Top Layer Security Appoints Jim Williams as VP of Worldwide Sales.

Increased Global Demand for Intrusion Prevention Solutions Spurs Rapid Corporate Growth and Market Expansion

WESTBORO, Mass. -- Top Layer Security, the leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), today announced that Jim Williams has been named vice president of worldwide sales. In this role, Williams will lead the company's efforts to address the growing global demand for intrusion prevention solutions.

"Organizations across the globe face an increasingly aggressive threat landscape, leading to a high demand for intrusion prevention solutions," said Peter Rendall, president and CEO of Top Layer Networks. "Jim will play an integral role in our continued expansion, managing all aspects of our rapidly growing sales force."

Jim brings to Top Layer over 30 years of exceptional sales and marketing achievements with several leading hi-tech firms. Prior to joining Top Layer, Jim was vice president and general manager of North America sales and marketing for 3Com. Prior to 3Com, Jim was the senior vice president of sales at Nuvo Network Management, where he led direct and indirect sales growth in the managed services enterprise space. Prior to Nuvo, he was the senior vice president of sales and marketing at Vanguard Managed Solutions. Jim has also held a number of senior sales and marketing positions at Motorola and Stratus Computer. At Motorola, Jim held key sales management positions, including vice president of North America channel sales and vice president of worldwide sales for the company's Multiservices Networking Division.

"I look forward to working with an exceptionally strong management team to continue to provide our customers with best in class intrusion prevention solutions," said Williams. "The number of threats facing organizations around the world are growing exponentially, creating new and exciting opportunities for the company to supply the necessary network protection. I'm excited to help the company continue to grow its brand here in the U.S. and across the globe, providing our customers with our award winning security-solutions to defend against the latest attacks."

About the Top Layer IPS 5500

The IPS 5500 family of products offers the strongest levels of network protection, performance and reliability on the market today. By combining content-based IPS/IDS, stateful firewall and attack mitigation algorithms, the IPS 5500 is the only solution that provides Three Dimensional Protection (3DP) against malicious content, undesired access and botnet-based attacks. Top Layer's architecture enables the IPS 5500 to protect enterprises and service providers from sophisticated attacks in real-time while enabling the highest throughput of legitimate traffic.

The IPS 5500 E-series has received top accolades from the world's most prestigious labs and influential publications. In addition, Top Layer has received significant recognition from the NSS Group, Computer Reseller News, Information Security Magazine, IT Week, Service Provider Weekly, the Tolly Group and was awarded "Best Buy" status by SC Magazine in their 2007 review of IDS/IPS solutions as well as Best IPS Product of 2007.

About Top Layer Security

Top Layer Security is dedicated to its role as the leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), developing and bringing to market network security infrastructure solutions that help commercial and government organizations protect their critical on-line assets from the losses and risks associated with cyber threats. Top Layer Security is headquartered in Massachusetts, USA with sales and services support worldwide.

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