Ubizen Joins the Cisco Avvid Partner Program; Ubizen's OnlineGuardian Meets Cisco AVVID Program Requirements for Interoperability.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2001

Ubizen, Inc. (Nasdaq Europe: UBIZ - Euronext:UBI), a leading provider of e-Security solutions, today announced that it has joined the Cisco AVVID (Architecture for Voice and Video Integrated Data) Partner Program as a security and virtual private network (VPN) solutions member.

Through membership in the Cisco AVVID Partner Program, Ubizen's OnlineGuardian(R) Managed Security Service provides Cisco-based firewall, VPN, and intrusion detection system (IDS) services to enterprise customers.

The Cisco AVVID Partner Program sets criteria for interoperability testing by independent third parties and is a co-marketing program enabling leading product and services firms to deploy innovative e-Business solutions.

The program provides enterprise customers with information regarding Cisco AVVID Partner products and services that an independent testing facility has tested, verified and found to interoperate with a specified version of Cisco networking technology in the SAFE security blueprint.

The SAFE security blueprint provides a comprehensive security strategy for Cisco AVVID networks and utilizes the critical security technologies required to mitigate threats throughout an enterprise's e-Business infrastructure.

"True e-Security requires a component that can evolve and change with any threat a company may face," said Dan Pfeifle, U.S. business development manager at Ubizen. "To be completely effective, firewalls, VPNs and network intrusion detection devices must be monitored and managed on a 24x7 basis and not viewed as static purchases. By working with Cisco, Ubizen will be able to deploy its managed security services to a rapidly growing customer base."

Corporations are investing more in products and technologies to protect their networks from security threats, yet lack the employees and resources to properly manage the security devices and ensure their network is secure. OnlineGuardian provides both proactive and reactive security protection, allowing a customer's network administrators to focus more heavily on their own core competencies.

"Ubizen and Cisco support open, standards-based architectures and share a commitment to interoperable solutions. Through this vision, the Cisco AVVID Partner Program delivers the power of choice to enterprises -- the ability to extend the Cisco end-to-end architecture with our members' world-class products and technologies," said Michael Fuhrman, manager of professional services at Cisco Systems. "With Cisco AVVID partner offerings such as Ubizen's OnlineGuardian, customers can deploy a broad range of e-Business solutions that foster innovation and drive rapid adoption of business-critical technologies."

OnlineGuardian is Ubizen's family of Managed Security Services and provides proactive and remote management and monitoring of e-Security technologies 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Ubizen's dedicated operations teams monitor and manage components from three Security Operations Centers (SOCs) in the U.S.A. and Europe.

The OnlineGuardian family of services includes OnlineGuardian VAM (Vulnerability Assessment Monitoring), OnlineGuardian LA (Log Analysis), OnlineGuardian FM (Firewall Management), OnlineGuardian VPN (Virtual Private Network) and OnlineGuardian NIDM (Network Intrusion Detection Monitoring).

About Ubizen

Ubizen, a leading provider of e-Security solutions, allows companies worldwide to confidently conduct their business operations online. Ubizen OnlineGuardian(R), a family of managed security solutions, provides 24x7 proactive assessment, monitoring and management of enterprise security components.

With its SEAM technology, Ubizen can quickly and effectively analyze millions of security events per week and escalate only those events that pose a true security risk. In addition to SEAM, Ubizen houses a world class Security Intelligence Lab, which collects, researches and disseminates information on vendor products, viruses and vulnerabilities.

Ubizen also delivers a highly secure technology, DMZ/Shield, that defends Web servers from vulnerabilities missed by standard firewalls and network probes. With operations in the U.S.A., Europe and Asia-Pacific, Ubizen (www.ubizen.com) is a public company with dual listings on Nasdaq Europe (UBIZ) and the Euronext (UBI) exchange.