CylantSecure 3.0 Named `Best Security Solution' Behavioral Server Security System Beats Novell and Others to Win Product Excellence Award at LinuxWorld Expo.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

LinuxWorld New York 2004

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 2004

Acknowledging the significance of a security solution that makes computer servers and their software literally impervious to attacks, technology experts named CylantSecure 3.0 "Best Security Solution" at the high tech industry's LinuxWorld Expo Product Excellence Awards in New York this week. It is the second time CylantSecure, created by software developer Cylant Inc., has bested industry giants such as Novell to garner the honor.

"I think the judges realized that CylantSecure's kernel-based behavioral prevention model is the future of computer server security," said Terry Stuart, Cylant's vice president of products and services. "Because it becomes part of the computer operating system and monitors normal activity at incredibly detailed levels, it's impossible to bypass it to attack vulnerable systems or exploit security holes in applications."

CylantSecure 3.0 works by embedding thousands of "sensors" within the heart of a server's operating system and monitoring nearly every aspect of the system's activity to establish a model for "normal" behavior for that computer. When the system displays even a tiny amount of unusual behavior, whether from an attack on the system directly or from an attempted exploit of a known security bug in an application running on the server, the abnormal activity is brought to a halt nearly instantaneously.

Because the system is integrated within the operating system itself and monitors server behavior instead of known patterns of attacks from the outside world, CylantSecure, unlike current intrusion prevention systems, can't be bypassed or defeated with unknown patterns or new attacks.

"CylantSecure quite literally makes a server unhackable," Stuart said. "You can't go around it because it's built into the operating system. You can't overwhelm it because it operates at nanosecond speeds and shuts you down instantly. And you can't fool it because it knows the system's normal behavior down to the tiniest detail. Even minute changes in system behavior don't go unnoticed. Best of all, the system defends itself; there's no human intervention required."

Beyond autonomous behavioral intrusion prevention, CylantSecure 3.0 also provides a robust management console to manage, monitor and report server security, as well as features that allow it to work with popular enterprise management systems such as IBM Tivoli, HP OpenView and CA UniCenter. For more information on CylantSecure 3.0 visit the Cylant Web site at: www.cylant.com.

About Cylant

Cylant develops software and technologies to ensure the security and reliability of critical network systems and servers. The company holds a number of pending patents and its technologies are used in NASA's space shuttle program and Jet Propulsion Labs, as well as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The company has headquarters in Boston and maintains research and development facilities in Moscow, Idaho. For more information regarding Cylant or its products, please contact: Cylant Inc., 5325 Madison Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10021; e-mail: [e-mail]; Web: www.cylant.com.