Cybersecurity faced its own set of increased challenges
in 2021. The year was bookended by two major incidents: the SolarWinds attack in December 2020 and the Log4j vulnerabilities in 2021. In between, ransomware rose dramatically, far surpassing the levels we found alarming
in 2020. Most other attack types showed increases as well, including overall malware, which had been on a downward slide for years.

But while some may see these challenges and default to pessimism, doing so requires an impossibly narrow view of the preceding year — one which doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

When I look back on 2021, I’m amazed at what was accomplished. SonicWall made key engineering and manufacturing changes, ensuring our partners and end users were largely unimpacted by Supply Chain disruptions. We also completed the Gen 7 refresh of our next-generation firewalls, making our platform stronger, easier to use and more reliable, and unifying our portfolio across hardware, software and cloud.