iPolicy Networks Launches ipEnforcer 3000 Family -- First Unified, Adaptive Security Systems for the Enterprise.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2004

Breakthrough Single-Pass Inspection Engine(TM) (SPI) Runs

Multiple Security Services Concurrently

iPolicy Networks, the developer of the first unified network security systems, today announced it has expanded its product family with the introduction of two new security systems for the enterprise market, the ipEnforcer(R) 3100 and 3400. These new enterprise-class security systems were designed to provide unparalleled performance combined with adaptive network protection to successfully block today's increasingly complex threats and attacks. The ipEnforcer systems offer enterprises comprehensive threat prevention at speeds and performance levels previously unavailable. iPolicy Networks' family of ipEnforcer(R) security systems were extensively used in the demanding carrier environment as a test of the products' performance and ruggedness.

"Next generation security systems are able to apply security policies across layers 3-7 by completely inspecting transmission stream content with a powerful single pass inspection engine," said Richard Stiennon, vice president of research and security analyst at Gartner. "After packet assembly, parsing, and interpretation it is then possible to apply policies based on malicious content, protocol anomalies, behavior, and signatures as well as traditional source-destination-port. Because of this unified architecture, Gartner believes next generation security systems will outperform integrated gateway security devices being created by combinations of various security applications in one box."

"High-performance, low latency security systems with collaborating security services are critical in today's environment of blended attacks," said Jeff Wilson, executive director and analyst at Infonetics Research. "The ipEnforcer products are part of an emerging third generation of security solutions that optimize security and provide reductions in latency with performance increases by inspecting network traffic packets in one pass."

Third-Generation Security Architecture Surpasses Existing Security Offering

iPolicy Networks' comprehensive, adaptive, and unified network security systems avoid the performance, latency and interoperability problems of so-called "integrated" devices and disparate point solutions. These older second-generation security solutions perform security services serially and often require multiple management platforms, deliver fragmented network security enforcement, and leave the network vulnerable to hackers and intruders' crippling attacks.

iPolicy Networks' ipEnforcer leverages a single-pass inspection engine(TM) (SPI) that enables multiple security services to run concurrently, effectively safeguarding network integrity at high-speed throughput. The new product family leverages the company's innovative third-generation security architecture to provide multiple correlated security services including VPN, stateful firewall, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, DDoS and attack mitigation, URL screening, surveillance and anti-virus. The ipEnforcer systems are powered by purpose-built appliances and provide 400 Mbs and 100 Mbs throughput respectively while concurrently running the multiple security services.

In conjunction with the launch of its new security systems, iPolicy Networks today announced its unified security manager(TM) (USM) for managing its new family of enterprise products. The ipEnforcer USM is the industry's most flexible yet sophisticated security management platform designed to enforce, monitor, and report on enterprise-wide security. The ipEnforcer systems offer significantly lower acquisition costs and greatly reduced installation, management and maintenance costs than competing solutions.

"The security market will continue to demand and reward innovation and efficiency. The intersection of rapid innovation and high demand provide a unique opportunity to leapfrog established players and bring next-generation technology to market," said Prabhu Goel, chairman and CEO of iPolicy Networks. "Our ipEnforcer security systems show our deep commitment to driving innovation in the security space and address the unique and dynamic security requirements of today's enterprise market. With the launch of our enterprise-class 'unified' security systems, we offer enterprises the flexibility needed in different deployment environments without sacrificing the level of security or performance."

Adaptive Threat Prevention

iPolicy's adaptive security architecture enables the rapid adaptation of defenses against new and emerging security threats. The ipEnforcer is the first unified security system to provide comprehensive, real-time network protection. Combining multiple security services, the ipEnforcer delivers a unified and correlated response to attacks. By capturing and correlating the attack data -- in real time -- across the complete suite of security services, the ipEnforcer swiftly and intelligently detects, evaluates and eliminates viruses, intrusions and other threats before they breach the network.

Typical networks often address security issues by partitioning security applications individually on separate hardware platforms. As a result, these first-generation security solutions cost more to acquire and manage, degrade network performance and add significant latency to network traffic flow. For networks carrying VoIP traffic for example, this added latency is unacceptable because of the degradation of conversation quality. iPolicy's Single Pass Inspection(TM) (SPI) engine inspects each packet exactly once and the results are simultaneously utilized by multiple security services, adding negligible network latency while delivering much higher performance.

About the ipEnforcer Unified Security Manager

The ipEnforcer USM is a highly scalable security manager that provides unified provisioning and concurrent management of multiple ipEnforcers deployed in an enterprise. The USM delivers hierarchical management and virtual security domains that can span multiple enterprise locations and departments. It provides flexible and consistent security management across the entire enterprise based on the specification of enterprise wide security policies. The USM also enables co-management and role-based management throughout the IT organization while enabling centralized management. The USM is extremely scalable, allowing concurrent management of network security for thousands of ipEnforcer systems.

Availability

The ipEnforcer 3100 and 3400 are now available. The surveillance service is available on the ipEnforcer 3000 product family in Q2 of 2004.

For more information about iPolicy Networks products, visit: www.ipolicynetworks.com.

About iPolicy Networks

iPolicy Networks is the developer of the world's first and only unified security system, delivering real-time, adaptive security enforcement for enterprises, managed security service providers, and government agencies worldwide. The company's ipEnforcer is a visionary product family, that reduces network security risk and total cost of ownership by addressing the convergence of multiple, disparate network security services, including intrusion detection and prevention, DDoS and attack mitigation, deep application inspection firewall, VPN, anti-virus, surveillance, and URL filtering into one purpose-built, security system capable of wire-speed throughput ranging from 100Mbps to 5Gbps with sub-millisecond latency. The ipEnforcer is powered by a Single Pass Inspection(TM) (SPI) engine to deliver wire-speed throughput, negligible latency, and real-time threat prevention. A sophisticated Unified Security Manager provides centralized management and consistent enterprise-wide security policy enforcement. By implementing a unified security system, customers can dramatically reduce capital expenses and operating expenses with stronger security compared to any other security solution offered today.

iPolicy Networks is located in Fremont, Calif., and is privately held. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.ipolicynetworks.com or call +1.510.687.3000.