Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SonicWALL and Postec Achieve Success with Expanded Managed Services Offering for Retailers

Postec increases market share in hospitality ,retail, and grocery point-of-service with SonicWALL’s technology and managed services offering

Reno, NV – July 24 — SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL) and Postec, Inc., a SonicWALL Gold Partner and leading provider of point-of-sale (POS) technology solutions for restaurants, hotels, independent grocers, shops and stores, today announced continued success with Postec’s managed service offering for retail. The companies are showcasing their retail solutions this week at the Retail Solutions Providers Association’s (RSPA) annual EXPOtech 2006 in Reno, Nevada.

Traditional POS providers offer only the most basic services for their technology customers. Postec has re-imagined and expanded IT support for this vital, transaction-driven sector. Using SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS), a simple and flexible management solution for retail networks, coupled with SonicWALL’s award-winning Internet security appliances, Postec has redefined retailers’ expectations for network security, safety and accountability with its own managed solution suite of services.

“Customers in the hospitality and retail industries generally focus on the hardware aspects of transactional technologies,” says Postec President David Shaw. “Managed services for network and data security have been treated as an afterthought—if at all. Using technology from SonicWALL, we’ve changed our business to focus on value-add ongoing services, and our customers are responding. We’ve increased market share by helping countless retailers to reduce IT management costs and better protect critical business systems.”

For more information on RSPA’s EXPOtech 2006, please visit: www.rspassn.org.

About SonicWALL. Retail Solutions Today’s POS systems provide many important new applications to retailers, but also raise new networking and security challenges. SonicWALL helps retailers meet these challenges, and ensures the security and reliability of their systems, delivering rock-solid network security, flexibility and reliability. SonicWALL's line of high-performance firewalls, Unified Threat Management (UTM) services and management software secures POS transactions, protects the network and guarantees that sensitive customer data is safe at all times. More information is available online at: www.sonicwall.com/industries/retail.html

About SonicWALL, Inc. Founded in 1991, SonicWALL, Inc. is a leading provider of continuous data protection and network, Web and e-mail security solutions. SonicWALL, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol SNWL. For more information, contact SonicWALL at (408) 745-9600 or visit the company Web site at www.sonicwall.com.

About Postec, Inc. Headquartered in Atlanta, Postec, Inc. has provided integrated point-of-service technology solutions for the hospitality, retail, and grocery industries throughout the Southeastern United States since 1987. A leading distributor of Micros Hospitality Information Systems, it is the company’s unparalleled “Five-Star SafeServ Solution” it is best known for. For more information, contact Postec at (864) 268-3888 or visit the company Web site at www.postec.com.

Safe Harbor Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements include but are not limited to statements regarding SonicWALL's ability to assist resellers to grow revenues, increase cash flow and improve service; the appeal of managed services to resellers and customers; and the potential provided by managed services of increasing revenue potential and customer retention. These forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the time the statements are made and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward- looking statements. In addition, please see the "Risk Factors" described in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005, for a more detailed description of the risks facing our business. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to SonicWALL as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to SonicWALL as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement.

NOTE: SonicWALL is a registered trademark of SonicWALL, Inc. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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For additional information, contact:

Mary McEvoy
SonicWALL, Inc.
408-962-7110
mmcevoy@sonicwall.com

Kenn Durrence
The Hoffman Agency
408-975-3097
kdurrence@hoffman.com