Cadre Receives Complete Solution Partner Award.

CINCINNATI -- Cadre, a Leading Provider of Information Security Solutions, Announces That it has Received the Prestigious Award From Check Point

Cadre, a leading provider of information security solutions, announced today that it has been named the 2003 Complete Solution Partner Award winner for the Great Lakes region by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, at the Check Point Experience Seminar Series 2004 Partner Event & OPSEC(TM) (Open Platform for Security) Expo, held in New Orleans, Louisiana. This award comes on the heels of Cadre's achieving Platinum Partner status with Check Point.

Check Point Experience, an annual partner event held in several locations around the world, provides partners with all the tools necessary to create a custom security framework that suits the varying needs of end-users. For more information on Check Point Experience, please visit http://www.checkpoint.com/experience/index.html.

"We view this award as recognition of our commitment to our customers, our partners, and to our employee-owners," said Sandra Laney, Chairman and CEO of Cadre. "We have a long-standing partnership with Check Point and working together, we have helped our customers throughout the Midwest and beyond harness the power of the Internet."

Steven Snider, president of Cadre, said, "Sandy and I are tremendously proud of everyone on the Cadre team. Our engineers, trainers, licensing team, sales team, and support staff dedicate themselves each day to bringing the best value possible to our customers with Check Point's security solutions." Snider went on to say that, "None of this could have been achieved without our partnership with Check Point. Their array of security solutions allows us to bring value to our customers and help them deploy global, secure networks."

"Cadre has demonstrated their commitment to delivering Check Point's intelligent security solutions by achieving exemplary year-over-year sales growth," said Peter Baumann, vice president of channel operations for Check Point Software Technologies. "Our mutual customers in the Great Lakes region can rest assured that they will achieve their unique security goals by relying on Cadre for security expertise and Check Point for technological innovation."

Sandra Laney also commented, "2003 was a very successful year for Cadre and our customers. More important, however, is the future. Year to date, we have grown our business approximately 56% over 2003, and we are very excited about our relationship with Check Point and generating revenues through their expanded Internal and Web security product lines."

ABOUT CADRE:

Cadre is a Cincinnati-based, information security solutions provider specializing in the sale, installation, support, training, and assessment of network security systems. Cadre services both the Fortune 1000 and the middle markets and has extensive experience with financial, manufacturing, and health care organizations. Cadre has operations in Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Detroit, Chicago, Charleston, Milwaukee, and Cleveland. More information is available at www.cadre.net.