sonicwall solution adds unified threat management to ssl vpn sunnyvale, calif., july 28 /prnewswire-firstcall/ -- sonicwall, inc. (nasdaq: snwl), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced northwoods community church (northwoods) a member of the fellowship of evangelical churches serving a congregation of 3,900 churchgoers in peoria, illinois, has deployed a sonicwall clean vpn by combining a sonicwall ssl-vpn 2000 secure remote access appliance with a sonicwall(r) e-class nsa e5500 network security appliance. "we have users traveling and working remotely needing access to our servers and data," said jason lee, northwoods' it director. "even though they are trusted connections, we want to be sure we still have a line of protection at our perimeter. providing clean and secure remote access to our networks offers a huge value to us." northwoods' e5500 firewall scans both inbound and outbound ssl vpn traffic using gateway antivirus, anti-spyware and intrusion prevention services. as a nonprofit organization, northwoods is especially sensitive to value. "we have limited resources, but our expectations are no different than a fortune 500 company, and that's to utilize the best technology we can afford to help our team succeed," said lee. "sonicwall gives us security and performance that might be out of our budget's reach from a cisco or juniper." by selecting sonicwall e-class, lee freed up budget for other initiatives. and using unified threat management instead of separate services and servers from different vendors has lowered his costs, and eased budgeting and planning. lee has also extended the sonicwall approach to a clean wireless implementation. "we currently have 13 sonicpoints deployed to cover high-traffic areas of our campus," said lee. "we apply gateway antivirus, anti-spyware and intrusion prevention services, as well as content filtering, to all inbound and outbound traffic on our wireless network." the sonicwall e-class network security appliance (nsa) e5500 is a high-performance, multi-service network security platform engineered to be the workhorse of the enterprise network environment. taking advantage of sonicwall's reassembly-free deep packet inspection(tm) engine and an 8-core processor technology providing parallel traffic processing, the nsa e5500 delivers exceptional deep packet inspection performance for the enterprise network environment. 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 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 benefits associated with the deployment of sonicwall ssl-vpn 2000 and e-class nsa e5500 devices and anticipated performance for the enterprise network environment. 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, 2008, 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. note: sonicwall is a registered trademark of sonicwall, inc. other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. source sonicwall, inc. colleen nichols, +1-408-962-6131, cnichols@sonicwall.com, or sarah london, +1-408-962-6163, slondon@sonicwall.com, both of sonicwall, inc.