Email Security 6.2 Implements Bounce-Address-Tag-Validation (BATV) to
Ensure Message Legitimacy
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today
announced SonicWALL Email Security 6.2, which features the
Bounce-Address-Tag-Validation (BATV) specification to combat an increase in
Non-Delivery Report (NDR) spam or backscatter messages. With the BATV
mechanism turned on, the product can distinguish a legitimate NDR message
from an NDR spam message -- dropping the connection from the NDR spam
server.
NDR spam is yet another form of spam mimicking a useful email
capability -- the bounce back message received when a valid email is unable
to make it to its final destination inbox. By implementing BATV, each
outbound message is "tagged" with a private key, transparently to the
sender. Arriving NDR messages are checked for the "tag" to ensure the
validity of the inbound NDR email with legitimate NDR messages being
delivered to the receiver as desired. Because SonicWALL Email Security can
process both inbound and outbound email on the same system the actual
implementation of BATV can be seamless to the customer as well as the
end-users of the system.
"More than 90 percent of the email messages our customers receive are
spam, phishing, viruses, or policy violations -- simply junk mail," said
Andrew Klein, Email Security Product Manager for SonicWALL. "For NDR spam,
the real solution is to not only to block invalid messages and allow
legitimate ones, but to make the process easy for the administrator. With
email security 6.2, administrators will no longer have to write, manage and
update countless policies and rules for NDR spam. BATV is an easy and
effective method to detect and drop fake NDR messages with minimal overhead
and no additional administration."
Other SonicWALL Email Security 6.2 features include:
-- Enhanced international effectiveness by improving language detection
capabilities. This allows SonicWALL Email Security to properly determine
the language of an email regardless of the tricks a spammer may use to
disguise or misuse different character sets. In this release Dutch, French
and Swedish are added
-- Enhanced performance monitoring which allows administrators to see a
visual representation of performance metrics on the SonicWALL Email
Security system
-- Simplified Licensing -- SonicWALL has eliminated user-bands and now
allows a customer to choose any SonicWALL Email Security Appliance or
Software system for their organization. Subscription services can be
purchased and stacked in user packs of 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000,
2000, 5000, and 5000+ as needed
For more information about SonicWALL Email Security 6.2, please visit
http://www.sonicwall.com.
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 features and benefits associated with email
security 6.2. 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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