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eEye Digital Security and CISSR Technologies Partner to Deliver Managed Security Services to SMBs

Partnership Provides Complete Managed Security Services to Small and Medium-sized Businesses

(ALISO VIEJO, CA) June 21, 2004 — eEye® Digital Security, a leading developer of vulnerability management software for enterprise security, and CISSR Technologies, a Managed Security Services provider, today announced a partnership to deliver vulnerability management services to the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market. This partnership packages eEye’s Retina® Enterprise Suite, a comprehensive vulnerability management solution, and CISSR’s ESM V Series hardware platform together to deliver an integrated Threat Management solution with real-time monitoring capabilities. This security solution, now available through CISSR Technologies, is ideal for SMBs that may not have the resources and/or expertise in-house to implement such functions.

“As a mid-sized business, I have a strong need for vulnerability management, but I simply don’t have the resources to dedicate to such a complex problem,” stated Rodney Nettles, General Manager at Bob Taylor Chevrolet. “CISSR’s vulnerability management service provides us with an easy-to-use and effective solution to identify security vulnerabilities within our enterprise without having to assign IT resources or investment in additional hardware and software. It provides us with a consolidated and comprehensive view of potential threats to our systems and helps us to protect our infrastructure.”

The ESM V Series now integrates with Retina Enterprise Suite to provide organizations with reliable, third-party vulnerability management information. Together, CISSR and eEye offer a cost-effective, scaleable solution capable of remote vulnerability assessment and automated patch management integrated into a single managed security appliance.

“The SMB market makes up the majority of the corporate landscape,” said Charles Dodd, president & CEO of CISSR Technologies. “We believe that as long as the ability to achieve a secured network remains out of reach to these businesses, the security of U.S. critical infrastructure will remain at risk. With the combination of CISSR’s managed security services and eEye’s innovative products, we can deliver a comprehensive and cost effective vulnerability management solution for the SMB market.”

“While integrated vulnerability management has traditionally been only accessible by large enterprises, the SMB need for this technology can actually be greater, as they are less able to absorb the fiscal impact of a worm or virus,” said Will Corkery, vice president of North American Channels at eEye Digital Security. “Combining our industry-leading technology with CISSR’s experience in serving the SMB market fulfills SMBs’ need for vulnerability management delivered via a managed service offering.”

eEye’s Retina Enterprise Suite
In today's complex network architecture, significant investments have been made in enterprise applications - financial reporting, supply chain and sales force automation, to name a few. These applications drive business processes that rely on network components. A single attack on a vulnerable network device can have a “ripple” effect on a business process, reducing its availability or shutting it down entirely.

The Retina Enterprise Suite is designed to provide enterprises of all sizes with the tools and infrastructure required to eliminate such vulnerabilities, as opposed to thwarting attacks after they’ve started. The Retina Enterprise contains what is widely regarded as the industry’s most accurate network scanner, while also being one of the easiest to implement and use. Unlike many competing technology approaches, eEye's non-intrusive scanning technology won’t crash systems or applications.

More than just a scanner, the Retina Enterprise Suite provides workflow integration that gives enterprises the means to institutionalize protection strategies that will keep their businesses running. Retina Enterprise not only offers vulnerability assessment, but also remediation, patch automation and sophisticated workflow integration that allows IT and security departments to work together effectively to optimize resources and mitigate threats.

About the CISSR ESM V Series
Created by the CISSR Research and Development Team, the ESM V Series platform delivers through a single protection device intrusion prevention, antivirus, topology mapping, and protocol analysis while monitoring networks in real time. This solution adds a modular approach to network security, based on a robust managed security service. The ESM V Series architecture is scaleable to fit the most complex network layouts.

About CISSR Technologies
CISSR Technologies is a Managed Security Services Company. It is a key provider of cost effective security consulting and deployment solutions to a broad range of businesses. CISSR’s unique remote monitoring and management system offers an undemanding, efficient, integral and proactive response to information security.

About eEye Digital Security

eEye Digital Security® is pioneering a new class of security products:integrated threat management. This next-generation of security detects vulnerabilities and threats, prevents intrusions, protects all of an enterprise’s key computing resources, from endpoints to network assets to web sites and web applications, all while providing a centralized point of security management and network visibility.eEye’s research team is consistently the first to identify new threats in the wild, and our products leverage that research to deliver on the goal of making network security as easy to use and reliable as networking itself. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Orange County, California, eEye Digital Security protects more than 9,000 corporate and government organizations worldwide, including half of the Fortune 100. For more information, please visit www.eeye.com

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