SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced Deep Packet Inspection for SSL traffic as part of its latest SonicOS release. SonicOS 5.6 is an upgrade to its operating system for the latest generation SonicWALL TZ, NSA and E-Class NSA firewalls. SonicOS 5.6, among other features, brings protection from SonicWALL’s powerful and revolutionary Re-Assembly Free Deep Packet Inspection (RFDPI) engine to SSL encrypted traffic. Available to all existing users of the company’s latest generation firewall appliances with current support contracts, SonicOS 5.6 uses the intelligence from the company’s GRID Network of more than four million endpoints and its in-house security research team to provide absolute security at the network gateway.
Today’s network security threats continue to evolve and are increasingly being masked with SSL encryption to evade detection. Network administrators are also losing visibility into their networks as more and more encrypted applications attempt to avoid the HTTPS protocol to potentially bypass content filtering and leak valuable information or expose networks to attacks from malware. Enterprises, retailers and educational institutions all face significant risks to their network, with threats exacerbated by remote employees accessing the network from outside the organizational walls. With Deep Packet Inspection seamlessly applied to SSL traffic, organizations are able to counter these encrypted threats and preserve the integrity of their network.
