizations need to embrace the benefits of new technology, while managing its risks. Yet as recent headline-grabbing attacks such as WannaCry demonstrate, the global cyber arms race is continually evolving.

SonicWall is committed to enabling you to stay ahead of cybercriminals with cutting-edge security solutions that leverage continual threat updates from our global SonicWall Capture Threat Network. As a result, SonicWall customers were protected from WannaCry weeks before its first public attack. And with our comprehensive, multi-layered security approach, SonicWall is ready to help you secure your organization from the next emerging threat.

Join us at booth 503 to learn about the latest trends in cybercrime, as well as the advances SonicWall and the cybersecurity industry have made to counter them (as outlined in our 2017 Annual Threat Report). Take this opportunity to attend our expert presentations and demonstrations on how to prevent breaches, uncover encrypted threats, stop phishing and ransomware attacks, identify compromised IoT devices and stop threats targeting weak spots in your network.

  • Prevent zero-day and advanced threats. Watch a demo of our award-winning multi-engine sandbox, SonicWall Capture ATP, as it scans network traffic in the cloud to prevent threats from entering your network. See how you can block unknown files until Capture reaches a verdict, which is rendered by our Capture Threat Network in near real-time.
  • The majority of web traffic is now encrypted, as well as the malware that it carries. Learn how our Encrypted Threats solutions inspect SSL/TLS traffic to uncover hidden malicious behavior, block C&C communications and stop data exfiltration.
  • Because email is a primary vector for many attacks, you will also want to learn about our revolutionary next-gen Email Security solution to protect email files, stop phishing and block ransomware. Learn how you can block spoofed email and attacks with our hosted service for SMB or via our on premise enterprise email security solutions.

Don’t just detect breaches after they’ve already been in the headlines. We are holding a boardroom session titled: Automated Breach Prevention with Multi-Engine Sandboxing and Encrypted Traffic Visibility. Attendees will learn how to protect users from ransomware and how to deal with the increase of encrypted traffic. SonicWall Capture Labs built a multi-engine cloud sandbox to power the world’s first automated breach prevention platform. It was specifically designed to block the latest ransomware – whether it comes in via clear text traffic or through an SSL/TLS connection.

Let SonicWall help you prevent attacks in real time. Please join us at our “SonicWall Pub” hospitality suite on June 13 5:30-8:30 National Harbor 8 and see how SonicWall can help your organization innovate more, and fear less. Tune in via Twitter #GartnerSEC and follow @SonicWall. If you want a head start, you can play with our security solutions online by visiting our Live Demo site.

CeBIT 2017: Real-Time Breach Prevention with SonicWall, Your Partner in Cybersecurity

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Join SonicWall at CeBIT 2017 on the 20-24th of March, in Hannover, Germany.

With “Experience the Digital Transformation” as this year’s theme, IT Security will be at the forefront of the visitors’ agenda, alongside other leading-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, humanoid robots and applications of virtual reality. But security can’t be an afterthought! It’s at the core of everything organizations do. Without it, they can’t grow, can’t move forward and can’t innovate. Without effective security, too often, organizations default to inaction, to not moving forward. And they will have no choice but to say NO to their digital transformation.

The explosion of advanced threats is rendering legacy network security solutions obsolete. Ransomware, zero-day threats, encrypted malware and other attacks expose organizations to breaches that threaten business viability and compliance requirements. This creates the need for a new breed of network security solutions that deliver more than just breach detection. Organizations require breach prevention capable of handling threats delivered by any vehicle including web and email, over encrypted or unencrypted traffic, across any network including wired and wireless, and for not only PCs but tablets, smartphones and IoT devices.

As an exhibitor in Hall 6, Stand E03, SonicWall with five of its German partners – Data_Sec, Tarador, Die Netz-Werker, Pallas and Synexus – will demonstrate cutting-edge network security solutions that enable our customers to stay ahead of cybercriminals in the continually evolving cyber arms race, allowing them to embrace their digital transformation whilst meeting their compliance requirements.

Speaking of which, the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR – goes into effect in May 2018. It will affect companies of all sizes, in all regions, and in all industries, who holds EU citizen personal information. Victims of a data breach when the GDPR goes into effect risk significant fine (up to 20 million euros or four percent of their global revenues), and loss of reputation, that could bring the business to its knees. So don’t put off early consideration of GDPR: the scale, complexity, cost and business criticality of GDPR means that it will take some a long time for most companies to achieve full compliance…Start now if you haven’t done so.

SonicWall’s on-site presentations (we will have more than 45 exciting presentations), demos (including live hacking sessions), and experts will empower you and your organization’s networks to overcome numerous crimes targeting weak spots in your network. You will definitely want to see a demo of our award-winning multi-engine sandbox, SonicWall Capture ATP, which scans network traffic to prevent zero-day and advanced threats. We will show how we can block unknown files until Capture reaches a verdict, which is made possible by a highly effective multi-engine sandbox. Near real-time verdicts are rendered by our highly efficient GRID cloud threat network. Our next-gen firewalls also detect malware using SSL or TLS encryption to cloak malicious behavior, C&C communication and exfiltration.

Because email is a constant target for attacks we will showcase our revolutionary technology for email security that now integrates with our award-winning Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Service. SonicWall’s Email Security solutions allow you to deploy a next-gen solution to protect email files, stop phishing and block ransomware. Don’t miss out the opportunity to speak to our experts, and learn how you can block spoofed email and zero-day attacks with our hosted service or our on premise enterprise email security solutions.

Today’s ever-growing number of connected devices by mobile workers and vendors requires organizations to rethink their needs for IoT security. SonicWall’s access security and network segmentation delivers the right level of access to your mobile workers and reduces the threat surface. Right network segmentation is required for critical business apps and data to ensure better protection. With our Secure Mobile Access solutions, you can define granular access policies, enforce multi-factor authentication and monitor all activities for compliance.

Start securing your digital transformation with SonicWall, Stand E03 in Hall 6, where you will be able to experience first-hand how SonicWall next-gen firewalls, access security and email security offer the power to be competitive and fearless.

We are looking forward to seeing you soon. Bis Bald as they say in Germany!

Before you go, be sure to download our threat report.

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CRN Recognizes SonicWall’s Steve Pataky as 2017 Channel Chief

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Steve PatakyI am honored to highlight my esteemed colleague, Steve Pataky, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at SonicWall, who was just named CRN Channel Chief – the Top 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs of 2017. Steve not only brings with him more than 25 years of experience and an industry reputation for architecting and executing global channel and go-to-market strategies, but also a deep and genuine passion for helping partners succeed. He’s been a recipient of the CRN Channel Chiefs award for several years, and was among the magazine’s 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs in 2014, 2015 and again this year.

CRN’s 50 Most Influential Channel Chiefs of 2017 are drawn from a larger group of Channel honorees that represent the elite members of the IT channel executives – “leaders who drive the channel agenda and evangelize the importance of the channel partnerships.”

2017 Channel Chief

These are exciting times for SonicWall and our Partners. As the newly independent SonicWall we are proudly declaring that we are once again 100% channel, 100% security, 100% of the time. We are so fortunate to have the most tenured, talented and loyal Partners and I know Steve, along with the entire company, feels a deep and abiding obligation to ensure this next generation of SonicWall always puts our Partners first in our strategies and our priorities.

To that end, Steve and our channel team have launched the SonicWall SecureFirst Partner Program worldwide to our thousands of valued SonicWall Partners. SecureFirst is designed to easily give partners access to our entire security portfolio and reward them for the value they bring to selling and supporting SonicWall solutions. We’re thrilled that SecureFirst is off to a extremely fast start. In the first 90 days:

  • SecureFirst program registrations reached over 9,000 Partners across 90 countries
  • SecureFirst registrations in North America exceeded 5,900 Partners
  • SecureFirst Deal Registrations have spiked 66% in North America since divestiture

We look forward to continue helping our partners work with their customers to successfully navigate the expanding landscape of advanced threats in the cyber security arms race. We’re actively driving an industry-leading product portfolio to help customers detect and prevent breaches delivered in any vehicle, in any package, across any network and on any device. In fact, our continued innovations around the SonicWall real time breach prevention platform recently won four awards at RSA 2017 including SC Magazine Trust Award for Best UTM Security Solution for our SonicWall TZ Firewall Series.

It’s clear that with Steve as our channel chief, backed by the full commitment and resource of SonicWall, we will continue to always put our Partners first, with SecureFirst.

SonicWall is on a Winning Streak in the Cyber Arms Race at RSA 2017

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As we wrap up a “winning” week at the 2017 RSA conference in San Francisco, attended by more than 45,000, I am excited to highlight incredible momentum from our Threat Report, recent industry awards, and most importantly the conversations with our loyal customers and partners. We are excited to hear the overwhelming enthusiasm for the 2017 Annual Threat Report, the launch of Email Security 9.0 with Capture, the technical preview of SonicOS 6.2.7 and our SecureFirst Partner Program. In the kiosks in our booth, we demoed solutions to prevent breaches, stop phishing attacks, block ransomware, uncover SSL encrypted threats and identify compromised IoT devices.

All of the innovation to get ahead of the cyber arms race we are delivering to the marketplace has resulted in four awards. Just yesterday, SonicWall won the prestigious SC Magazine Trust Award for Best UTM Security Solution for our SonicWall TZ Firewall Series. The TZ is the most secure, sophisticated and widely deployed small-business firewall platforms on the market today. The TZ Series offers a range of Unified Threat Management solutions for SMB and distributed enterprises across retail, government, remote sites and branch offices. SonicWall also won in three categories from InfoSecurity Products Guide – Global Excellence Awards:

New Products and Services

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Security

  • SILVER for SonicWall Secure Mobile Access 1000 Series (version OS 12.0)
    Info Security Products Guide 2017 - Global Excellence Silver Award

Advanced Persistent Threat Detection and Response

The conference was also an opportunity to showcase our ground breaking 2017 SonicWall Annual Threat Report. We continue to build on the momentum of the unique threat data presented in the report. Among the findings discussed were:

  • Volume of unique malware samples declined to 60 million, a 6.25 percent decrease.
  • Point-of-sale malware creation declined by 93% percent since 2014.
  • Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security encrypted traffic increased by 34 percent year-over-year.
  • Cyber criminals shifted their focus to new threats, including ransomware attacks which grew by 167x year-over-year. Internet of Things devices created a new attack vector opening the door for large scale distributed denial-of-service attacks.

RSA 2017 Awards

Because email is a constant target for attacks, we had a kiosk presenting our new SonicWall Email Security 9.0 with Capture ATP. The cloud sandboxing allows you to deploy a next-gen solution for protecting email files, stop phishing and block zero-day attacks and ransomware.

We are also celebrating the launch of our SonicWall Secure First Partner Program. As a 100% channel company, SecureFirst is the way our channel partners access the entire SonicWall portfolio of technology and solutions. With the different levels of commitment to the program come various levels of rewards and benefits. Central to the new program is Reward for Value, SonicWall’s partner profitability framework that rewards partners for the value they bring to selling, implementing, and supporting SonicWall solutions. And SecureFirst is off to a really fast start. In the first 90 days:

  • SecureFirst program registrations reached 8,563 across 90 countries
  • SecureFirst registrations in North America exceeded 5,400
  • SecureFirst New Partner Registrations more than 1,500
  • SecureFirst partner deal registrations spike 66% since divestiture

At SonicWall, we are committed to helping our customers and partners fight the attacks to get ahead of the cyber arms race with the intelligence of our GRID Network, next-gen firewalls, extending our award-winning Capture capabilities with our Email Security solutions, and IoT security to protect the enterprise and drive business productivity. Our goal is to have our award-winning breach prevention, IoT device security and encrypted threat solutions reinforce each other and defend independently to ensure we are setting the highest level of protection for value for our customers and partners.

RSA Conference 2017: Prevent Breaches, Stop Ransomware and Block IoT Hacks with SonicWall

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The 2017 RSA Conference opens at Moscone Center in San Francisco next week, February 13-17. One of the biggest cybersecurity events of the year, the conference allows thousands of industry professionals to interact with leading security experts to learn about the latest threats, strategies and techniques to combat increasingly more devastating cyber-attacks. As a gold sponsor, SonicWall will demonstrate cutting-edge security solutions that enable our customers to stay ahead of cybercriminals in the continually evolving cyber arms race. We will talk about the advances that both the cybersecurity industry and the cybercriminal organizations have made over the past year, as outlined in our 2017 Annual Threat Report. In the SonicWall booth #N3911, we will also demo solutions to prevent breaches, stop phishing attacks, block ransomware, uncover SSL encrypted threats and identify compromised IoT devices.

SonicWall’s presentations, demos and experts at the conference will empower you and your organization’s networks to overcome numerous crimes targeting weak spots in your network. You will definitely want to see a demo of our award-winning multi-engine sandbox, SonicWall Capture ATP, which scans network traffic to prevent zero-day and advanced threats. We will show how we can block unknown files until Capture reaches a verdict, which is made possible by a highly effective multi-engine sandbox. Near real-time verdicts are rendered by our highly efficient GRID cloud threat network. Our next-gen firewalls also detect malware using SSL or TLS encryption to cloak malicious behavior, C&C communication and exfiltration.

Because email is a constant target for attacks we will have a kiosk introducing our revolutionary technology for email security. SonicWall’s Email Security solutions allow you to deploy a next-gen solution for protecting email files, stop phishing and block ransomware. Talk to our experts and learn how you can block spoofed email and attacks with our hosted service for SMB or via our on premise enterprise email security solutions. We will be making an exciting announcement, be sure to stop by and find out!

Today’s ever-growing number of connected devices by mobile workers and vendors requires organizations to rethink their needs for IoT security. SonicWall’s access security and network segmentation delivers the right level of access to your mobile workers and reduces the threat surface. Right network segmentation is required for critical business apps and data to ensure better protection. With our Secure Mobile Access solutions, you can define granular access policies, enforce multi-factor authentication and monitor all activities for compliance.

Our goal is to help our customers stay protected and ahead of today’s, ever-changing cyber-attacks. Start your journey at booth N3911 on Monday night with the welcome reception and experience first-hand how SonicWall next-gen firewalls, access security and email security offer the power to be competitive and fearless. Tune in via Twitter #RSAC and follow @SonicWall. If you want a head start, you can play with our security solutions online by visiting our Live Demo site. You can get a Free Expo Pass: https://www.rsaconference.com/events/us17/register with the following code: XS7DELL.

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SonicWall Survey Results Reveal Lack Of Preparedness for GDPR in EMEA

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Designed to strengthen protection of personal information for all EU citizens, the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR – goes into effect in May 2018 and may affect companies of all sizes, in all regions, and in all industries, who holds EU citizen personal information. Those who will be victim of a data breach when the GDPR goes into effect risk significant fine (up to Euros 20millions or 4% of their global revenues), and loss of reputation, that could bring the business to its knees.

In September 2016, SonicWall conducted a global survey on the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), revealing that organizations ‒ both SMBs and large enterprises ‒ lack general awareness of the requirements of the new regulation, how to prepare for it, and the impact of non-compliance on data security and business outcomes. Survey results show that 82% of global IT and business professionals responsible for data security at both SMBs and enterprises are concerned with GDPR compliance. Although the majority of global IT and business professionals express compliance concerns, respondents lack general awareness of GDPR, and they are neither prepared for it now, nor expect to be when it goes into effect, which is very worrying.

These results are very concerning as we are just 18 months away from the new regulation being implemented.

Don’t wait until it is too late: listen to the recorded webinar that sheds some light on the ins and outs of the new GDPR requirements and how to increase your overall data security posture to minimise the cyber risks and potential financial fines.

I also invite you to engage with a local legal firm who specialises in data security compliance and regulations, like Cordery in the UK, whose GDPR FAQs document is also very informative. Jonathan Armstrong, Partner at Cordery, recently told me:

“GDPR will be a game-changer for corporations.  It will mean greater visibility for mistakes, more questions from the board and higher fines.  There’s less than 18 months to go – that’s not a lot of time for the fundamental changes some business have to make to the way in which they deal with vendors, they way they train their employees and the technology they use. The time to get ready is now.”

This new regulation provides uniform data protection rights across the EU, and, to be in compliance, both European organizations and those outside of Europe that deal with European citizen personal information must adopt an adaptive, user-centric, layered security model approach around the tenets of prevent, detect, respond and predict.

To be GDPR-compliant and maintain it, you will need to carry regular audits and deploy network security solutions that will enable you to:

Protect the perimeter. Deploy next-generation firewalls to reduce the network’s exposure to cyber threats, mitigate the risk of data leaks that could lead to a data breach resulting in stiff penalties assessed under GDPR, and deliver the forensic insight required to prove compliance and execute appropriate remediation following a breach. The SonicWall next-generation firewalls protect against emerging threats and feature deep packet inspection; real-time decryption and inspection of SSL sessions; adaptive, multi-engine sandboxing; and full control and visualization of applications.

Facilitate secure mobile access. Foster the secure flow of covered data while enabling employees to access the corporate applications and data they need in the way they prefer, and with the devices they choose. Enhance data security (while removing access obstructions) by combining identity components, device variables and temporal factors (time, location, etc.) to deliver an adaptive, risk-based approach that ensures the right access all the time, every time, while concurrently improving data protection and GDPR compliance.

Ensure email security. To fulfill GDPR requirements, achieve full control and visibility over email activity to mitigate the threat of phishing and other email-based attacks on protected information, while enabling the secure and compliant exchange of sensitive and confidential data.

IDC is advising companies to not put off early consideration of GDPR. The scale, complexity, cost and business criticality of GDPR means that it will take (at least) two years for most companies to achieve full compliance. Most companies of all sizes need to start now.

SonicWall’s Capture Advanced Threat Protection Wins 2016 CRN Products of the Year Award

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There’s no question companies are being more proactive in their network security approach than ever before. We’ve made substantial gains as an industry, in terms of cybersecurity education and adoption rates across businesses of all sizes. But when major technology companies with multi-layered security programs are still falling victim to breaches year after year, it points to a different problem altogether – that even accepted security best practices can sometimes leave gaps.

It’s this simple and unavoidable truth that drives SonicWall to continue innovating to stay one step ahead of cyber attackers. And there isn’t a better example of this innovation than our cloud-based Capture Advanced Threat Protection Service.

In recent years, many companies have begun incorporating threat detection systems to protect against network attacks. These systems typically rely on a single-engine sandbox, which each vendor sets up to detect threats in a specified way, for example by scanning memory or cache. As you can imagine, this approach leaves security blind spots – cybercriminals only need to know which type of detection is being used to evade it. Even technology analysts have been at a loss for a simple solution, often suggesting customers leverage advanced threat protection from multiple vendors at once in the hopes of covering their bases.

Our team of product engineers recognized that for an advanced threat protection solution to truly stop unknown and zero-day attacks, it would need to address two weaknesses inherent in existing products: First, it would need to use a multi-engine, cloud-based sandboxing approach. Second, to take protection to the next level, the product would need to provide simple, automated remediation. This year, that innovative idea came to fruition as Capture, which was eagerly embraced by our enterprise users and has since become the hallmark of SonicWall’s offering.

Today, we are thrilled to announce that Capture has been recognized as the winner of the 2016 CRN Products of the Year Award for Customer Demand in the Security Network category.

CRN Products of the Year Award

CRN is a key IT industry publication for value-added resellers and technology solution providers. The publication hosts an annual call for entries to recognize companies that introduced the year’s most innovative and groundbreaking tech solutions. To win top honors in its category, Capture was evaluated on its ability to transform the tech industry by:

  • reducing production costs
  • increasing worker productivity
  • improving ease of use and money saved for both providers and consumers

Capture not only takes an innovative approach to solving these challenges, it’s proved supremely effective at protecting our customers’ networks against the ever-evolving and intensifying threat landscape. In 2015, our threat research team observed a 73% increase in unique malware samples collected over the previous year. Most of these threats were targeted, evasive and zero-day attacks found across computing systems and devices. Capture was able to detect and halt even advanced, layered attacks by combining the different protection approaches single-sandbox vendors use into one, multi-engine service. So far, the results have been remarkable:

  • stopped 7,300 newly developed malware infections in the past three months
  • stopped 1,400 zero-day attacks
  • provided a two-second mean processing time for files, with 82.8 percent of all files being processed in under five seconds
  • exceeded expected adoption rate on firewalls, including double the expected adoption rate on higher-end firewalls

Now we are honored to receive the CRN 2016 Products of the Year Award, as it is a gratifying reflection on the hard work and innovative thinking of countless SonicWall team members. And as we head into 2017 as a standalone brand, we remain just as dedicated as ever to continue this innovation to create a more secure world for our clients.

What started as a problem that no one in the industry knew how to solve has now become a market-leading, award-winning threat protection solution, keeping businesses safer around the globe. In a few short months, Capture has become a shining example of the opportunity that motivates us as innovators and industry leaders every day – when we put our knowledge and resources to work, we can play a meaningful role in enabling businesses to worry less and achieve more.

To learn more, visit the SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection Service.

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New SonicWall SecureFirst Partner Program -100% Security, 100% SonicWall

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Today is an exciting day for SonicWall and our channel partners.  As part of SonicWall’s transition to an independent company owned by Francisco Partners and Elliot Management and to affirm our 100% channel strategy, we are launching the new SonicWall SecureFirst Partner Program.  We thought long and hard on what to name our new program.  So why SecureFirst?  SECURE – because for SonicWall, security is our mission – it’s all we do and it’s what motivates us every day – to protect our customers from the constantly evolving cyber threat landscape.  And FIRST – because our partners and customers always come first!

SecureFirst is now the way our channel partners worldwide access the entire SonicWall portfolio of technology and solutions – from our best-in-class next-generation firewalls, SonicWall Capture for advanced threat protection, access security, email security and Security-as-a-Service.  With SecureFirst, all of these solutions will continue to be available through SonicWall’s network of valued Distributors, so partners can continue to source SonicWall products uninterrupted, in the way they are accustomed. Partners will find several program levels in SecureFirst, allowing them to commit to SonicWall solutions at a level that is right for their security practices. With the different levels of commitment to the program come differentiated levels of rewards and benefits. Central to the new program is Reward for Value, SonicWall’s partner profitability framework that rewards partners for the value they bring to selling, implementing, and supporting SonicWall solutions. Both up-front discounts and back-end rewards have all been refreshed with the new program and are optimized for partners growing their security practice with SonicWall. New sales and technical enablement will become available as well as new programs to help partners leverage greater services and support opportunity with their SonicWall solutions.  When you add it all up, SecureFirst has the horsepower to deliver high performance and deep security solutions with unparalleled protection for your customers, while driving accelerated reward and value for your business.

Sign up for SecureFirst today. We encourage all partners – whether you are legacy SonicWall, legacy Dell or a new partner looking to onboard with SonicWall — to enroll in the SecureFirst Partner Program.  The process is simple and straightforward. Further details can be found at the new partner website www.sonicwall.com/partners.

With a twenty-five year legacy as a security industry leader, we couldn’t be more excited about the launch of the new program.  Partnering has always been at the heart of SonicWall’s strategy and the partner program is an important part of that.  But equally important is the commitment we make to the channel and the deliberate dependence we have on our partners.  And the entire SonicWall team of security professionals that is dedicated to the success of our partners and their customers. These things will never change.  They are just as much a part of the new SonicWall as they’ve always been.  Thanks for investing in your partnership with the new SonicWall.  As always, we want to hear from you.  Find us on Twitter @SonicWall and @sppataky.

“We are pleased that the Secure First Partner Program rewards committed partners for the value they provide to customers, provides sufficient product margin and rebates, and offers discounted training and incentives for new SonicWall partners to grow their SonicWall practice.

Western NRG has been working with SonicWall exclusively for over a decade. We provide customers with custom-fit SonicWall configuration, ongoing appliance management, network reporting, and expert network security support. We are excited for what lies ahead as SonicWall begins this new chapter and continues to deliver the world’s best security solutions.” Said Timothy Martinez, President and CEO of Western NRG, Inc.

“For over a decade, SonicWall has been such a great and valuable partner across Latin America. A channel-centric vendor that provides profitable growth opportunity for us and our resellers on the cyber security segment helping small, medium and large customers to protect their infrastructure and applications,” said Rafael Paloni, President Latin America, Network1 ScanSource.

25 Years of Cutting-edge SonicWall Security: Deliver the “Yes” to Future Innovation

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This week, we are officially a separate company owned by Francisco Partners. Our new leader, Bill Conner, President and CEO of SonicWall, has outlined a vision and strategy in his blog for our newly invigorated company to grow and thrive. We are ecstatic about the changes ahead. We have a long history of securing organizations in an ever evolving industry.

Organizations know security isn’t an afterthought. It’s at the core of everything they do. Without it, they can’t grow, can’t move forward, and can’t innovate. Without strong security, too often, out of fear, organizations default to inaction. They say NO to innovation.

Saying NO to innovation is playing to lose. Great organizations don’t play to lose. Great organizations partner with companies that lead and demonstrate year over year that they anticipate security trends. They solve advanced security threats, simultaneously reducing IT complexity. They partner with security companies that enable them to say YES, without security fears, to projects and initiatives that unlock innovations yielding success.

For 25 years SonicWall has been the industry’s trusted security partner protecting millions of networks worldwide. From Network Security, Access Security, to Email Security, we have continuously evolved our product portfolio to fit in effectively, quickly and seamlessly. SonicWall has a tradition of providing innovative security solutions that enable organizations to innovate, to accelerate and to grow.

“SonicWall’s increased investment and commitment to channel partners is great news,” said Larry Cecchini, CEO, Secure Designs, Inc. “SonicWall has long been a highly regarded brand—sophisticated in its technology and in particular an excellent vehicle for managed services businesses. We are expecting our partnership with SonicWall to go from strength to strength.”

Our customers know it takes strong security to say Yes! SonicWall is the trusted partner that allows organizations to say Yes to the future without fear.

As a new company, we will continue to listen and refine our products to better protect to our partners and customers as your “Trusted Partner.” As a new SonicWall – you can count on our sophisticated solutions that are simple and easy to use and top performing technology. We are proud to immediately invest in the new SecureFirst Program and support our loyal channel partners who continue to succeed.

After 13 years at SonicWall, I am here to chart the future with all of you and am honored to support our partners and customers – protecting over a million networks worldwide. We want to hear from you. Stay connected @SonicWall. Together, we are your partner in cybersecurity.

Commencing a New Era in SonicWall’s Legacy of Leadership

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Like any veteran of the cybersecurity field, I’ve known SonicWall by its sterling reputation since the company’s early days as a business network security solution provider. Today, it’s a great privilege to find myself at the helm of this world-class team during not only one of the most exciting times in the business’ 25-year history, but also the most complex and critical cybersecurity landscape the world has ever seen.

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I’ve been part of the networking and security industries for more than 30 years, most recently as President and CEO of Silent Circle, an encrypted communications provider, and prior to that as President and CEO of Entrust, an identity-based data security solutions provider. I also served as President of Data Networks at Nortel, and later President of Enterprise Networks at the company, where I led the $9 billion acquisition of Bay Networks.

That experience has given me a broad and deep perspective on how to stay ahead of ever-changing global threats to give customers and partners the security tools they need. It comes down to a balanced marriage of customer and partner relationships, continuous product innovation and sustained support of core, industry-leading products.

SonicWall built its reputation on its amazing partnerships with customers and channel partners. Becoming an independent company is going to enable us to focus even more clearly on these relationships, serving markets of all sizes with specific strengths in large distributed environments, campus education, retail, financial, healthcare and government institutions.

We will continue our tradition of teaming exclusively with channel partners to identify and deploy the best network security, access security and e-mail security solutions for each environment. As evidence of this commitment, we recently announced our SonicWall SecureFirst Partner Program, introducing increased reward for value benefits, deal protection and expanded technical enablement on the SonicWall portfolio. Our friends at Dell will also remain an important part of the SonicWall community as a reseller partner, a relationship that was strong before the acquisition, grew over the last four years, and will continue to expand.

But it isn’t just SonicWall’s relationships that have made the company a global leader—it’s the company’s continuous achievements as a driving force in cybersecurity innovation. Today, our clients’ networks are protected by one of the most advanced tools on the market, the cloud-based Capture Advanced Threat Protection Service. Our team of product engineers recognized that for advanced threat protection solutions to truly stop unknown and zero-day attacks, they would need to use a multi-engine approach leveraging cloud-based sandboxing and would need to provide simple, automated remediation. Becoming an independent company will give us the freedom to react even more quickly to changing market conditions and take advantage of new ideas and opportunities as we identify them.

At the same time, it’s important that we continue to provide the industry-leading products that have made us a trusted name in defense-in-depth protection. It’s because of these core products that our customers remain safer than ever, even as cyber threats grow and shapeshift.

I am so thrilled to be part of SonicWall’s future as we continue to build upon the practices that have made the company great for 25 years, while also exploring new opportunities for growth and development. From the leadership team to the employee base to you, our valued customers and partners, the SonicWall community is poised for great things ahead as we eagerly enter this new era of innovation and growth together.

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