Customers Validate the Advanced Protection Provided by SonicWALL Capture, Now Available With the Release of SonicOS 6.2.6

Singapore, July 28, 2016 – SonicWALL customers observed dramatic increases in their network security during the technical preview of SonicWALL Capture Advanced Threat Protection Service. With the general availability of SonicOS 6.2.6 firmware announced today, SonicWALL Capture is the industry’s first multi-engine sandbox that enables customers to block suspicious files until a verdict is reached. Additionally, SonicOS 6.2.6 features an enhanced Content Filtering Service that gives organizations the power to easily enforce protection and productivity policies to control access to inappropriate or unproductive web content.

Available for use with SonicWALL TZ, NSA and SuperMassive 9000 series firewalls, SonicOS 6.2.6 with SonicWALL Capture protects customers from today’s most advanced threats, including zero-day attacks.

Malicious code authors have developed techniques allowing malware to detect the presence of existing sandboxes and use this information to evade detection. To combat these techniques, SonicWALL Capture utilizes three technically different cloud-based threat analysis sandboxing engines, making evasion almost impossible. Capture also has the ability to accept the broadest range of file sizes and types and can be configured to block suspicious files from entering the system until a verdict is reached.

“We did some evaluations of other sandbox solutions, but SonicWALL Capture was the easiest to implement and most cost effective to license and manage.  Because it’s offered as an upgrade to our firewall and only requires a firmware update, testing and eventual deployment into a production environment was really easy. We are looking at utilizing this at our other sites as we focus on multiple, layered approaches to security,” stated Zachary A. Radke of Santa Fe Senior Living.

The new SonicWALL Content Filtering Service 4.0 available in SonicOS 6.2.6 enables IT to enforce protection and productivity policies and block inappropriate, unproductive and illegal web content from the network.  Key new features in this version include:

“The SonicWALL CFS version 4.0 has given us more power over the filtering system by allowing us to control the priority of the policies,” said George Morris, IT Administrator at Peru Community Schools. “This lets us set multiple allow or deny rules and have users with multiple policies, and still maintain complete accuracy of the outcome. We view these enhancements as proof that the best just got even better.”

“Our customers’ strong testimonials are proof that our Capture sandboxing solution is the best way to effectively guard against the latest threats, including zero-day attacks. Their statements on realized value reflect our original design intent for this solution, to provide a threat analysis technology that malicious code can’t detect and evade. Attackers develop more than 60 million pieces of unique malware every year, and the SonicWALL Capture ATP Service is the market’s only cloud-based offering to include multi-layer sandbox technologies that use system emulation, virtualization, memory analysis, and other techniques to detect and prevent these threats from entering the network. By including support for Capture in SonicWALL OS firmware 6.2.6, we are providing our customers with fast response times, high security effectiveness and reduced total cost of ownership.”