International. SonicWall announced a modern "Boundless Cybersecurity" model of unlimited cybersecurity designed to protect and mobilize organizations, large enterprises, government agencies, as well as small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) operating in a "normal new enterprise."
"What we're seeing now is a heroic way for businesses and organizations to provide security quickly and efficiently in the face of an unexpected surge in the remote and mobile workforce that will permanently change the way they operate," said SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner. "We are now living in the new normal business concept."
SonicWall's Boundless Cybersecurity approach helps solve the business cybersecurity gap, as workers prove to be less secure when working from home, leaving businesses more exposed than ever before. The platform offers seamless protection that stops the most evasive cyber attacks at infinite points of exposure and increasingly remote, mobile, and cloud-enabled workforces.
"This profound business shift will result in increased pressure to execute and deliver proactive data-centric security protection that is always on, learning at all times and applying new methods of protection against today's most pervasive cyberattacks," Conner said.
The new Boundless Cybersecurity model
IT departments are moving quickly to operate in the new business and operational normal while defending against threats in a variety of attack vectors, including networking, email, mobile and remote access, cloud, SaaS applications, endpoints, IoT devices, and Wi-Fi. SonicWall has experienced record growth in secure mobile access (SMA) hardware (+342%), SMA virtual appliances (+451%), and pooled licenses (+1,006%).
"We have had a record number of incoming requests from vertical markets spanning all domains, including enterprise, government, K-12, higher education and healthcare," said Chief Revenue Officer Bob VanKirk. "We are operating within a 'new normal' at SonicWall, with increased sales efficiency and sales effectiveness, just like our partners. The results also show that organizations and end users are also adopting this model."
As organizations work closer than ever with their security vendors, the SonicWall SecureFirst partner program has seen an influx of 1,100 new additions since February 2020, bringing its total to more than 21,500 globally.
Solving the Cybersecurity Business Gap
The current threat landscape is dramatically increasing the risk, making the cost of conventional security prohibitive and the shortage of trained personnel increasingly severe. The limited budget and staffing resources cannot be kept up, creating a growing "cybersecurity business gap" that cannot be overcome with conventional security approaches and resources.
"We have been working closely with governments in key areas as they become remote and with the need for secure access for thousands," Conner said.
"Like other organizations, they wonder how best to protect the integrity of their operations when nearly 100% of their workforce is remote and mobile. This paradigm creates a growing "cybersecurity business gap" in which conventional security approaches and resources are no longer sufficient.
As the workforce shifts around the world to work-from-home deployments, organizations are operating a much larger pool of remote users than they ever imagined, making virtual private networks (VPNs) more critical than ever before. In fact, SonicWall has seen a 1,766% increase in VPN-SSL clients quarterly.
SonicWall addresses this new challenge with the scalability and flexibility of its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) series, which has seen a 2,348% increase in user licenses since February 2020, and adds security and performance features in its latest release.
In the latest version of the product, SonicWall announced an increase in the ability of the SMA 100 series to support hundreds of concurrent remote users. Enterprises and MSSPs can scale more than hundreds of thousands of users with the proven SMA 1000 series.
Dynamic and short-term spyke licensing options channel any unforeseen events and disaster scenarios. SMA also enables users to take advantage of the economic and operational benefits of cloud platforms by launching their own virtual instances in private clouds based on VMWare or Microsoft Hyper-V, or in AWS or Microsoft Azure public cloud environments.
