Caritas Christi Protects its Online Network from Insider Threat With Groundbreaking Intrusic Security Software.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2004

Healthcare Provider Takes Action to Proactively Combat

Growing Industry Problem

Intrusic, the first and only security software company to specifically target the insider threat, today announced that Caritas Christi has fully deployed Zephon, Intrusic's groundbreaking software to locate and track crackers and other intruders who quietly break into networks to steal, spy or disrupt.

Caritas Christi, a Massachusetts-based healthcare system, runs six hospitals including St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston and Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton. Caritas Christi's internal network stores medical records and other mission critical information.

"Current technologies are similar to locks and alarms," said John P. Burke, CIO of Caritas Christi. "They are great at securing your network against the basic cracker, but they are powerless to stop the professional, who will stop at nothing to find a way into your network. Zephon is the only product that can give me the comfort of knowing that all of these silent intruders can be found, removed and prosecuted."

Gartner Group recently identified the insider threat--crackers, thieves, rogue employees and industrial spies--as one of the biggest threats facing CIOs and CSOs who are responsible for protecting their enterprise networks. These hidden intruders can strike at the heart of a company or organization and cause irreparable and inestimable damage to an enterprise's core assets.

Intrusic, which launched Zephon at the RSA Conference in San Francisco last month, has seen a tremendous demand for Zephon from private enterprises in the retail, healthcare, financial services and defense sectors.

"We're excited by the momentum we've experienced since publicly launching the company," said Bruce Linton, CEO of Intrusic. "Caritas Christi is one of the most forward thinking companies in the healthcare industry. That they trust us with securing their internal network attests to the value that Intrusic brings to the security market. Caritas Christi is taking proactive steps towards protecting their patients, partners, and employees from the insider threat."

Zephon is based on the concept of the "physics of networks," a theory that legitimate communication between systems, applications, users and networks is grounded in fundamental laws that are broken when an intruder breaks in under disguise. Although these malicious users try to cover their tracks, their illicit use of the network changes the way components interact. Zephon is the only product currently in the market that can find these changes and track them back to the source.

About Zephon

Zephon is a software solution that copies traffic from the internal network and then deploys sophisticated, corollary analysis to determine if host systems have been compromised. The result of the analysis is a complete, easy to understand assessment of the nature, scope and extent of a compromise providing companies with all of the tools necessary to prevent damage to the business. Because it operates in near real-time, Zephon is the only product capable of detecting the dangerous action of "sleeper cells" which employ techniques such as stateless attacks - commonly regarded as the stealthiest way in and out of an organization's network.

Zephon is commercially available now. Pricing is set on a per-server licensing fee. For more information, contact Intrusic at [e-mail].

About Intrusic

Intrusic, Inc., based in Waltham, Mass., was founded by a group of security experts in 2002 to create solution to one of the most insidious threats to global networks, the "Insider Threat." The real danger to enterprises, organizations and governments goes beyond perimeter attacks, but to unauthorized intruders already inside networks engaging in "noiseless action," the execution of internal espionage. Intrusic's world-class executive team has developed Zephon, a ground-breaking solution to identify compromised networks and map the full extent of the breach by providing full forensics. For more information visit us at www.intrusic.com.