October 19, 2004

The Dark Side Joins AeA

DALLAS, TEXAS - The already well-rounded and dynamic AeA Texas Council team gets an infusion of seasoned leadership as they appoint Sue Dark to the position of vice chairperson. In this role, Sue will be an integral part of the AeA leadership team and a driving force within the Texas technology industry.

As founder of Dallas-based Deep Nines Technologies, Sue currently serves as the company's chief executive officer. Along with being an original Memorex employee, her 25-year background in technology includes participation with the instrumentation development team for the Apollo 11 and 12 groups at MIT-Lincoln Laboratories/USAF. In addition, while with Memorex, she worked with such clients as New England Telephone, ITT Sheraton, IDC and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. Sue's appointment places her in line to become AeA Texas board chair in October 2005.

"AeA offers so many opportunities for its members to become better educated and take a more active role in technology legislation," said Dark. "I consider it an honor to serve in a key role for our members. I look forward to this opportunity to give a little back to an organization that has done so much for the technology industry in Texas."

About AeA Advancing the business of technology, AeA is the nation's largest high-tech trade association. AeA's 1.8 million members and more than 3,000 companies represent the high-technology spectrum, from software, semiconductors, medical devices and computers to Internet technology, advanced electronics and telecommunications systems and services. With 17 regional U.S. councils and offices in Brussels and Beijing, AeA offers a unique global policy grassroots capability and a wide portfolio of valuable business services and products for the high-tech industry. AeA has been the accepted voice of the U.S. technology community since 1943. For more information, please visit www.aeanet.org.

"DeepNines is a company with a great vision and an ardent desire to innovate the security landscape," stated Binder. "This company has a bright future ­ their execution strategy, management team and partner relations are postured to capture a strong position. I'm looking forward to being a part of the DeepNines development and management teams and excited about providing leading security technology solutions in our identified industry markets."

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.