Casey's General Stores Repels Threat of Network Security Attacks with NitroSecurity Intrusion Prevention and Security Management Solutions; Fortune 1000 Company Ahead of the Curve on PCI Compliance with NitroSecurity Solutions.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- NitroSecurity, a provider of high performance and scalable enterprise security solutions, today announced that Casey's General Stores, Inc. (Nasdaq: CASY) is currently leveraging its NitroGuard IPS and NitroView Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) solutions to successfully secure its infrastructure and safeguard its business from the increasing threat of network security attacks. With NitroSecurity, the company is also satisfying several of the mandates required for the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard - the card industry's single approach to safeguarding sensitive data for all major credit card brands. As a result, Casey's is able to maintain operations with consistent application performance and availability, and reduce the expense of time and resources spent on network downtime as a result of security breaches - while addressing several of the dozen PCI compliance mandates.

Securing the infrastructure has become a more critical part of any networked system, as billions of dollars in damages to organizations occur annually through security breaches on networks already protected by firewalls, anti-virus systems, and intrusion detection services. These breaches are perpetrated by sophisticated cyber-criminals to whom conventional network security devices present no effective protection, with crimes ranging from simple user abuse and harassment to the destruction of a corporation's business data, intellectual property, and brand identity. In 2006, several incidents of identity fraud and loss of sensitive customer data have taken place at major retailers, highlighting the continued growth of security attacks - and at the same time - the obligation of each corporation to protect consumer information.

Headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa, Casey's (#696 on the Fortune 1000), which owns and operates nearly 1,400 convenience stores in nine Midwestern states, sought a solution to enhance its existing security infrastructure and provide instantaneous response to protect critical on-line assets from both external and internal cyber exploits. After careful evaluation of several leading products - including those available from Cisco and McAfee - Casey's chose NitroSecurity solutions.

"NitroSecurity's packet analysis, monitoring and reporting is hands-down the best in the industry," said Dan Greenley, Information Systems, Casey's General Stores, Inc. "NitroView and NitroGuard have enabled us to account for every packet entering our internal network from an untrusted network - a must for today's networks."

Utilizing a sophisticated, high-performance aggregation and correlation engine, NitroGuard IPS and NitroView ESM actively detects, analyzes and protects Casey's infrastructure against the threat of network security attacks. Combined, NitroGuard and NitroView use a blend of signature, advanced anomaly detection and high performance security event management and reporting to identify security threats from viruses, worms, Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, spyware, and other forms of malware within the network, as well as isolate anomalous network activity before problems can occur.

As a merchant that processes more than six million Visa transactions per year, Casey's is also charged with meeting the Level 1 security standard of PCI compliance. The program is required of all merchants and service providers that store, process, or transmit Visa, Mastercard, AMEX and Discover cardholder data - and applies to all payment channels including retail (brick-and-mortar), mail/telephone order, and e-commerce. To maintain compliance, Casey's must ensure that its data is secure, reported on in great detail, and meet more stringent 'real-time' requirements.

"NitroSecurity solutions have proven to be invaluable for satisfying several of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards. Its unbelievably fast query of massive amounts of data greatly simplifies the packet analysis process and easily generates user-friendly reports for management review," added Greenley.

"It is extremely encouraging that Casey's General Stores is experiencing tremendous success with NitroSecurity solutions, especially considering today's dual-challenges of sophisticated network attacks and the stringent mandate of PCI compliance," said Frank Hayes, Vice President of Marketing, NitroSecurity. "With the most effective and affordable network intrusion prevention and enterprise security management solutions available today, NitroSecurity has shown again that it is ideally suited for protecting environments which require real-time data security and fast reaction to the multitude of threats facing today's corporate networks."

About NitroSecurity

Leveraging its patented high performance security event aggregation and correlation engine to protect the internal network infrastructure in enterprises of various size and scope, NitroSecurity solutions provide deeper visibility for in-depth network protection. NitroSecurity's highly scalable line of products provides intrusion prevention, network flow analysis, and security event management for enterprises looking to secure their networks with real-time threat mitigation without business disruption. Headquartered in Portsmouth, NH, NitroSecurity's customer base includes more than 300 global organizations in areas such as healthcare, education, financial services, government, retail/hospitality, and managed services. For more information, please visit www.nitrosecurity.com.