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Top Layer Networks Named to IT Week’s “Top 50 Technology Innovators of 2005” List

Westborough, MA, December 05, 2005 -

Company Recognized for Innovative Three Dimensional Protection Approach to Intrusion Prevention Systems

Top Layer Networks, the global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, today announced it has been named to IT Week magazine’s Top 50 Technology Innovator of 2005 list.

“We’re honored to have been chosen by IT Week as a top Technology Innovator,” said Peter Rendall, president and CEO of Top Layer Networks. “This further validates our development of intrusion prevention systems that provide innovative Three Dimensional Protection from malicious content, undesired access and rate-based attacks in a single device is in line with today’s enterprise security needs.”

Per IT Week magazine, technology is what powers global business these days, but innovation is what transforms it and carries it forth. These innovators can be small innovative startups or big corporations, but what is important is what they bring to the global stage. And it’s paramount for all involved to keep up to date on new developments.

As such, the December 5th issue of IT Week magazine, which weekly keeps over a 100,000 subscribers up to date on these developments, will publish its list of the 50 companies it deems have been the most innovative on the technology front in the last year – including Top Layer Networks.

IT Week is the only weekly IT magazine to electronically deliver the latest IT news to over 100,000 qualified subscribers each week in digital format. Ken Durham, editor of IT Week magazine, explained that the list had evolved from the magazine’s observations about the new technologies it featured during the last year and that although it was a hard pick, he was very proud to be able to showcase the great work these 50 companies have done in the magazine.

Terry Logan, Group Publisher & President of Possibility Media which publishes IT Week, added that he was very excited about the magazine’s compilation and couldn’t wait to see what this year’s innovators have in store for 2006.

About Possibility Media

Possibility Media is a privately held Florida corporation and was established as the result of several acquisitions of various web sites and media properties, together with Virtual Trade Shows and the technology behind the shows. Although based in Miami, the company has people all over the globe including the U.K., Australia, South Africa, India, Ukraine, The Netherlands and other Eastern European nations.

About Top Layer Networks

Top Layer Networks is dedicated to its role as the leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), developing and bringing to market network security infrastructure solutions that help commercial and government organizations protect their critical on-line assets from the losses and risks associated with cyber threats. Its family of IPS appliances is designed with “Three Dimensional Protection” that provides the most advanced protection capabilities against known and unknown attacks at the highest tested performance rates. Top Layer Networks is headquartered in Massachusetts, USA with sales and support presence in Canada, Germany, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Contact:

Donna Rogers Top Layer Networks Phone: 508/870-1300, ext. 127 Email: drogers@toplayer.com	Matt Flanagan Fama PR Phone: 617/ 758-4141 Email: matt@famapr.com