SonicWall Boundless Cybersecurity Platform Swiftly Providing Remote Workforces with Secure Mobile Access, Defense in �New Business Norm�

• SonicWall platform defends remote, mobile
  workforces against sophisticated cyberattacks, provides increased visibility,
  control in hyper-distributed IT era 
• SonicWall
  reports record quarter-to-date growth for secure mobile, remote access, VPN
  solutions
• Channel partners respond to growing security
  demand; over 1,000 transacting partners join 21,000-plus SecureFirst partners
  worldwide in last quarter

 

MILPITAS, US – Media
OutReach – April 16, 2020 – SonicWall today announced a
modern Boundless Cybersecurity model designed to protect and mobilize organizations,
large enterprises, government agencies and small- and medium-sized businesses
(SMBs) operating in a ‘new business normal.’

 

“What we are seeing is a
heroic undertaking by organizations to quickly and efficiently provide security
for an unexpected rise in a remote, mobile workforce that will permanently
change the way they operate,” said SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner. “We
are now living in the new business normal.”

 

SonicWall’s Boundless
Cybersecurity approach helps solve the cybersecurity business gap as workers
prove to be less secure when working from home, leaving companies more exposed
than ever. The platform delivers seamless protection that stops the most
evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points and increasingly remote,
mobile and cloud-enabled workforces.

 

“This profound business change
will result in increased pressure to execute and deliver proactive, data-centric
security protection that is always on, always learning and applies new methods
of protection against today’s most pervasive cyberattacks,” said Conner.

 

New Boundless Cybersecurity Model Complements,
Accelerates Company’s Record Performance

IT departments are moving swiftly to operationalize in the
new business normal while defending against threats across a range of attack
vectors, including networks, email, mobile and remote access, cloud, SaaS
applications, endpoints, IoT devices and Wi-Fi. SonicWall has seen record
growth in Secure Mobile Access (SMA) hardware (+342%), SMA virtual appliances
(+451%) and pooled licenses (+1,006%). 

“We have had a record number of inbound requests from verticals that range
across the board, including enterprise, governments, K-12, higher education and
healthcare,” said SonicWall Chief Revenue Officer Bob VanKirk. “We are
operating within a ‘new normal’ at SonicWall, with increased sales efficiency
and sales effectiveness, as are our partners. Results are also showing
organizations and end-users are embracing this model as well.”

As organizations work closer than ever with their security providers, the
SonicWall SecureFirst partner program has seen an influx of 1,100 new additions
since February 2020, bringing its total to more than 21,500 globally. SonicWall further helped
enable partners, customers and prospects with a timely webinar, “How to Stay Operational During an
Outbreak,” which had record attendance across the
globe.

 

Solving the Cybersecurity Business Gap

 

The current
threat landscape is dramatically escalating risk, making the cost of
conventional security prohibitive and the shortage of trained personnel more
acute. Constrained budget and staffing resources can’t keep up, creating a
growing ‘cybersecurity business gap’ that is unbridgeable with conventional
security approaches and resources.

 

“We have been
working closely with governments in sensitive areas as they go remote with the
need for secure remote access by the thousands,” said Conner. “Just like other
organizations, they are asking themselves how best to protect the integrity of
their operations when nearly 100% of their workforce is remote and mobile. This
paradigm creates a growing ‘cybersecurity business gap’ where conventional
security approaches and resources no longer make the cut.”

Securing Growing ‘Boundless’ Workforces

As the global workforce shifts to work-from-home deployments,
organizations are operationalizing a much larger group of remote users than
ever imagined, making virtual private networks (VPNs) more critical than ever
before. In fact, SonicWall has seen a 1,766% increase in VPN-SSL customers
quarter-to-date.

SonicWall addresses this new challenge with the scalability and
flexibility of its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) series, which has experienced a
2,348% increase of user licenses since February 2020, and adds both security
and performance characteristics in its latest release.

 

In the latest product release, SonicWall announces that it has
increased SMA 100 series capacity to support hundreds of concurrent remote
users. Enterprises and MSSPs can scale upward of hundreds of thousands of users
with the proven SMA 1000 series.

Dynamic and short-term spike licensing options address any unforeseen events
and disaster scenarios. SMA also enables users to leverage the economic and
operational advantages of cloud platforms by launching their own virtual
instances in private clouds based on VMWare or Microsoft Hyper-V, or in AWS or
Microsoft Azure public cloud environments.

For more information regarding SonicWall Boundless Cybersecurity, visit sonicwall.com/boundless.