April 14, 2003

Deepnines launches release 3.5 of its Sleuth9 Security SystemT at RSA conference

DALLAS, TEXAS - DeepNinesT Technologies, a leading enterprise network security company, today announced the official release of The Sleuth9 Security System Version 3.5. Sleuth9T 3.5 is a software-based network attack mitigation, intrusion prevention and anti-virus solution that sits inline, invisible, in front of the router and automatically prevents cyber attacks from entering or leaving a network. The official launch of Sleuth9 3.5 took place today in Booth #1507 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA.

DeepNines has integrated the McAfee® Olympus anti-virus scanning engine into the Sleuth9 Security System. By integrating anti-virus protection outside of the perimeter of the network, Sleuth9 is able to stop viruses before they can attack a computing device inside the network.

"We are extremely excited about this release. It truly changes the scope of what intrusion prevention truly means," said Dan Jackson, president of DeepNines Technologies. "To provide full-proof intrusion prevention, a solution must sit in front of the router and have multi-method detection functionality to stop the complex blended attacks that are prevalent today. Sleuth9 does this and more. "

Sleuth9 evaluates 100% of network traffic, both ingress and egress, at the packet level, to determine what network traffic is valid and what is malicious. With Sleuth9, intrusion prevention and anti-virus updates are automatic, providing companies with superior protection while saving them a significant amount of time and resources. The latest release also includes new security features and functionality designed to stop known and unknown blended attacks including DoS, DDoS, port scans, and propagating attacks like Trojan horses, viruses and worms from entering or leaving networks.

"By combining attack mitigation, intrusion prevention and anti-virus protection in front of the router, DeepNines provides customers with multiple layers of protection," said Sue Dark, CEO. "Sleuth9 3.5 represents our unyielding commitment to protect customers from the threat of viruses and other forms of malicious code at all points of the network."

Version 3.5 combines signature, protocol and traffic anomaly detection with anti-virus detection into a single integrated solution. Only The Sleuth9 Security System utilizes heuristics and proprietary behavior monitoring to block and control malicious traffic, while allowing good traffic to pass.

Sleuth9 is the ideal attack mitigation, intrusion prevention and anti-virus software solution for Global 2000 companies and organizations in the healthcare, financial services, government, education, technology, manufacturing, retail, ASP and MSP sectors.

System Requirements The Sleuth9 Security System runs on any Solaris 8 (SPARC) Sun UltraSPARC machine with 2 processors, 4 MB of L2 Cache Memory, 3 Sun Fast Ethernet Network Interface Cards, and 2 GB RAM memory.

Availability The Sleuth9 Security System can be purchased through DeepNines Field Sales Team or Authorized Sun Resellers. Call 214-273-6996 or contact sales@deepnines.com for more information.

Contact Information For more information regarding this announcement contact James F. O'Gara at 214-616-6226 or jogara@itsonmessage.com

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.