SonicWALL Announces Timing of Third Quarter Earnings Release

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq:
SNWL) will host a conference call and web cast to report its third quarter
2009 earnings results on Thursday, October 22 at 4:15 pm Eastern Time (1:15 pm
Pacific Time).

All interested parties are invited to listen to SonicWALL Chief Executive
Officer and President, Matt Medeiros, and Chief Financial Officer, Rob Selvi,
present earnings results and business highlights for the third quarter of
2009, and guidance for the fourth quarter of 2009.

To listen to the live web cast, go to SonicWALL's investor relations webpage:
http://www.sonicwall.com/us/company/2518.html. Following the live web cast, an
archived version of the web cast will be available on SonicWALL's investor
relations webpage. A replay of the call will also be available after 8:00 pm
Eastern Time on October 22, 2009 through 5:00 pm Eastern Time October 27,
2009.

About SonicWALL, Inc.
SonicWALL is committed to improving the performance and productivity of
businesses of all sizes by engineering the cost and complexity out of running
a secure network. Over one million SonicWALL appliances have been shipped
through its global network of ten thousand channel partners to keep tens of
millions of worldwide business computer users safe and in control of their
data. SonicWALL's award-winning solutions include network security, secure
remote access, content security, backup and recovery, and policy and
management technology. For more information, visit the company website at
http://www.sonicwall.com/.

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.

SOURCE SonicWALL, Inc.

Press, Colleen Nichols, +1-408-962-6131, cnichols@sonicwall.com, or Investors,
Kelly Blough, +1-408-962-6329, kblough@sonicwall.com, both of SonicWALL, Inc.