SonicWALL, a leading provider of integrated network security and productivity solutions, has been recognized by CMP Media's VARBusiness magazine as one of North America 's top information-technology (IT) vendors for its partnership programs offered to solution providers of its products and services. SonicWALL was certified as a Five-Star Partner, acknowledging its commitment and strength of its programs for IT integrators, resellers and consultants.

Of the 250+ vendor-program entries reviewed for the past year, only 70 companies received the coveted five-star rating in the magazine's 12th annual Partner Programs Guide survey. The guide appears in the March 20, 2006, issue of VARBusiness.

"We applaud vendors like SonicWALL for demonstrating best practices and for the leadership roles they have achieved within the IT distribution channel," says VARBusiness Editor Lawrence M. Walsh.