Mu Security Systems Measuring Resiliency and Robustness of SonicWALL
Mu-4000 Security Analyzer Uncovers, Documents and Expedites Remediation of Published Vulnerabilities
Sunnyvale, Calif. - July 11, 2007 - Mu Security, a pioneer in the new security analyzer market, today announced that SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL) a leading provider of comprehensive data protection solutions, uses the Mu-4000 Security Analyzer. SonicWALL now ensures customers best in class product resiliency and robustness by leveraging Mu-4000 systems to discover, document and eliminate sources vulnerabilities and potential security breaches for its UTM, Firewall and VPN product suites. With the Mu-4000, SonicWALL is automating its complex product testing and release processes using Mu's constantly growing three-plus years of published vulnerabilities to ensure systems remain highly resistant to malicious attacks and potential costly network downtime.
"As a security company with millions of users worldwide, our prime objective is to provide the highest level of protection against known and zero-day security breaches. We are committed to putting our products through the most rigorous stress testing possible in order to keep our customers safe and productive," said Joe Levy, chief technology officer at SonicWALL. "Mu's Security Analyzer complements our internal vulnerability detection methods, which accelerates our remediation efforts, and decreases exposure to exploitation."
Prior to implementing the Mu-4000, SonicWALL used a combination of strategic engineering resources, internally developed test scripts, open source tools and additional third-party test platforms for product quality testing and assurance purposes. With its product portfolio capabilities expanding rapidly, SonicWALL recognized the need to efficiently scale its vulnerability analysis and problem remediation processes and reduce costs through a more automated solution.
SonicWALL's solution of deploying the Mu-4000's Published Vulnerability Analysis (PVA) attack capabilities enhances the automation, regression testing and reporting framework of the security analyzer to ensure newly issued patches or signatures effectively block specific published vulnerabilities.
"By deploying Mu's PVA capabilities, we're automatically detecting and fixing a far greater range of published vulnerabilities with fewer IT resources in less time," said Levy. "Mu is providing our teams with significant competitive and time-to-market advantages as well as major cost savings."
The Mu-4000 creates detailed vulnerability auditing reports, produces packet capture (PCAP) files and Linux executables (EVTs) which makes it much easier for SonicWALL developers to reproduce and remediate vulnerabilities documented using the Mu-4000 PVA process. In many instances, SonicWALL developers have remediate vulnerability problems in hours versus days or weeks with the Mu-4000.
SonicWALL also plans to use the Mu-4000 for more extensive protocol mutation testing in the future. This will enable SonicWALL to test for the inter-dependencies among protocols across Layers 1–7 to detect and remediate protocol attacks that constitute over 80 percent of today's security vulnerabilities.
"Insightful firms like SonicWALL recognize that product stability and robustness is absolutely vital to customer repeat business and expansion, especially as a security vendor," said Adam Stein, vice president of marketing with Mu Security. "Far too many product vendors give in to the temptation to accelerate their feature time-to-market at the expense of thoroughly testing a product's security readiness. SonicWALL is the first public example of a leading UTM vendor to take advantage of automating very complex and tricky security analysis processes with the Mu-4000."
About SonicWALL, Inc.
Founded in 1991, SonicWALL, Inc. designs, develops and manufactures comprehensive network security, email security, secure remote access, and continuous data protection solutions. SonicWALL is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol SNWL. For more information, contact SonicWALL at +1 (408) 745-9600 or visit the company web site at http://www.sonicwall.com.
About Mu Security
Mu Security offers a market-leading security analysis system, delivering a rigorous and streamlined methodology for verifying the robustness and security readiness of any IPbased product or application. Founded by the pioneers of intrusion detection and prevention technology, Mu Security is backed by preeminent venture capital firms including Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital and DAG Ventures. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.musecurity.com.
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