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Security Sage Overdrive Partners with Top Layer Networks to Provide Intrusion Prevention Solutions to Corporate and ISP Customers

Westboro, MA, April 24, 2006 -

Top Layer Networks, the global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, today announced a partnership with SecuritySage Overdrive (SSO), a managed security & solutions provider. Under the partnership, SSO will help protect its corporate and ISP customers by identifying and blocking attacks using the three dimensional protection of Top Layer’s IPS 5500.

”SSO delivers security excellence to its customers and adding Top Layer’s IPS 5500 to its solutions portfolio strengthens its ability to manage the increasing sophistication of cyber threats,” said Peter Rendall, president and CEO of Top Layer Networks. “We’re excited to add a dedicated company like SSO to our partner program, and help them deliver intrusion prevention excellence to their customers.”

SSO provides services focused on: information systems auditing, management, security, investigation and enforcement. The company also has global managed support, application development, and data management offerings. In addition to providing Top Layer’s IPS products to customers as part of its expertise and implementation offering, SSO uses Top Layer IPS 5500s in its own data centers.

“Our expertise in protecting our customers from spam, viruses and email attacks as part of our managed email solutions has caused the cyber criminals attacking our customers to turn to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. While our email protection systems were capable of handling all of the email sent through them, we identified an additional need for a solution to mitigate attacks outside the realm of email,” said Jeffrey Posluns, CIO, SSO Inc. “Top Layer’s IPS 5500 devices are now the front line in defending our data centers, which gives us the ability to focus on proactively securing our customers’ critical infrastructure and online resources.”

About the Top Layer IPS 5500

The IPS 5500 family of products offers the strongest levels of network protection, performance and reliability on the market today. By combining stateful firewall, content-based IPS/IDS, and attack mitigation algorithms, the IPS 5500 is the only solution that provides Three Dimensional Protection (3DP) against undesired access, malicious content and rate-based attacks. Top Layer’s architecture enables the IPS 5500 to protect enterprises and service providers from sophisticated, hybrid attacks in real-time while enabling the highest throughput of legitimate traffic.

Top Layer Networks’ family of network intrusion prevention solutions, the IPS 5500 series, has received top accolades from the world’s most prestigious labs and influential publications. In 2005, Top Layer received the most awards and achievements of any IPS, including recognition from the NSS Group, Computer Reseller News, Information Security Magazine, SC Magazine, IT Week, Service Provider Weekly, the Tolly Group, and more.

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.

About SecuritySage Overdrive

SecuritySage Overdrive is focused on delivering end to end security and management solutions for their clients. The company is specialized in delivering customized solutions in which security, application development, data management, and network management are combined. SSO’s solutions offer their clients the necessary peace of mind to concentrate on their core business activities; and the confidence that their solutions will keep their businesses running. SSO is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, and manages and maintains two high security, high availability data centers across Canada. The company’s solutions have been implemented for clients worldwide.

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