April 10, 2003

Fusionstorm becomes a strategic reseller for Deepnines Technologies

DALLAS, TEXAS - FusionStorm and DeepNines Technologies today announced a strategic reseller agreement which enables FusionStorm to resell and implement The Sleuth9T Security System. Next week, FusionStorm will showcase its capabilities in DeepNines booth #1507 during the RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA. DeepNines plans to launch its all new Sleuth9 Security System at the show.

As a result of this agreement, FusionStorm is now certified to resell and implement Sleuth9 for emerging and mid-sized companies and prevent DoS, DDoS, port scans, and propagating attacks like Trojan horses, viruses and worms from entering or leaving networks.

" We are excited about adding Sleuth9 to our security solutions portfolio," said Josh Krasnegor, VP of Marketing at FusionStorm. "Sleuth9 strengthens our managed security offering by enabling us to deploy a powerful and proven intrusion prevention system in front of the router and stopping intrusions before they reach the network."

Sleuth9 is unique in that it operates in "stealth" mode, is invisible to hackers, and carries no IP or MAC address. Only Sleuth9 uses multi-method protocol and traffic anomaly detection along with proprietary behavior monitoring to block malicious traffic and allow good traffic to pass. Sleuth9 evaluates all network traffic, both ingress and egress, at the packet level, to determine what is valid and what is malicious. As a result, Sleuth9 can detect and automatically prevent cyber attacks from entering or leaving a network, and forms a new perimeter of defense against DoS, DDoS, port scans, Trojan horses, self-propagating attacks, worms and viruses as well as other cyber attacks.

" FusionStorm has extensive experience delivering quality solutions and services designed to meet the needs of emerging and mid-sized companies," said Dan Jackson, president and COO at DeepNines Technologies. "By partnering with DeepNines and deploying Sleuth9, FusionStorm is able to provide its customers with network availability deep into the nines."

New Product Launch at RSA DeepNines will launch a new version of The Sleuth9 Security System at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA on April 13th, 2003. Media or analysts interested in scheduling a briefing with DeepNines executives should contact Jim O'Gara at jogara@itsonmessage.com or 214-616-6226. For more information about the conference go to news and events or visit http://www.rsaconference.net/rsa2003/.

About FusionStorm FusionStorm delivers a complete range of Remote IT Managed Services and Professional Services to emerging and midsize companies. By bringing together a world-class team of experienced, cross-certified engineers and leading technology, FusionStorm is able to offer a complete range of remote services, support any platform, and service any location. FusionStorm is an Oracle Certified Solution Partner, Sun Microsystems' National iForceSM System Provider, Veritas Elite Vplus Partner and Cisco Premier Plus Partner. To learn more about FusionStorm visit www.fusionstorm.com or call 415-296-8670.

About Deep Nines Inc. DeepNines offers a scalable security platform for Global 2000 companies with a vertical market focus in education, government, telecommunications, energy and financial services. The DeepNines Security Edge PlatformT integrates intelligent firewall, intrusion prevention, best-of-breed secure content management, forensics and reporting. It operates outside the network infrastructure, improving organizations' security "deep into the nines." DeepNines' Security Edge Platform, the company's patent-pending security system, is a fully automated signature and behavior-based, intrusion prevention and traffic management system preventing known and unknown attacks from entering an organization's network. The Security Edge Platform runs on Solaris and Linux platforms from Sun Microsystems. To learn more about Deep Nines visit www.deepnines.com.