Captus Networks Announces New Turnkey Unified Management Solution for Its CaptIO Network Security Devices.

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LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2001

CaptCC(TM) Global Administrator Enables Service Providers and

Managed Security Providers to Easily Offer

Value-Added Customer Services

Captus Networks, the world leader in protecting against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, today announced the CaptCC Global Administrator, a secure, Web-based management solution for managing multiple CaptIO(TM) Network Security Devices. The CaptCC device builds on the strengths of Captus' Traffic Restriction and Profiling (TRaP) Technology(TM) for mitigating Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks by centralizing all management, administration, configuration, and monitoring activities. The CaptCC solution enables new services, insures the highest reliability and assures lower operating costs for service providers and large enterprise data centers.

"Service Providers, colocation facilities and enterprises need to be able to both neutralize new security threats and quickly offer these new services to their customers or internal groups. To meet the needs of these complex security environments, network administrators must have the right tools to manage multiple policies efficiently and cost-effectively," said Richard G. Helgeson, CEO and president of Captus Networks. "The CaptCC provides centralized consolidated management capabilities that enable a single security manager to monitor dozens of service customers, and to easily navigate, view and modify each individual customer's unique security requirements. As a result, service providers and corporate IT departments can gain the flexibility and scalability to serve a broader customer base, and they can achieve a dramatic reduction in operating personnel costs."

Secure Configuration and Management

The CaptCC device is tightly integrated with the CaptIO network security devices allowing network administrators to quickly integrate DoS and DDoS mitigation measures into their networks. Using a hierarchical structure, the CaptCC device provides unlimited customization of offerings from devices down to individual interfaces. Customers can have individualized, secure access to their services for monitoring, configuration or analysis.

The standalone design of the CaptCC device allows it to be easily integrated into any management platform, helping reduce operating expenses for Network Operations Centers (NOC) and IT managers. The integrated system hardware and Web-interface allows fail-safe integration as well as single terminal access with existing customer system management platforms, regardless of OS platform. Integrated alarm management is enabled via both SNMP gets and traps. The CaptCC device automates device discovery, clock synchronization, and remote notification. Environmental requirements are minimized with the CaptCC's small, one rack unit (1 RU) form factor of a standard 19-inch rack.

The CaptCC device also extends the High Availability (HA) CaptIO architecture by providing management services to both remotely monitor device status and enable disaster configuration and recovery. The CaptCC device automatically manages the current configurations of the CaptIO devices under its control so that they can be archived for recovery. Software releases and updates are centrally distributed and maintained, allowing easy updates to devices.

Additional Product Features

-- Customer Network Management. Customers can set their own unique security
policies for CaptIO interfaces or groups of interfaces.

-- Configuration management. These include automatic "discovery" of CaptIO
devices -- which can be linked to one or more CaptCC global administrators --
and backup and restore of CaptIO device configurations.

-- Status monitoring. These include status of every interface, traffic
throughput and error tracking, active management connections, and the
active/standby status of CaptIO devices paired in a High Availability
configuration.

Availability

The CaptCC Global Administrator will be available in July 2001.

Captus Networks

Captus Networks Corp. is an innovative, privately held company that designs, manufactures and markets integrated hardware and software security devices. As the leader in Denial of Service prevention, Captus Networks' vision is to be the preeminent supplier of high performance, network security devices and services for the e-business marketplace. The company's executive offices are located in Woodland, Calif., near Sacramento. Captus Networks is funded by leading venture capital firms such as GMS Capital Partners, L.P. and St. Paul Venture Capital. Captus Networks can be contacted on the World Wide Web at www.captusnetworks.com or by calling (877) 9-CAPTUS.

CaptIO, CaptCC, and TRaP Technology are trademarks of Captus Networks. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.

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