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Security Leader eEye Announces Support for Network Access Protection Technology from Microsoft

(ALISO VIEJO, CA) August 23, 2004 — eEye® Digital Security, a leading developer of vulnerability management software solutions for enterprise security, today announced it will support Microsoft's forthcoming Network Access Protection technology. By integrating its industry-leading Retina® Enterprise Suite for enterprise vulnerability assessment and remediation and its Blink® end-point vulnerability prevention products with the Network Access Protection technology from Microsoft, eEye will be able to offer Microsoft users extended protection against potential infections by viruses and malware when their digital assets connect to the network. Network Access Protection technology is designed to allow IT professionals to monitor and control network access based upon validation of a computer’s compliance to pre-established policies. Network Access Protection will be part of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Update in 2005.

"eEye’s vulnerability management products are the type of products we’re looking to integrate with Network Access Protection technology," said Steve Anderson, director in the Windows Server Group at Microsoft Corp. "eEye has experience discovering critical security vulnerabilities, as well as protecting enterprises from such vulnerabilities at both the host and network levels. Their expertise and product portfolio will add to our efforts to protect corporate assets."

Over the last five years, eEye has been recognized as the preeminent organization in the discovery of the most critical vulnerabilities in various platforms and applications, including the vulnerabilities subsequently leveraged by the Sasser, Witty, Code Red and Sapphire worms, as well as the Microsoft ASN vulnerability and hundreds of other important discoveries. This expertise gives eEye a distinct advantage in designing software solutions for the assessment and remediation of vulnerabilities and the prevention of the attacks that leverage them.

"eEye’s approach to complete vulnerability management – eliminating vulnerabilities rather than just thwarting attacks – is a perfect match for Network Access Protection technology from Microsoft," stated Firas Raouf, chief operations officer, eEye. "Validating the security of systems used by mobile employees – such as roaming teleworkers, contractors and others – is precisely what eEye's technology does best. The combination of Microsoft's technology with eEye’s security expertise makes a formidable solution to fulfill enterprise security needs."

Network Access Protection technology is designed to deliver a uniform method for detecting the health state of a client attempting to connect to a network, restricting the access until compliance to policy is validated, and updating the client to current security policy levels. Network Access Protection includes an application programming interface (API) set for developers and administrators to create complete solutions for network access, isolation and policy compliance. To this end, Microsoft is working with industry leaders in fields such as anti-virus, vulnerability assessment, patch management, intrusion prevention and system management in order to deliver comprehensive, end-to-end solutions that protect corporate assets, control the spread of viruses and ensure policy compliance.

eEye will integrate its Blink end-point security agent with Network Access Protection technology in order to enable organizations with comprehensive policy enforcement and protection from zero-day attacks that leverage yet unknown vulnerabilities within enterprise networks. This comprehensive security solution, which is implemented as a software agent on individual Microsoft systems, allows enterprises to defer patching vulnerable machines until regularly scheduled maintenance cycles, thereby saving large enterprises millions of dollars in business disruption costs and the associated IT resource drain caused by "panic" patching. Additionally, Blink eliminates the problem of so-called socially engineered security threats in which hackers trick individuals into downloading malware or otherwise making their machines vulnerable to attack.

eEye is also integrating its Retina Enterprise Suite with Network Access Protection technology. The Retina Enterprise Suite delivers vulnerability assessment, remediation, patch automation and sophisticated workflow integration that allows IT and security departments to work together effectively to optimize resources and mitigate threats. Through the Network Access Protection technology integration, machines that have an unacceptable level of unremediated vulnerabilities will not be given access to the network and will be quarantined until essential patching is implemented.

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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