SonicWall today announced new next-generation email security platform and firewall operating system capabilities for enhanced breach prevention against ransomware, zero-day and advanced threats. SonicWall Email Security 9.0 now integrates with Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Service to deliver a cloud-based, multi-engine sandbox that not only inspects email traffic for suspicious code, but also blocks malicious files from entering the network until a verdict is reached. SonicWall also unveiled a preview of SonicOS 6.2.7 operating system, delivering better breach prevention, a new threat Application Program Interface (API), more scalability and connectivity, and ease of management.
According to the 2017 SonicWall Annual Threat Report released this week, organisations are facing an onslaught of new security challenges. According to the SonicWall Global Response Intelligence Defense (GRID) Threat Network, the growth in ransomware attack attempts grew by 167x year-over-year to 638 million in 2016. SonicWall has a track record of introducing continuous cybersecurity innovations to provide defence-in-depth protection against these pervasive threats, such as its award-winning cloud-based, multi-engine Capture ATP Service introduced last year.
“Our 2017 SonicWall Annual Threat Report found that email remains a highly successful attack vector for cyber criminals because it’s all too easy for employees to fall victim to ransomware, phishing and unknown threats,” said Bill Conner, president and CEO, SonicWall. “SonicWall is enabling customers to stay one step ahead of cyber criminals by bolstering our platform with innovations that inspect and render a verdict on all email coming into and going out of their organisations, while keeping performance and usability high.”
SonicWall Email Security 9.0 Delivers Advanced Threat Protection
SonicWall Email Security 9.0 with Capture ATP Service utilises cloud-based sandboxing technology to detect advanced threats by scanning a range of email attachment types, analysing them in a multi-engine sandbox, blocking them until reviewed by an administrator, and rapidly deploying remediation signatures. Signatures for newly discovered malware are quickly generated and automatically distributed across the SonicWall GRID Threat Network, thereby preventing further infiltration by the identified malware threat. Organisations have a choice of administrative options ranging from removing an offending email attachment to blocking an entire message, leading to higher security effectiveness and faster response times.
“SonicWall Email Security featuring Capture ATP Service will further protect customers worldwide against known and unknown threats while defending against data leaks and compliance violations,” Conner said. “As an independent cybersecurity company, SonicWall is persevering to help protect customers in today’s cyber arms race by integrating Capture ATP Service across the portfolio.”