Riptech Joins OKENA Global Alliance Partner Program; OKENA Extends Certification to Riptech, Provides Training on Best-of-Breed StormWatch and StormFront Intrusion Prevention Solutions.

Business/Technology Editors

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 2002

OKENA(TM), Inc., the leading developer of intrusion prevention software, today announced a partnership with Riptech, Inc., the premier provider of scalable, real-time managed security services. OKENA's intrusion prevention solutions provide best-of-breed proactive security technology. As the newest member of OKENA's Global Alliance Partner Program, Riptech staff has undergone certification on OKENA's StormWatch(TM) and StormFront(TM) products. OKENA's intrusion prevention solutions provide Riptech security experts with a proactive ability to stop new attacks, viruses and even cyber-terrorist threats from causing damage--without the delays and difficulty associated with traditional reactive security approaches that are based upon source code, virus signatures and the distribution of patches.

"The proliferation of new attacks and viruses we experienced in the last year has clearly shown that a reactive approach to security is no longer adequate," said John Noonan, vice president of business development at OKENA. "Businesses can't afford to focus on downloading patches and fixing damage from the latest attack anymore. They need a proactive solution like OKENA's StormWatch to prevent new and unknown intrusions from causing damage in the first place. By combining OKENA's ability to stop new attacks with Riptech's unparalleled security policy development expertise, Riptech's comprehensive security assessment offerings include full-scale intrusion prevention solutions that go well beyond those offered by traditional intrusion detection technologies."

Built from the ground up on OKENA's powerful INCORE(TM) architecture, StormWatch is the heart of OKENA's intrusion prevention solutions. Riptech will benefit from StormWatch's ability to stop new attacks from causing damage in real-time. StormFront, OKENA's front-end policy generation tool, also provides Riptech SPS with the ability to develop customized policies to protect specific applications, meeting the needs of customers in a variety of different markets. Most importantly to Riptech customers, OKENA StormWatch prevents new attacks from executing, successfully avoiding the downtime associated with the continuing onslaught of new intrusions. OKENA customers will also benefit from the partnership, as Riptech provides them with an experienced professional services option to develop new StormWatch security policies and protect any application or business environment.

"The intrusion prevention capability provided by OKENA StormWatch and StormFront are valuable tools for protecting networks from information security threats," said Ken Legge, vice president of business development for Riptech. "Through the training and certification provided by OKENA, Riptech security experts will be better able to leverage the advantages of OKENA products as a part of the comprehensive security policy development process."

StormWatch is the central piece of OKENA's StormSystem(TM), a system of highly integrated products acting in unison to protect applications from new and evolving threats. StormSystem is powered by OKENA's breakthrough INtercept COrrelate Rules Engine (INCORE) architecture, which correlates an application's use of file, network, registry and COM functions in order to define and enforce acceptable and safe behavior. Predicated on seamlessly integrated security products that prevent existing and unknown attacks without attack signatures, StormSystem dramatically reduces the operational burden of traditional security solutions.

StormFront is a companion product to StormWatch that provides OKENA customers and partners with the only effective way to protect any standard or custom application. StormFront analyzes the behavior of mission-critical business applications and then generates secure operating policies for them that plug into StormWatch. Paired with StormWatch, StormFront delivers complete intrusion prevention for any application. With OKENA's INCORE architecture as the backbone of development, future products can be built to also interact seamlessly within the StormSystem framework. The StormSystem management console is 'open' and allows for integration with other security architectures.

About Riptech

Riptech, Inc., the premier provider of scalable, real-time managed security services, protects clients through advanced outsourced security monitoring and professional services. Riptech's unique Caltarian technology platform provides real-time information protection through around-the-clock monitoring, analysis, and response. The Caltarian technology is capable of processing large volumes of network security data to separate security threats from false positives in real-time, with carrier-class scalability. Additionally, Riptech's Security Professional Services group provides security policy development, assessment and auditing, penetration testing, incident forensics, and response. Riptech security specialists have secured hundreds of organizations including Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies. Based on its analysis of attacks against a customer base of more than 300 companies in over 25 countries, Riptech regularly publishes the Internet Security Threat Report, which can be found at www.riptech.com. Founded in 1998 by former Department of Defense security professionals and market experts, Riptech is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with offices in San Jose, California, and New York City.

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.

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