SonicWALL earns NSS Labs ‘recommend’ rating in 2012 next-generation firewall comparative testing

BANGALORE, INDIA: SonicWALL, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, announced that NSS Labs, the recognized leader in independent security product testing, gave the SonicWALL SuperMassive E10800 its highest rating of ‘Recommend.’ To achieve this ranking, SuperMassive excelled in one of the industry’s most comprehensive, real-world tests of next-generation firewalls and secured a leadership position in NSS Labs’ Security Value Map (SVM).

The NSS Labs Next-Generation Firewall Product Analysis showed that the SonicWALL SuperMassive E10800 running SonicOS 6.0 is the highest overall protection next-generation firewall to earn the NSS Labs ‘Recommend’ rating.

“Those that consider the SonicWALL brand to be associated with SMB UTM products will need to re-evaluate their opinion,” said Vikram Phatak, CTO at NSS Labs. “For high-end multi-gigabit environments looking to upgrade defenses from their current firewall to a next-generation firewall, the advanced architecture of the SonicWALL SuperMassive E10800 running SonicOS 6.0 provides an extremely high level of protection and performance.”

“There’s no two ways about it: SuperMassive E10800 had the best combination of performance, effectiveness and value of any firewall tested,” said Patrick Sweeney, VP, product management and corporate marketing at SonicWALL. “We’re throwing down the gauntlet and establishing SonicWALL as the leader in enterprise, data center, service provider and government deployed next-generation firewalls!”