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Network Intrusion Prevention Global Leader
Company Statistics
The Need for Defense-In-Depth
The Solution: IPS 5500
Management
Corporate Investors
Board of Directors

Network Intrusion Prevention Global Leader
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 (3DP) that provides the most advanced protection capabilities against known and unknown attacks at the highest tested performance rates.

Company Statistics
Customers: Over 1,700 global corporate and government customers in 22 countries
Markets: Network security solutions for Global 2000 Enterprises, Service Providers, and Governments
Industry focus: Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail/E-Commerce, Government, Education, Critical Infrastructure, and Service Providers
Technology: Patented ASIC-based, high performance, deep packet inspection hardware architecture and innovative intrusion prevention software, combined with leading management solution (SecureCommand) and the TopResponse Automated Update service
Experience: IP networking and security expertise combined with mission critical solution deployment.

The Need for Defense-In-Depth -- Customers Demand Network Intrusion Prevention An increasing number of organizations are using network intrusion prevention systems in addition to other network security measures to mitigate information security risks. This is a generally positive development, as inline intrusion prevention systems with deep packet inspection capabilities are critical to protecting corporate networks. However, even among those forward-looking companies that have adopted IPS, too many are doing so in an incomplete fashion, focusing only on certain risks that have top-of-mind currency, thereby exposing them to serious varieties of risks they had not considered.

Enterprises must have a sound intrusion prevention strategy across the three threat dimensions: Undesired access, wherein intruders gain access to such valuable assets as proprietary intellectual property or customer identity/credit information; malicious content, including viruses, spyware and other types, which can cause troubles that range from mild annoyances to cost-prohibitive extended network downtime and loss of stored material; and rate-based attacks, which intentionally overload computers or networks with garbage traffic for the purpose of preventing legitimate traffic from reaching its destination, resulting in lost revenue and brand damage for the attacked. A three-dimensional approach which addresses all three of these attack techniques is critical to prevent losses due to complex hybrid attacks that use multiple techniques to quickly spread malicious executables, techniques that can beat traditional security point measures.

The Solution: IPS 5500 E-Series
In order to best combat the threats posed by undesired access, malicious content, and rate-based attacks (and complex hybrid attacks that use multiple elements of these to circumvent static, one-dimensional security tools), enterprises should select and deploy a network IPS solution that addresses all three in an integrated, mutually-reinforcing fashion - as Top Layer Networks does with its "Three Dimensional Protection" (3DP) approach.

Management Team
Peter Rendall, president and chief executive officer
Paul Bogonis, chief financial officer
Barry Spinney, chief technology officer
Mike Cooper, vice president, engineering and customer services
Joao Melo, vice president, operations
Ken Pappas, vice president, marketing and security strategist
Michael Paquette, vice president and chief strategy officer
Jim Williams, vice president of worldwide sales

Corporate Investors
Crosshill Financial Group
Loudwater Investment Partners

Board of Directors
Edward Forwood, Loudwater Investment Partners
Stephen X. Graham, Crosshill Financial Group
Peter Rendall, Top Layer Networks