ConSentry Networks Expands Executive Management Team to Meet Rapid Growth; LAN Security Leader Appoints Jim Buckley Chief Financial Officer.

MILPITAS, Calif. -- ConSentry Networks, a leading provider of secure networking solutions for LANs, today announced that finance veteran Jim Buckley is the company's new Chief Financial Officer. The new position is being created to guide ConSentry's meteoric growth within the rapidly expanding LAN security market.

With 28 years of finance experience, Buckley joins ConSentry after serving as CFO at Airespace where he was closely involved with the company's acquisition by Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO). Prior to Airespace, he was CFO with Commission Junction, a performance-based online marketing provider that was acquired by Value Click (Nasdaq:VCLK). He also served as CFO at CyberSource Corporation (Nasdaq:CYBS), a leading provider of risk management and electronic payment solutions for enterprises. Buckley also held the CFO position as Cygnus Solutions, an engineering software services company that merged with Red Hat, Inc. Previously, he held CFO positions with TeraStor Corporation, GET Manufacturing and Raster Graphics and prior to that was corporate controller with Pyramid Technology Corporation.

In his new position as ConSentry's CFO, Buckley will be responsible for managing the company's overall financial operations. "Over the course of his stellar career, Jim has been instrumental in four initial public offerings and over half-a-dozen mergers and acquisitions," said ConSentry CEO Tom Barsi. "We're extremely fortunate to have a CFO of his experience and caliber, especially at this critical growth juncture in ConSentry's lifecycle."

"I've been fortunate to provide financial counsel to a series of successful companies over the course of my career," Buckley said. "After conducting significant due diligence on ConSentry, this is a company with a superior management team, a truly breakthrough and defensible technology, and a clearly defined global market opportunity that points to the makings of a billion dollar company."

About ConSentry Networks

ConSentry Networks secures enterprise LANs with a new class of identity-based networking technology that is delivered at unprecedented price/performance levels. ConSentry's solution leverages its breakthrough, patent-pending silicon architecture to continuously identify all LAN traffic and enforce user and group policies to control access to authorized resources and applications at wire-speed, in real-time. Backed by blue-chip venture capital firms that include Accel Partners, INVESCO Private Capital and Sequoia Capital, ConSentry is headquartered in Milpitas, California. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.consentry.com.

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