SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL) the leading provider of integrated Internet security solutions, has been selected by the Santa Barbara Police Department (SBPD) to provide solutions for secure Internet access and branch office connectivity for the SBPD and government agencies throughout the county. "The Department of Justice (DOJ) has strict requirements for Internet security, mandating that any government agency network connected to the Internet must have a firewall certified by the International Computer Security Associations (ICSA)," said David Straede, systems analyst, Santa Barbara Police Department. "We selected SonicWALL Internet security appliances based upon their reliability and ease of deployment. With SonicWALL, monitoring our IT security is now so automated, it enables me to focus on other networking needs." At its remote offices, the SBPD has deployed SonicWALL TELE3 security appliances with integrated Virtual Private Networking (VPN) for secure connections back to SBPD headquarters. At headquarters, one SonicWALL PRO isolates the internal local-area network (LAN) from a large, two-county, wide-area network (WAN) and concentrates the VPN connections. A second SonicWALL PRO provides controlled access to the Internet. A SonicWALL SOHO provides network address translation (NAT) required to access secure DOJ databases on a State-wide WAN. "Utilizing a SonicWALL for NAT provided us a cost-effective way meet the DOJ's requirements for IP address space use, and eliminated the need to setup a complicated and expensive router solution," said Straede. SonicWall Inc.