ADVISORY/ Leading Security Expert Available to Discuss W32.Nimda Worm.

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Coming on the heels of both warnings by the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center about potential increases in hacking activity and the outbreak of Code Red, a new security breach called "W32.Nimda" was detected on Tuesday, September 18. Nimda can infect organizations in three ways: through Web browsers, via email or by targeting Web servers directly. Nimda leverages many well known Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) vulnerabilities, which are buffer overflow based in the same way that Code Red was.

"With so many new and evolving information security threats, organizations have to be asking themselves whether or not their security infrastructure can withstand the threats posed by the unknown security attack," said Ted Doty, director of product marketing at OKENA(TM). "Traditional approaches to information security are not able to stop new attacks until after the damage has been done. The security industry has been working very hard and with great success to deliver to market new solutions that can prevent intrusions, such as Nimda, from executing. As these new solutions become more widely adopted, fewer organizations will have to suffer the consequences of the unknown security threat."

Ted Doty, director of product marketing at OKENA, has more than 17 years of experience in the security industry and is available to comment about the ways in which organizations can prevent against new and evolving Internet security threats. With computer-related security attacks increasing and evolving, OKENA was founded to proactively preserve the operational integrity of applications and host systems. OKENA's flagship product, StormWatch(TM), provides uncompromising intrusion detection and prevention security software for the enterprise - StormWatch prevents intrusions from executing. StormWatch's ability to proactively repel new attacks directly on the servers and desktops to be protected makes StormWatch a central component to a customer's security policy. StormWatch is an entirely new stand-alone layer of defense, one that does not burden IT departments with the continual management of signature updates.

If you would like to speak with Ted Doty about the recent Nimda worm and/or new developments in technology to protect against such threats, please call Meghan Fitzgerald at Schwartz Communications, [phone] or [e-mail].