SONICWALL DELIVERS NETWORK SECURITY FOR SAVINGS BANK.

SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNWL), Sunnyvale, Calif., a secure network infrastructure company, has announced McHenry Savings Bank, a full service financial institution based in McHenry, Illinois, has deployed a SonicWALL(R) E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E5500 solution to establish high-performance LAN and VPN security, resulting in operational savings of over $30,000.

"The NSA E5500 gave us all of the throughput we wanted," said Bryan Nash, Senior VP of IT, McHenry Savings Bank. "Even when we turn on all the security functions, including Gateway Antivirus and Intrusion Prevention, we see no degradation in network speed, and no hiccups."

Using the NSA E5500, Nash was able to apply the SonicWALL Gateway Security Suite to help the bank comply with Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) standards, without reducing network performance.

Nash has deployed two SonicWALL NSA E5500s, with one at the main branch and one offsite. The NSA E5500 serves McHenry Saving Bank's online banking customers for check and statement image rendering, remote deposit for its commercial customers, and e-mail servers for employee remote access.

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.

Nash has also deployed a dozen SonicWALL TZ series devices throughout the bank branch network for both UTM security and point-to-point VPN connections.

"We use the TZs to VPN back to our NSA E5500 over an inexpensive DSL or cable modem, which works very well and keeps costs to a minimum," said Nash.

The SonicWALL solution has also enabled Nash to reduce costs in running the bank's ATMs.

"Traditionally, we had to pay additional fees to a third party provider to transfer ATM traffic back over a slow dial-up connection," said Nash. "With SonicWALL, we were able to send ATM data securely over the VPN and eliminate the third-party communications fee. That saved us over $30,000."

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 at http://www.sonicwall.com or call 408/962-6131.

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