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Releases Network Security Analyzer; Extends IPS 5500 User Response to Security Incidents

Westboro, MA, November 06, 2006 -

Top Layer Networks, a global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, today announced the availability of Network Security Analyzer (NSA) v4.6. Top Layer’s Network Security Analyzer provides security event management, real-time alerting and flexible reporting for users of the company’s IPS 5500 intrusion prevention solution.

Top Layer’s Network Security Analyzer helps organizations save time and effort in day-to-day security monitoring and incident response by providing enterprise-wide security intelligence. Used in conjunction with Top Layer’s IPS 5500, NSA 4.6 includes real-time monitoring and correlated alerting, forensics and investigative root cause analysis, reporting and monitoring portals, and compliance audit lifecycle management to help companies strengthen their overall security posture.

“Security monitoring and incident response are important components of an enterprise’s comprehensive intrusion prevention strategy,” said Peter Rendall, president and CEO of Top Layer Networks. “The latest enhancements to Top Layer’s Network Security Analyzer product provide more options for users to classify, report on and protect an organization from today’s bevy of cyber threats. Utilized with the IPS 5500 intrusion prevention solution, the NSA provides valuable insight that delivers the enterprise-wide security intelligence necessary to better understand and respond to events on the network, actively protecting against them in real-time.”

New features in the NSA 4.6 focus on advanced alerting, specialized classification capabilities, usability and management enhancements, and more robust reporting functionality:

Advanced Alerting

· Advanced Alerting - Allows users to set alert correlation interval, severity of alerts, precedence and negation per alert rule, and pattern analysis based on filter expressions

Specialized Classification Capabilities

· Event Classification - Allows a user to classify events based on each policy and apply what queries will be affected by the classification

· Threat Level Classification - Allows users to change the event severity of the threat level based on polices

Usability and Management Enhancements

· Workbench Improvements - Allows users to quickly drilldown and filter on any event in real-time

· Integrated Security Center - Allows combined Reporting and Monitoring views

· Enhanced User Management - Allows users to be limited per reporting category, query and per device monitors

Robust Reporting Functionality

· Security Center Reporting Templates - Allows users to run and export reports using templates, “similar to” profiles, Enhanced Forensics with drilldown capabilities

· Enhanced Reporting- Historical attack reports for devices (past month, week, day and current comparison) & On Demand Report Customization

· Enhanced Compliance Reports - Addition of VISA PCI reporting

Pricing and Availability

The Network Security Analyzer software is included with the purchase of every IPS 5500 unit. V4.6 is available immediately.

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 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. Top Layer has received significant 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 a 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 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.

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