WebTrends Firewall Suite Solution Garners Additional Industry Support.

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PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 1, 2000

Sun, 3Com and Secure Computing Join Leading Firewall

Vendors to Ensure Compatibility With WebTrends Firewall

Suite Management and Reporting Solution

Further enhancing its position as the standard in eBusiness Systems management and reporting solutions, WebTrends Corporation (Nasdaq:WEBT) today announced that 12 leading firewall vendors have been certified in the WebTrends Enhanced Log Format (WELF) program, ensuring that their firewall products are compatible with WebTrends Firewall Suite(TM) 3.0.

Released today, Firewall Suite 3.0 manages, monitors and reports on firewall activity, alerting IT and security managers to issues with incoming and outgoing activity, protocol usage, security problems, employee Internet activity and bandwidth consumption.

The WELF program provides a framework for the development of firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and proxy logs that can be analyzed by WebTrends Firewall Suite, ensuring automatic compatibility between future versions of vendors' solutions and Firewall Suite. The program provides leading technology partners with the materials and support needed to create WELF-standard log files. Developing to these standards ensures that WebTrends Firewall Suite will be able to parse these logs and report on customers' data correctly and comprehensively. For more information about the WELF program, go to http://www.webtrends.com/partners/welf_program.htm.

Sun, 3Com and Secure Computing have joined Aventail, Cendio, CyberGuard, Netopia, NetScreen, Ramp Networks, SonicWALL, and WatchGuard in the adoption of WELF as a standard log file format. WELF certification ensures that customers who use these vendors' firewall and VPN products have the highest level of integration and support from WebTrends Firewall Suite's comprehensive reporting and real-time monitoring. WebTrends has certified the compatibility of these vendors' products with WELF through comprehensive testing in WebTrends labs, and recommends them to security and IT managers seeking comprehensive, high-quality network security solutions.

"By ensuring integration of Firewall Suite with leading firewall and VPN vendors, WebTrends is setting the standard for security management and reporting solutions," said Glen Boyd, president and chief technical officer at WebTrends Corporation. "The broad industry support WELF has received demonstrates its acceptance as the firewall information exchange format of choice and that security industry professionals recognize WebTrends' position as the leader in firewall management."

Firewall Vendors Rally Around WebTrends Firewall Suite 3.0

"Our Solaris engineers have worked closely with WebTrends to develop the integration with WebTrends Firewall Suite and the SunScreen Secure Net firewall product line, including the free SunScreen Lite bundled with Solaris 8," said Mark Thacker, technical strategist for Solaris Directory and Security Products at Sun Microsystems. "We feel that Firewall Suite's advanced reporting capabilities and enterprise scalability are a perfect match for SunScreen products."

"3Com's OfficeConnect Internet Firewall products combined with Web Trends Firewall Suite offer customers a comprehensive security, management and reporting solution," said Nicki Volkman, product marketing manager at 3Com Corporation. "This partnership between 3Com and Web Trends provides customers with a radically simple approach to integrate security and reporting products."

"Our customers demand the highest level of uncompromising security, performance and manageability for their growing extranets," said Andrew Stevens, product marketing manager for Sidewinder at Secure Computing Corporation. "The ease of use of WebTrends Firewall Suite combined with Sidewinder's application-level filtering technology and SecureOS(TM) provides a highly manageable solution for the enterprise."

About WebTrends Firewall Suite

WebTrends Firewall Suite 3.0 is the most complete security management and reporting solution, enabling Internet professionals to analyze firewall and proxy server log files and report on all incoming and outgoing activity, protocols usage, security problems, resource usage, bandwidth consumption and much more. WebTrends Firewall Suite manages, monitors and reports on firewall activity so users can understand and react to the impact on security and network traffic. It supports all of the leading firewall, VPN and proxy servers, and offers the comprehensive reports, robustness and usability for which WebTrends products are relied on. For more information, or to download a free 14-day trial copy, please go to http://www.webtrends.com/products/firewall/.

About WebTrends

Founded in 1993, WebTrends Corporation (http://www.webtrends.com) is the leading provider of Visitor Relationship Management and eBusiness Intelligence solutions for Internet and intranet servers and firewalls.

WebTrends offers organizations a comprehensive set of solutions that are integrated, scalable, modular, and easy to use. Products include CommerceTrends, WebTrends Enterprise Reporting Server, WebTrends Enterprise Suite, WebTrends Professional Suite, WebTrends Log Analyzer, WebTrends Security Analyzer, WebTrends Firewall Suite and WebTrends Live, the industry's first Web traffic analysis eService. They are used by thousands of customers such as ISPs, ASPs, government and educational institutions and corporate clients that include American Express, AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Comcast, DIGEX, Dow Jones & Company, EDS, Firstar, IBM, Microsoft, NASA, NCR, Pharmacia & Upjohn, PSINet, Verio, marchFIRST, and UUNet.

WebTrends' many strategic partners include Allaire (Nasdaq:ALLR), Cable & Wireless, Check Point Software, Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO), DIGEX (Nasdaq:DIGX), Hewlett Packard (NYSE:HWP), Internet Dynamics, Lotus Development, Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Novell (Nasdaq:NOVL), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), Vignette (Nasdaq: VIGN) and WatchGuard Technologies.

WebTrends is a registered trademark of WebTrends Corporation. Visitor Relationship Management and VRM are trademarks of WebTrends Corporation. All brands or product names mentioned are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products and services of, their respective owners.