Q1 Labs and Packeteer Integrate Application-level Networking and Security Solutions.

SAN JOSE -- Companies Integrate Application Layer Knowledge with Network Behavior Analysis to Detect Network Anomalies, Zero-day Security Threats and Application Policy Violations

Q1 Labs (www.q1labs.com), a leading network security management company, today announced an alliance with Packeteer(R), Inc. (NASDAQ: PKTR) to enable powerful, out-of-the-box integration between its network security management product, QRadar(TM), and the network and application information gathered by Packeteer PacketShaper WAN Optimization appliances. The integration will make it possible for enterprises to extend the power of their Packeteer traffic management solutions for greater application security and easier monitoring of a converging network and security architecture.

More than 7,000 businesses around the world have deployed Packeteer solutions for accelerating the delivery of business-critical information, ensuring VoIP call quality, enhancing MPLS network deployments and protecting business applications from viruses and worms. These businesses will now be able to send Packeteer flow information containing rich application knowledge directly from PacketShaper appliances to a QRadar 5.1 network security management console. QRadar's unique behavioral algorithms will analyze the network and application data to detect changes in existing behavior as well as new behaviors, security incidents or policy violations in everyday network and application use.

"Anything that gives me greater visibility is essential to the task of managing my network in a secure fashion," said Michael Ables, senior network systems analyst at Tarleton State University. "Being able to integrate the application knowledge I get from my PacketShaper deployment with the security analytics I get from QRadar provides me with a converged view of the network and its security."

"QRadar's integration with Packeteer once again advances security and network convergence by incorporating industry-leading Layer 7 application visibility with the QRadar network security management product," said Shaun McConnon, CEO of Q1 Labs. "Partnerships like this provide customers with best of breed analysis of their network and security infrastructures, an open alternative to closed, single-vendor, end-to-end security/networking solutions."

"PacketShaper integration with QRadar is a significant win for our customers who can now utilize Packeteer as a key part of their security strategy," said David Puglia, Packeteer's vice president of marketing. "Integrating PacketShaper monitoring and visibility information with QRadar provides unique application awareness, threat detection and behavioral security capabilities that are not available from any other vendor."

Additional product integration benefits include:

--Out-of-the-box integration between QRadar 5.1 network security management consoles and PacketShaper appliances

--Industry leading behavioral analytics applied to Packeteer's Flow Detail Record (FDR) in order to detect network anomalies, zero-day security threats and application policy violations

--QRadar's industry-leading graphing, pivoting, data-mining and reporting applied to Packeteer's FDR

--Long term storage, archival and retrieval of Packeteer FDR

--Packeteer's application knowledge combined with an enterprise view of monitored security devices in the network

--Operations and executive-level reporting to help address security, policy and regulatory compliance initiatives

Q1 Labs' flagship product QRadar 5.0, introduced in 2005, is the first solution to combine network behavior, security events, vulnerability profiles and threat information to empower enterprises to manage business operations on their networks more efficiently. QRadar 5.0 automatically enables enterprises to understand which events pose the greatest and most immediate threat to operations through a patented process called Judicial System Logic (JSL) that fuses network and security knowledge together in a single console.

About Packeteer

Packeteer(R), Inc., (NASDAQ: PKTR) is the global market leader in Application Traffic Management for wide area networks. Deployed at more than 7,000 companies in 50 countries, Packeteer solutions empower IT organizations with patented network visibility, control, and acceleration capabilities delivered through a family of intelligent, scalable appliances. For more information, contact Packeteer at [phone] or visit the company's web site at www.packeteer.com.

About QRadar

QRadar goes beyond traditional security information/event management (SIEM) products to create a command-and-control center. QRadar combines, analyzes and manages an unequalled set of surveillance data--network behavior, security events, vulnerability profiles and threat information--to empower enterprises to manage business operations on their networks efficiently from a single console. Easy deployment, business-relevant data and the control to enforce network security provide substantial advantages in performance, operations and cost.

About Q1 Labs

Commanding a unique position at the nexus of security and networking, Q1 Labs is re-defining network security management. Q1 Labs' flagship product, QRadar, integrates previously disparate network and security functions into one solution. This convergence ties the impact of security threats directly to specific business assets and services, reduces acquisition and operation costs and increases accuracy. Q1 Labs' installed customer base ranges from government agencies and financial institutions to universities and healthcare. Please visit http://www.q1labs.com or call [phone] for more information.

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