Counterpane Forms Security Associates Program With 12 Leading Security Products Vendors.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2000

Program's Goal is to Deliver Highest Levels Possible of

Network Security to Customers. Charter Members Include Cisco

Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Check Point.

Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., the leader in Managed Security Monitoring (MSM) services, today announced the formation of its Counterpane Security Associates (CSA) program. The program is geared toward delivering the most meaningful information to Counterpane for detecting and stopping unauthorized attacks and intrusions before customers' corporate assets are compromised. Through the program, Counterpane and the 12 charter members have agreed to share technical knowledge and expertise that facilitate and enhance Counterpane's MSM services. This includes information about newly-discovered vulnerabilities, design improvements, audit log formatting, documentation requirements, and product changes.

The program calls for members to work closely to establish tighter levels of integration between their security products and Counterpane's advanced 24x7 monitoring, analysis, and response services.

Security Associates Program Members

Membership in the Security Associates program is by invitation only based on a vendor's solid track record, industry leadership, and ability to provide reliable products that dovetail with the requirements of Counterpane's customers. The program was modeled after the relationship Counterpane developed with Cisco Systems while integrating the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System.

"Providing solutions to help customers secure their networks is a priority," says Joel McFarland, Intrusion Detection Product Manager at Cisco. "We think the Counterpane Security Associates Program will be important because it relies upon best-of-breed security solutions, including the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System, to deliver valuable e-Business services."

CSA program members listed below are leaders in their respective product categories: anti-virus, firewalls, virtual private networks, intrusion-detection, managed extranet services, as well as routers, workstations, servers, URL filtering and scanning. (Note to Editors: See the Addendum to this release for a brief description of each CSA program member and testimonials from their company executives.)

Aventail Corporation Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd. Cisco Systems Clicknet Security Technologies CyberSafe Corporation Hewlett-Packard Company Network Flight Recorder Network ICE Corporation Secure Computing Corporation Symantec Tripwire Security Systems, Inc. WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.

"HP is pleased to participate in Counterpane's Security Associates program," says Roberto Medrano, General Manager, Internet Security Solutions Division. "In the new e-services economy, it is critical that online transactions and activities be secured against unwanted intrusions, and that the privacy of individual consumers be protected. By joining CSA, we will have even more resources available through this collective industry effort to address the needs of today's demanding security environment."

Benefits to Shared Customers

"This program extends Counterpane's product-neutral, multi-vendor approach," says Bruce Schneier, Counterpane founder and CTO. "It ensures that Counterpane's services offer the broadest, deepest, and most effective product coverage. It also means that Security Associates members and Counterpane can now deliver comprehensive solutions and services (products, applications, system integration, and best practices) to help our mutual customers better protect online assets by alerting them to bona fide security problems and offering them superior remedy guidance."

"We see a growing customer interest in managed security monitoring and services," says Asheem Chandna, Vice-President of Business Development and Product Management for Check Point. "We are pleased to work with Counterpane, a Check Point OPSEC partner, to enable "best-of-breed" security and monitoring services for our joint customers."

About Counterpane

Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. was established in 1999 by entrepreneurial expert Tom Rowley and security technologist and author Bruce Schneier to address the critical need for increased levels of security services. Centered around a network of sophisticated Secure Operations Centers, staffed by expert security analysts, the Company provides 24x7 monitoring, as well as penetration detection and response. Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring services enable e-business to be conducted safely. The company is funded by Accel Partners, Bessemer Ventures, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Equity Fund. Headquarters are located at 3031 Tisch Way, 100 Plaza East in San Jose, California, USA. Phone: [phone], Fax: [phone], Website: www.counterpane.com.

Note to Editors: Counterpane is a trademark of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. All other companies, brands names or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Counterpane Security Associates Program Participants

AVENTAIL CORPORATION

"Our partnership with Counterpane gives our customers another valuable service as they rely on Aventail to extend their corporate resources to customers, suppliers, and remote employees. Counterpane's security services offer our customers additional assurance that vital company assets will be proactively monitored by a team of vigilant security experts. We look forward to our partnership with Counterpane."

-- Kiran Narsu, Vice President Business Development

Aventail is a foremost provider of Internet-based Business Partner Networks. The company serves more than 300 leading corporations, including half of the Fortune 10. Enterprises such as Aetna, Bear Stearns, DuPont, Hewlett-Packard, IBM GS, Kodak, Kraft, Rolls-Royce and Toyota rely on Aventail to provide the infrastructure for scalable business-to-business collaboration for business partners and employees. Aventail Corporation is a privately held company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. For more information on the company and its managed service, please contact the company directly at [phone], 877-AVENTAIL or [e-mail].

Media contact: Esther Shin Aventail Corporation Phone: [phone] [e-mail]

CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.

"We see a growing customer interest in managed security monitoring and services. We are pleased to work with Counterpane, a Check Point OPSEC partner, to enable "best-of-breed" security and monitoring services for our joint customers."

--Asheem Chandna, Vice-President of Business Development and Product Management

Media contact: Rebecca Ritter Public Relations Check Point Phone: [phone] [e-mail]

CISCO SYSTEMS

"Providing solutions to help customers secure their networks is a priority. We think the Counterpane Security Associates Program will be important because it relies upon best-of-breed security solutions, including the Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection System, to deliver valuable e-Business services.

--Joel McFarland, Intrusion Detection Product Manager

CLICKNET SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES

"Counterpane's monitoring services are an excellent compliment to entercept, ClickNet's proactive, anti-hacking technology. To effectively manage a company's security, it requires best of breed solutions like entercept that proactively prevent intruders from damaging corporate assets. entercept's proactive intrusion prevention, coupled with Counterpane's security monitoring expertise, enable customer's to focus on what they do best, run their core business."

-- Lou Ryan, CEO 

ClickNet Security Technologies is the premier provider of proactive, anti-hacking solutions to protect e-business servers and applications. Providing essential protection beyond the firewall, ClickNet's entercept products identify attacks and prevent access to e-server resources before any unauthorized transactions occur. The latest member of the entercept family is the Web Server Edition which offers unique protection for web servers and applications. Straightforward and quickly understood, the entercept family of products are easy to deploy and offer significant time savings in internet security management. ClickNet is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and can be reached by calling its world headquarters directly at 408-576-5900, toll free at 1-800-599-3200, 44-208-387-5500 for its European offices, or by visiting its web site at http://www.clicknet.com.

Media contact: Robin Matlock Sr. VP, Sales & Marketing ClickNet Phone: [phone] [e-mail]

CYBERSAFE CORPORATION

"CyberSafe manages all of an organization's transactional security requirements for fraud avoidance, intrusion detection, policy management, and auditing and analysis. Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring complements our services, offering our customers the best defense against hacker threats."

--Mark Allers, Vice President of Business Development and Managed Services 

CyberSafe Corporation 's comprehensive portfolio includes transaction services, managed services, and infrastructure solutions for the global 1000 marketplace. CyberSafe enables its customers to leverage the extraordinary power of the Internet with increased confidence and minimized risk by closing the gap between the risk and the opportunity. CyberSafe is headquartered in Issaquah, WA, and on the World Wide Web at http://www.cybersafe.com. For additional information, email [e-mail]. For additional information, email [e-mail].

Media contact: May Mitchell Director, Marketing Public Relations/Analysts Relations Phone: [phone] [e-mail]

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

"HP is pleased to participate in Counterpane's Security Associates program. In the new e-services economy, it is critical that online transactions and activities be secured against unwanted intrusions, and that the privacy of individual consumers be protected. By joining CSA, we will have even more resources available through this collective industry effort to address the needs of today's demanding security environment."

-- Roberto Medrano, General Manager, Internet Security Solutions Division

HP's Internet Security Solutions Division delivers best-in-class e-security products, solutions and services that enable enterprise, ISP and ASP Internet applications to deploy services more quickly, securely, smoothly and inexpensively. The HP Praesidium product portfolio includes trusted Web-server platforms (VirtualVault, WebEnforcer), Web access and authorization managers (DomainGuard), extranet Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and firewalls. Most Praesidium products run on HP, Sun and Microsoft(R) systems. The HP Global Security Practice contributes professional expertise to review systems and advise clients on the best products and services needed to secure their valuable technological infrastructures. More information can be found at http://www.hp.com/security.

Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to individuals and businesses through simple appliances, useful e-services and an Internet infrastructure that's always on. HP has 86,000 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

Media contact: Tom Palmer Managed Security Services HP - Internet Security Division Phone: [phone]

NETWORK FLIGHT RECORDER

"It's a great fit. NFR is dedicated to delivering leading mission-critical software products for network monitoring and intrusion detection, while Counterpane is dedicated to proactive monitoring of the security solutions that our customers have deployed at thousands of sites worldwide. The Counterpane Security Associates Program is designed to combine products and services to help our mutual customers protect valuable online assets. We're pleased to be a charter member of this program."

-- Jack Reis, CEO

NFR is a leading developer of intrusion detection, network traffic, and network analysis tools. The flexibility of the NFR software provides effective local and distributed misuse detection solutions for small, medium, and large environments. NFR's highly customizable technology is deployed at thousands of sites worldwide, including Fortune 500 firms, financial institutions, government, military and intelligence agencies. The Company offers its products through a worldwide network of resellers and solution providers. NFR news and company information can be found on The Bloomberg under the ticker symbol: 9022Z EQUITY and on the World Wide Web at http://www.nfr.net.

Media contact: Jack Reis CEO Network Flight Recorder Phone: [phone]

NETWORK ICE

"Combining the intrusion protection and alerting capabilities of our BlackICE and ICEcap tools with Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring services provides tremendous benefits our customers. They can now get broader and deeper protection than previously possible."

-- Greg Gilliom, CEO Network ICE

Founded in 1998 by a team of network analysis and security experts from Network General and Network Associates (Nasdaq: NETA), Network ICE has the largest installed base of intrusion detection systems in the world. Network ICE provides enterprise and consumer turn-key intrusion defense and security policy management solutions. Network ICE uses patent-pending technology to protect corporate and home users from hackers by detecting and blocking the attack, tracing the identity of the intruder and reporting the details of the attack. For more information, visit the Network ICE Web site at www.networkice.com.

Media contact: Kimberly Kupiecki A&R Partners Phone: [phone] [e-mail]

SECURE COMPUTING

Headquartered in San Jose, California, Secure Computing Corporation is a global leader in providing safe, secure extranets for e-business. Secure Computing solutions provide authentication, authorization, and secure network access. Secure Computing's worldwide partners and customer base are counted among the Fortune 50 in financial services, healthcare, telecom, communications, manufacturing, technology and Internet service providers, as well as some of the largest agencies of the United States government. For more information, contact Secure Computing at www.securecomputing.com.

SYMANTEC CORPORATION

"Counterpane's monitoring, combined with our leading enterprise virus protection products, improves the speed with which our customers can take effective preventive and corrective action."

-- Gary Warren, Senior Vice President of Symantec's Business Development

Symantec, a world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad range of content and network security solutions to individuals and enterprises. The company is a leading provider of virus protection, risk management, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote management and mobile code detection technologies to customers. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has worldwide operations in more than 33 countries.

Media contact: Genevieve Haldeman Group Manager, Corporate Communications Symantec Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone] Mobile: [phone] Page: 888-787-1024 [e-mail]

TRIPWIRE SECURITY SYSTEMS, INC.

"We are pleased to be a charter member of Counterpane's Security Associates program. Tripwire's data integrity and assurance software, used by e-commerce businesses and key government agencies, offers Counterpane an accurate baseline upon which to build intrusion detection and response decision procedures tailored to customers' specific security needs."

-- W. Wyatt Starnes, President and CEO

Tripwire, Inc. is the leading provider of integrity assessment security solutions for Global 3000 companies and e-business corporations as well as key government agencies. Tripwire software creates a critical information baseline for companies and organizations to ensure the integrity of their computer data. Tripwire customers include Intuit, AT&T, Ernst & Young and the U.S. House of Representatives. Tripwire is headquartered in Portland, Oregon with additional offices in Silicon Valley, California, as well as several international offices around the world. For more information about Tripwire, please visit our Web site at www.tripwire.com.

Media contact: Kerry Elliott Tripwire, Inc. Public Relations Manager Phone: [phone] [e-mail]

WATCHGUARD

"Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring is the ideal complement to our plug-and-play Firebox security appliances and LiveSecurity Service. Working together under this new CSA program enables Counterpane to fine-tune its services to the capabilities of our products and services. This, in turn, gives our customers award-winning firewall and VPN protection, plus comprehensive 24x7 monitoring, detection, and response capabilities through Counterpane."

-- Todd Hooper, Vice President of Business Development

WatchGuard (Nasdaq: WGRD) is a leader in Internet security solutions and a pioneer in the creation of the plug-and-play Internet security appliance - the signature red WatchGuard Firebox. With one of the broadest range of Internet security appliances available, WatchGuard offers solutions for large distributed enterprises, small- and mid-sized businesses and DSL, cable modem and ISDN users. Every WatchGuard system includes the innovative LiveSecurity Service, providing customers with continually up-to-date Internet security and VPN protection. WatchGuard works with over 50 service providers around the world that offer firewall and VPN services to organizations that choose to outsource their security management. For more information, call 206-521-8340 or visit www.watchguard.com http://www.watchguard.com.

Media contact: Frances Bigley WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. Phone: [phone] [e-mail]

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