October 28, 2003

Media Alert

DALLAS, TEXAS - DeepNines(TM) Technologies, a leading enterprise network security company and Northrop Grumman vendor partner, will demonstrate its Sleuth9 technology at the Northrop Grumman Information Technology Customer Trade Shows on October 29th and November 5th, 2003..

The Sleuth9(TM); Security System is a fully integrated, best of breed intrusion prevention and anti-virus software solution that sits in front of the router and instantly stops DoS, DDoS, port scans, and propagating attacks like Trojan horses, viruses and worms from entering or leaving a network. Sleuth9 evaluates 100% of the 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 superior protection while saving a significant amount of time and resources.

Media or analysts interested in scheduling a briefing with DeepNines executives should contact Jim O'Gara at jogara@itsonmessage.com or 972-931-3444.

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.