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Top Layer Networks Enters into Strategic OEM Agreement with eIQnetworks to Deliver Co-Branded SIEM, Forensics, and Compliance Audit Management Solutions

Westboro, MA, May 01, 2006 -

eIQnetworks™, Inc. (www.eiqnetworks.com), today announced that Top Layer Networks , the global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, is standardizing on eIQnetworks’ Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions. As a result of this strategic OEM agreement, Top Layer will deliver a co-branded version of eIQnetworks’ Network Security Analyzer (NSA) with every Top Layer IPS 5500 system shipped.

This strategic OEM agreement also allows Top Layer to distribute eIQnetworks’ Enterprise Security Analyzer (ESA). ESA and NSA are both feature-rich and cost-effective SIEM solutions designed to help enterprise, government and MSSP customers protect their network devices, servers and enterprise applications while ensuring compliance with stringent regulatory requirements.

“Top Layer earned its place in the market by providing customers with multi-level protection from undesired access, malicious content and rate-based attacks to ensure they are adequately protected from the increasingly sophisticated cyber threats that lurk throughout the Internet,” said Peter Rendall, president and CEO of Top Layer Networks. “We evaluated several products on the market and concluded that eIQnetworks provided us the most valuable enhancements to our product portfolio. Partnering with eIQnetworks enables Top Layer to extend an entirely new level of security intelligence, tightly integrated with the compliance management, forensics, audit management and reporting tools that will further strengthen our customers’ entire network operations infrastructure.”

Top Layer’s 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.

With the introduction of co-branded Top Layer NSA, Top Layer is extending to its customers award-winning, comprehensive SIEM capabilities, such as centralized log management, event monitoring/correlation analysis, reporting and forensics analysis. For distributed enterprise and MSSP customers, Top Layer NSA delivers an out-of-the-box, role-based reporting portal, with more than 1,000 report templates designed to streamline and dramatically simplify reporting for regulatory compliance, corporate policy mitigation and security analysis.

“The Top Layer Networks brand is entrusted to protect the IT interests of some of the largest enterprise customers in the world,” said Vijay Basani, chief executive officer of eIQnetworks. “By extending eIQnetworks security intelligence and compliance management innovations to its customers, Top Layer is enabling us to gain a solid foothold in the large enterprise marketplace, and offering us the opportunity to continue building on the trust Top Layer has so deservedly earned.”

Enhancing the Top Layer IPS 5500 series with the co-branded “Powered by eIQnetworks” OEM version of NSA provides customers with:

Comprehensive SIEM capabilities: Delivers centralized log management, topology-based threat visualization, real time event monitoring, correlated alerting, reporting, and forensics, all in a single solution.
Measurable ROI on Security investments: Provides a mechanism to measure the ROI of security infrastructure investments.
Simplicity: Easy to setup and configure. Install and begin using in less than 1 hour. Pay as you go model allows for easy expansion without large upfront capital commitment.
Scalability: Multi-tiered architecture scales to meet largest enterprise needs.
Introduce new revenue generating services: Out of the box portals allow MSSPs, ISPs and VARs to introduce new revenue-generating services.

eIQnetworks Value Proposition to OEM Partners

“Powered by eIQnetworks” co-branded SIEM solutions are adopted by several leading security solution providers including Fortinet, Secure Computing, NEC, Top Layer Networks, Mirapoint, IPolicy Networks, Astaro, NetContinuum, and Intoto. eIQnetworks offers these benefits to its strategic OEM partners:

Shortened Sales Cycle – Allows OEMs to easily show the benefit of using their solution and provide easy comparisons of before and after scenarios.
Complete SIEM solution for Security operations and Compliance Audit Management – Provides centralized log management, event monitoring, correlated alerting, comprehensive reporting, threat visualization, and Forensics.
Compelling OEM Licensing Model – Extremely attractive terms help OEM partners offer leading SIEM solution to end users while maintaining excellent profit margins.

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. For more information about Top Layer’s newly-enhanced family of Intrusion Prevention Systems, visit www.toplayer.com.

About eIQnetworks
eIQnetworks, Inc. is an award-winning leading provider of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions. Security professionals worldwide rely on eIQ’s cost-effective software solutions to simplify heterogeneous security operations and compliance audit management. eIQ SIEM solutions and “Powered by eIQ” solutions seamlessly integrate log management, security event monitoring, correlation analysis, reporting and forensics analysis across Network, Server and Applications stacks.. The Company’s products are deployed in over 1,800 enterprise and government, and MSSP customers, including Casio, Hess, Sprint, Boeing, Avaya, Celgene, BT, Malaysia Telecom, Singapore Telecom, Accenture, Fujitsu, Nuspire, Rack Space, Boston.com, FCC, US Army, US Navy, Wachovia, Citibank, UBS, KPMG and many more. eIQ products are sold worldwide through strategic OEM partners Fortinet, Secure Computing, NEC, Top Layer Networks, Mirapoint, IPolicy networks, Astaro, NetContinuum, Intoto and global network of distributors and resellers. For additional information, visit www.eIQnetworks.com.

Contact:

Donna Rogers Top Layer Networks Phone: 508-870-1300 x127 Email: drogers@TopLayer.com	Matt Flanagan Fama PR Phone: 617-758-4141 Email: matt@famapr.com

Kevin Bourke eIQ PR Phone: 781-545-7449 Email: kbourke@bourkepr.com