OKENA Announces ``Global Alliance Network'' Partner Program; OKENA Intrusion Prevention Solutions Bolster Partner Technology to Prevent New Attacks.

Business/Technology Editors

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 2002

Offers a Continued Services Revenue Stream

for Solution Providers and Consultants

OKENA(TM), Inc., the leading developer of intrusion prevention software, today announced its Global Alliance Network partner program. The Global Alliance Network brings together consultants, solution providers, system integrators, managed security service providers and technology vendors to deliver unique, intrusion prevention solutions. The Program includes 25 charter members in the Global Alliance Network, from Unisys Corporation to netForensics and Greenwich Technology Partners, who are already working with OKENA to extend the power of StormWatch(TM) and StormFront(TM) intrusion prevention to their own customer base.

"Nimda, Code Red and other recent attacks have spurred demand for preventive security that can stop new attacks from causing damage," said John Noonan, vice president of business development at OKENA. "This demand has created an opportunity for system integrators and consulting firms to leverage OKENA's application-centric security technology to protect their customers' networks."

OKENA StormWatch is the definitive standard for intrusion prevention software. StormWatch provides a level of security and scalability against new attacks that far exceeds the capability of traditional attack-centric signature approaches. The StormWatch out-of-the-box security policies protect applications like Microsoft IIS, SQL Server, Office, Instant Messenger as well as generic desktops and servers. In addition to the out-of-the-box policies, OKENA offers StormFront(TM), which is designed to secure any application running on desktops or servers. OKENA StormFront is a companion product to StormWatch that analyzes the behavior of critical business applications and then generates secure operating policies for them that plug into StormWatch. Both products are built to act in unison within StormSystem(TM), a system of highly integrated products acting in unison to protect applications from new and evolving threats. Powered by OKENA's INCORE(TM) architecture, StormSystem delivers complete intrusion prevention for any application.

"Today's attacks are constantly evolving, rendering individual, reactive approaches to security obsolete," said Steve Hutchens, director, Information Security Solutions at Unisys. "Partnering with OKENA expands our service offerings, giving us additional capability to protect our clients from new attacks. Capitalizing on Unisys expertise in integrating advanced security solutions, we make OKENA's proven intrusion prevention technology part of our proactive approach to minimizing risk by employing advanced tools that help organizations build and maintain a secure, high-performance business infrastructure." Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company whose 39,000 people help clients in more than 100 countries utilize technology to seize opportunities, overcome challenges and succeed in the global economy. Information about Unisys is available online at www.unisys.com.

Benefits of the OKENA Global Alliance Network

Partners can leverage the program to build service practices around OKENA's products and technology. In addition to generating revenue, expanding customer base and developing future avenues of growth, the program's true value lies in the ability to offer customers the latest information security technology breakthrough -- the ability to prevent new intrusions even before they have been identified and analyzed.

OKENA's breakthrough INCORE product architecture correlates file, network, registry and COM functions in order to define and enforce application behavior. These application policies offer OKENA partners a synergistic technology to enhance their own solutions to proactively prevent intrusions from executing their malicious code.

Adding OKENA StormWatch and StormFront to an existing product and services portfolio provides many new ways to extend partners' businesses, including the following:

-- Facilitates and enables the deployment of intrusion prevention software into
new and existing customer sites, stopping new attacks from causing damage in
real-time

-- Provides the ability to develop customized policies that protect specific
applications to meet the unique needs of different vertical markets

-- Exceeds service-level agreements for managed services by preventing the
downtime associated with new intrusions

"Simply detecting intrusions doesn't provide sound security; attacks need to be stopped cold," said Ben Campbell, vice president of business development at netForensics. "By integrating StormWatch alerts with the netForensics Universal Agent, our customers get a more proactive understanding of their enterprise security." netForensics, Inc. provides centralized Security Information Management (SIM) for an immediate understanding of an organization's security status by managing the complexity, timeliness and quality of their IT security environment. Information about netForensics is available online at www.netForensics.com.

OKENA offers three custom partnership categories tailored to maximize the benefit to each type of partner:

Solution Alliance Partners

OKENA has established relationships with premier consulting and professional service organizations as well as Systems Integrators to deliver solutions that combine OKENA StormWatch and StormFront intrusion prevention software with the expertise, resources and support that these organizations can provide. Creating service revenue opportunities, OKENA's software fits well into an overall security delivery strategy that includes application security assessments, policy design, policy development and deployment, site management, end-user training, technical support and other professional services. Partners also benefit from the additional ability to drive revenues from continued services.

Service Alliance Partners

OKENA's relationships with worldwide managed security service providers (MSSPs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) brings breakthrough intrusion prevention technology to customers along with experienced security management expertise. By incorporating OKENA StormWatch and StormFront software into their own security operations and packaged service offerings, MSSPs and ISPs deliver competitively priced security solutions that generate positive business results. OKENA is flexible with business and pricing models that specifically adapt to MSSP and ISP markets.

Technology Alliance Partners

OKENA has built technology relationships with world-class vendors to create best-of-breed proactive security solutions. With OKENA protection during the window of vulnerability created by new or evolving attacks, Technology Alliance Partners are free to focus on their business instead of reacting to attacks. Technology Alliance Partners include security technology leaders who create and co-develop, solutions leveraging OKENA's innovative INCORE (Intercept Correlate Rules Engine) technology with their own leading technology. By integrating OKENA's technologies, OKENA's Technology Alliance Partners can provide tremendous value to their existing portfolio of customers while gaining new opportunities to generate business and enhance customer loyalty.

For more information about OKENA's Global Alliance Network, additional partner benefits and detailed information on partner support, visit the OKENA Web site at www.okena.com. Companies interested in joining the program can register on the site, send requests to [e-mail] or call 301-896-9328.

"Companies are sick and tired of reacting to attacks after they've already hit and caused damage," said Christopher King, Information Security practice director at Greenwich Technology Partners. "Partnering with OKENA allows us to further strengthen our clients' security infrastructure by implementing their proactive intrusion prevention solutions. Together, OKENA StormWatch and StormFront allow us to protect against future threats and attacks that haven't even been developed yet, so our clients can rest assured they are prepared to withstand what the future may bring." Greenwich Technology Partners (GTP) is a leading network infrastructure consulting and engineering company that designs, builds and manages mission-critical networks and data center infrastructure for Global 2000 enterprises and large service providers. Information about GTP is available online at www.greenwichtech.com.

About OKENA

OKENA develops breakthrough security software products that proactively preserve the operational integrity of applications and host systems. OKENA StormSystem is a system of seamlessly integrated security products, which act in unison to prevent existing and unknown attacks without relying on attack signatures. OKENA has made security suites unnecessary by establishing a common underlying "intelligent agent" architecture called INCORE that allows for true integration among OKENA products, including future technology developments. OKENA's application-centric technologies enforce authorized application behavior to allow acceptable business activity while proactively preventing dangerous activity from executing. This behavioral approach reduces high IT costs associated with the maintenance and deployment of traditional attack-centric signature technologies. OKENA continues to receive industry validation, with recent recognition including being named a finalist for the 2002 MIT Sloan eBusiness Awards, a five-star review of StormWatch from SC Magazine, and Network Computing naming OKENA a "company to watch" in 2002. OKENA, headquartered in Waltham, Mass., was founded in 1999 and is privately held. For more information on StormSystem and OKENA's INCORE architecture, visit the OKENA Web site at www.okena.com.

OKENA, INCORE, StormWatch and StormFront are trademarks of OKENA, Inc. Other trademarks used in this document are the properties of their respective owners.