Debasish Mukherjee
Country Director India & SAARC
SonicWall

Brand Projections 2019

SonicWall keeps small and medium-sized businesses, enterprises and governments safe from cyber threats. With more than 18,000 partners, SonicWall protects over one million networks across 500,000 organizations in more than 215 countries and territories.

 
SonicWall announced a technology, security and partner mission to deliver network security solutions that align with the performance, security efficacy and high availability required by the modern mid-tier enterprise. It is also disrupting the market with its Capture Cloud Platform, which brings together network, endpoint and application security with management, reporting, analytics and visual cyber threat intelligence.

 
Real Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI™) is another patent pending technology that has the ability to identify everything on the network, including modern threats such as chip and memory-based attacks.

 
SonicWall Capture Labs Threat Network offers hitherto unknown insights into the threat landscape with depth greater than any other networking security company.

 
Transforming Customer Journey

SonicWall provides single sign-on access to a simple, common security management platform, from any location and any web-enabled device. Administrators can centrally license, provision and manage their security ecosystem, including network, endpoint, email, mobile and cloud security services, across deployments of various sizes. SonicWall tries and ensures to make available network security via bundles designed with the requirements of enterprises in mind and make it simpler for enterprise customers to do business with its SecureFirst partners.

 
Action Plan
 
SonicWall recently announced 12 new products, upgrades and enhancements which will be implemented with a special focus on mid & large enterprises. The products are Capture Cloud Platform; Capture Security Center; Capture Client 1.5; New NSa Next-Generation Firewalls; New NSsp 12000 Next-Generation Firewalls; Cloud App Security; Analytics available in cloud-hosted or on-premise options; SonicOS 6.5.4; Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 Series 12.2; SMA 100 Series 9.0; Email Security 9.2; and Global Management System (GMS) 8.6.

 
Fundamental to the release of its new enterprise-focused products and services is the strengthening of its go-to-market strategy and resources. SonicWall India engages with organizations in key verticals including retail, K12 and higher education, and state, local and Central Government. The company continues to partner with Dell and Telacos, while simultaneously expanding its relations with MSSPs and strengthening existing customer, partner and vendor relationships.

 
Commitment towards R&D
 
SonicWall has been heavily investing in R&D and this is what is giving it a competitive edge. Earlier this year it launched the Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection Technology (RTDMI™, pending patent) engine into the SonicWall Capture Cloud Platform. This is leveraging the technology to support our layered security platform, which includes next-generation firewalls, wireless network security, email security, secure mobile and remote access offerings, as well as cloud and IoT solutions. The Capture Cloud Platform engine has been built on SonicWall’s extensive history and innovation in machine learning and artificial intelligence – so this is in our development DNA.

 
SonicWall has several other artificial intelligence & machine learning projects in the pipeline that is focusing on producing actionable intelligence out of large volumes of data across our product line-up. The company has exploratory projects looking into using AI to identify source of issues in a complex network deployment.
 

FACT FILE
Headquarter : Milpitas, California
Year of inception : 1991
Name of the CEO : Bill Conner - President and CEO

Interesting Facts :
• SonicWall protects more than 1 million networks worldwide. This calls for continuous innovation and up gradation of the company’s offerings.

• SonicWall launched a slew of solutions over the past financial year:
1. Capture Cloud Platform: SonicWall Capture Cloud Platform delivers integrated security, management,
   analytics and control across entire SonicWall portfolio and aids organizations in mitigating growing volumes and variants of cyber-attacks.

2. SD WAN: SonicWall has recently built SD-WAN capabilities into its security appliances, a highly   effective technology for distributed organizations like retailers, banks, manufacturers and campuses to simultaneously improve performance and reliability.

3. Virtual Firewall: SonicWall’s Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) protects workloads in the cloud from threats, with automated, real-time breach detection and protection.

 
The path-breaking products/solutions from last FY :
SonicWall introduced 54 new products and 162 million lines of code in FY19. Recently, the company launched a new product called Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI™). This new patent pending technology by SonicWall captures unknown attacks.