April 29, 2003

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NetWorld+Interop 2003, Las Vegas, NV - BorderWare, DeepNines, and Sourcefire today announced the availability of three new security appliances based on the SunT platform. Following the momentum built by Sun's recent security announcements with Check Point and Symantec, this community of appliances will address email security, intrusion prevention, and intrusion management while reducing costs of deploying security within the enterprise.

"These pre-tested and configured appliances demonstrate our comittment to resolve complex problems for customers while reducing their cost," said Manish Bhuptani, director, Market Development at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "These out-of-the-box security solutions meet security needs for ease of deployment, price-performance and lower total cost of ownership for large and small enterprises."

Sun and its iForce partners are working together to provide an ecosystem of standards-based security appliances that will meet the growing demand for integrated solutions. Sun's vision of a security appliance combines best-in-class software, a hardened operating system that is pre-installed, pre-tested and optimized with appropriate drivers and network interface cards for the Sun platform. The appliance makes it easy for customers to buy a complete integrated solution.

iForceT Mail Firewall Appliance, Powered by Sun and Borderware: "The Borderware spam filtering technology provides a means for us to still receive emails from domains formerly blocked by black hole lists, a welcome step up from traditional Spam blocking methodology!" says Ike Mast, assistant director of IT for The Navigators, Colorado. "Combining Sun and BorderWare provides an appropriate level of function and stability for our environment, reduces Spam and viruses on the network and enables our people to be more productive."

"Borderware is pleased to partner with Sun to deliver an enterprise-class email firewall appliance to protect corporate networks from unwanted spam by addressing email security and policy management at the boundary of the network," said Chris Blask, vice president Marketing at Borderware. "iForce Mail Firewall Appliance, Powered by Sun and Borderware, is a key component in corporate email security strategy, provides assurance to protect companies from productivity loss, bandwidth waste, and network downtime.

iForceT Intrusion Management Appliance, Powered by Sun and DeepNines: "Sleuth9 gives the enterprise customer the ability to proactively mitigate attacks and malicious behavior while protecting client and partner web traffic," said Chip Wagner, EVP of Marconi Wireless. "Integrating Sleuth9 with the Sun platform gave us a true out-of-the-box, plug and play security solution."

"By combining a hardened Solaris OS with DeepNines' attack mitigation, intrusion prevention and anti-virus functionality into a single appliance that sits in front of the router, DeepNines can offer enterprise customers an integrated security platform that runs on SPARC-based servers and provides organizations with multiple layers of protection," said Dan Jackson, president and COO at DeepNines. "DeepNines is pleased to partner with Sun and deliver an integrated solution to protect customers from attacks at all points of the network."

iForceT Intrusion Management Appliance, Powered by Sun and Sourcefire: "The iForce Intrusion Management Appliance provides users with integrated data management to proactively defend against network threats and reduce overall total cost of ownership," said Wayne Jackson, CEO of Sourcefire. "We are thrilled to be working with Sun to provide defense in depth solutions for network security and monitoring."

Availability and Support These security appliances are scheduled to initially be available and supported in North America in May 2003. The iForce Appliances will be integrated and distributed by channel distribution partners such as, GE Access, Arrow Electronics' MOCA division and other resellers.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.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.