ConSentry Networks Wins Best in Show Award for Innovation at Information Security Decisions Show.

MILPITAS, Calif. -- ConSentry Networks, a leading provider of secure LAN solutions, announced today that it won the Best of Show Award for Innovation from a small company at the Information Security Decisions (ISD) conference held in Chicago from October 18-20. The award recognizes that ConSentry's LANShield Switch takes an interesting approach to solving a common security challenge Co how to protect access to critical business data and services while supporting the basic LAN services for guests that today's business relationships demand. In the past several months, ConSentry has also won the Best of Interop Las Vegas and Best of Interop Tokyo awards in the infrastructure and security categories and the 2006 Techworld Award for the most Innovative Product of the Year.

ConSentry's winning entry focused on its pioneering concept of the secure switch. The company's LANShield Switch is the only security platform to combine the capabilities of Network Admission Control (NAC), visibility, identity-based control, and threat control into a single platform that deploys transparently in the network and maintains LAN-speed throughout. This performance is enabled by a unique silicon architecture; ConSentry has developed custom hardware, including a 128-core CPU and two programmable ASICs, that enable the company to deliver full LAN security in a single simple, high-performance, cost-effective platform. ConSentry's win was decided by the votes of ISD show attendees, analysts from The Burton Group, and editors of Information Security Magazine.

"Winning such an important industry award gives us a high profile not just among attendees but also in the industry at large," said Tom Barsi, ConSentry Networks' president and CEO. "The fact that the award is for innovation emphasizes the value of our new approach to network security. Keeping the bad guys out is no longer sufficient; today, IT needs a way to secure the network from within."

Information Security Decisions is the only independent security conference to deliver vendor-neutral expertise for proactive security professionals. At the conference, qualified security professionals deliver how-to, "in-the-trenches" technical insight that attendees can implement at their own companies. Speakers include CEOs from leading companies as well as the industry's top independent experts.

About ConSentry Networks

ConSentry Networks delivers comprehensive LAN security, enabling businesses to protect their corporate assets, ensure continuity of operations, and dramatically reduce the risk of security breaches. ConSentry enables this pervasive security while lowering IT's cost of operations through its flexible, high-performance platform powered by ground-breaking custom silicon and revolutionary LAN security software. Backed by blue-chip venture capital firms that include Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, INVESCO Private Capital, and Sequoia Capital, ConSentry is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

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