Blue Lane Technologies Named ''Cool Vendor'' by Leading Analyst Firm; Vendors Selected for the ''Cool Vendor Report'' Are Innovative, Impactful and Intriguing.

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Blue Lane(TM) Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry's first inline patch proxy for enterprise servers, has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the "Cool Vendors in Security and Privacy, 2006 Report" issued March 11th by Gartner, Inc. and authored by Amrit T. Williams, et al.

Blue Lane was listed in the Gartner Report segment that discusses vulnerability management as a key security program for improving an organization's security posture. According to the report, many companies respond to critical vulnerabilities, especially those involving active exploit code being used "in the wild," by attempting to patch systems as quickly as possible. But rapid patching can disrupt operations. Gartner has advised companies to implement and use shielding controls in response to critical security events, as opposed to rapid patching.

Blue Lane Technologies' PatchPoint(TM) system provides an in-line patch proxy appliance for critical server operating systems, database and enterprise applications. The appliance replicates the characteristics of the patch, in-line, as part of the client/server transaction, patching the server without requiring deployment of the patch or an agent on the servers. Up to 100 PatchPoint appliances can be centrally managed through a scalable enterprise manager appliance. With its vulnerability and patch-centric view, the technology sits adjacent to patch management and intrusion prevention system (IPS) capabilities and is a complementary control, compared with an alternative solution.

"Our PatchPoint system gives enterprises the ability to immediately protect key business applications from the risks of unpatched software vulnerabilities while minimizing the potential for operational downtime resulting from vendor patches," said Fred Kost, vice president of product marketing. "We believe our selection is recognition that our PatchPoint system is an important and innovative solution to the patching dilemma caused by these critical vulnerabilities."

Blue Lane's PatchPoint system solves the patching dilemma: immediately mitigating software vulnerabilities and eliminating the need to rapidly install the vendor security patch. Instead of rapidly deploying critical patches directly on servers without the appropriate time needed to test and which often cannot be successfully recovered or restored if there is an unforeseen issue, enterprises can simply point, click and apply the same mitigation action at the network level.

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About Blue Lane Technologies, Inc.

Blue Lane provides the industry's first inline patch proxy for enterprise servers that instantly fixes application specific vulnerabilities at the root cause by checking for the same conditions and applying the same corrective action as the software vendor security patch. Solving the dilemma of "patch now or patch later," PatchPoint(TM) instantly secures critical applications and preserves the uptime of the business while eliminating the cost and risks associated with unscheduled patching. Founded in 2002, Blue Lane is headquartered in Cupertino, Calif. For more information, contact the company at www.bluelane.com