NFR Security Wins IT Week Magazine's 2006 Editors Choice Award for its Sentivist(R) Intrusion Prevention System; Editors point to unique features, a user-friendly and low cost system as reasons for winning top honors.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- NFR Security, Inc., the leader in Real-Time Threat Protection(TM), today announced that the company's intrusion prevention system, Sentivist(R) 5.0, has won IT Week Magazine's 2006 Editors Choice Award with a five out of five star rating. IT Week Magazine editors cited outstanding performance, unique technology features such as Dynamic Shielding Architecture (DSA) and Confidence Indexing, low-cost pricing and highly responsive 24x7 customer service as reasons for awarding NFR Security their top product review honors.

"Recognition from industry editors such as this continues to prove what customers are telling us - our IPS technology is the best in its class," said Andre Yee, NFR Security's President and CEO. "This award continues to add to the many accolades that we have already received for our Sentivist 5.0 product, including recently winning our second "Hot Pick" award from Information Security Magazine, and also receiving high scores in technical reviews from industry publications such as SC Magazine, Secure Enterprise and InfoWorld."

Released in November 2005, Sentivist 5.0 is a comprehensive intrusion prevention system that fuses powerful security technologies together including:

--Dynamic Shielding Architecture - Aware, Adaptive and Actionable security that automatically recognizes stealth attack threat points - such as unsanctioned network changes, and critical vulnerabilities - and dynamically protects those threat points from the inevitable attacks.

--Network Node Intelligence Information - Sentivist integrates, correlates and graphically displays threat point information. The information can be ranked by vulnerability, by severity, by impact, by application - virtually any structure that is important and useful.

--Situational Awareness and Control - Real-time, graphical threat point and attack information give a broad view of network vulnerabilities and attack events. Simple point and click actions allow focus on specific events to monitor the source's activity and potentially take action.

--High Performance Protection - Smart Sensors offer data rate ranges from 20Mbps to 10Gbps. Enterprise Series Smart Sensors offer port density, high availability features and plug-in data rate expandability, guaranteeing data rate expansion without forklift upgrades.

--Layers of Security - Sentivist Smart Sensors deliver IDS, IPS, Firewall, Dynamic Shielding, and protection for IM, VoIP, among others, all in one appliance and managed from a single user interface.

--IPv6 Support - NFR Security is at the forefront for this important function with full support since 2002.

"This IT Week 5-Star Award is yet another validation that our Sentivist Real Time Threat Protection System and our Dynamic Shielding vision is setting a new standard in enterprise network security," said Darrell Burkey, Director of Product Management of NFR Security. "We are honored that IT Week recognizes our drive and innovation to deliver network security products that make our customers' networks more secure while simplifying the job of managing their security."

NFR Security has also experienced unprecedented attention since announcing a money-back guarantee on all of its products through their "No Failure Rights" program. The only IPS vendor in the industry to offer a 100% money-back guarantee to any customer for any of its products, NFR Security is also one of only two IPS vendors world-wide that offers IPV6 protection for federal agencies needing to meet the government mandate by 2008.

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About NFR Security, Inc.

NFR Security is the leading provider of Real-Time Threat Protection systems that secure business networks against the four primary threat points of today - automated malware, information leakage, vulnerability windows and unsanctioned network changes. The company's award-winning Sentivist(R) security solution uniquely combines an array of powerful features including a hybrid detection engine, inline prevention, a full functional firewall, and the Dynamic Shielding Architecture(TM), NFR Security's core technology that uses situational intelligence to dynamically protect network services and assets against comprise, to deliver highly sought-after piece-of-mind security. For performance level coverage of 20 megabits per second to 10 Gigabits per second, NFR Security serve customers worldwide in corporate enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions through an extensive worldwide network of channel partners and direct sales. NFR Security is headquartered in Rockville, MD. Additional information about NFR Security can be found at www.nfr.com or by calling 1-800-234-4079.