Strategic Alliances

BT Counterpane strategic alliances partners help serve the needs of some of our largest enterprise and government customers requiring global reach, dedicated data centers and the broadest range of outsourced security systems management available anywhere.

Juniper Networks is revolutionizing the economics of global information exchange. Their purpose-built, high-performance IP platforms enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. The Juniper Networks Intrusion Detection and Prevention products (Juniper Networks IDP) provide comprehensive and easy to use protection against current and emerging threats at both the application and network layer. BT Counterpane and Juniper offer joint customers the ability to manage and monitor Juniper's Netscreen Firewall and IDP devices.

LogLogic makes Log Management appliances that provide high-performance log data aggregation, analysis, and retention for enterprise IT departments. The scalable LogLogic network infrastructure combines with BT Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring Services to significantly accelerate response time to data center security and performance events, while providing complete log data archives for compliance and legal protection. LogLogic's LX and ST product families complement BT Counterpane's event correlation capabilities by providing a high-performance log aggregation infrastructure, alerts to warn of unusual or suspicious behavior in a customer s network, and raw log data archival capabilities for compliance, legal protection, and network forensics.

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) creates best-of-breed computer security solutions that prevent intrusions on networks and protect computer systems from the next generation of blended attacks and threats. McAfee IntruShield's market-leading intrusion prevention solutions redefine the deployment of network security by enabling Enterprises, Carriers and Service Providers to deploy the most comprehensive intrusion prevention for proactive threat protection against known, zero-day, DoS and encrypted attacks. BT Counterpane's Managed Security Services provides common customers with support for McAfee's anti-virus and intrusion prevention security products in the event that customers lack the staff required to install, configure and maintain devices themselves.

MessageLabs is the leading provider of messaging security and management services to businesses worldwide. Delivered across a globally distributed platform at the Internet level, their fully managed services ensure the integrity of electronic communications, allowing clients to manage and reduce risk while securing their critical infrastructure and information. BT Counterpane and MessageLabs partner to protect customers against email spam and viruses as well as enable customers to enforce email security policies in relation to image and text content in inbound and outbound email traffic. Our dynamic, fully managed "in the cloud" solution eliminates email attacks and abuse while lowering the cost of managing email services.

Prolexic Technologies provides cutting edge solutions that protect Internet operations from the debilitating service disruptions caused by DDoS attacks. Prolexic's patent-pending Intrusion Prevention Network (IPN) offers "clean pipe" connectivity that keeps its clients' internet-facing infrastructures free of DDoS traffic, worms, and other server exploits.

Sourcefire, Inc., a world leader in intrusion prevention, is transforming the way organizations manage and minimize network security risks with its 3D Approach - Discover, Determine, Defend - to securing real networks in real-time. The company's ground-breaking network defense system unifies intrusion and vulnerability management technologies to provide customers with the most effective network security available. BT Counterpane currently provides monitoring and management of Sourcefire intrusion detection and intrusion prevention devices to enable customers that don't have the resources to install and manage devices in house. BT Counterpane is also a member of Sourcefire's new Certified Snort Integrator Program. For more information about Sourcefire, please visit www.sourcefire.com.

TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, is the leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems. The TippingPoint IPS is one of the most decorated in its industry. For a full list of awards, visit http://www.tippingpoint.com/products_certifications.html. TippingPoint's innovative approach offers customers unmatched network-based security with unrivaled economics, ultra-high performance, scalability and reliability. BT Counterpane and TippingPoint combine to provide customers with alerting and reporting on administrative events and firewall traffic logs on Tipping Point equipment.

Verano, Inc. and BT Counterpane have partnered together to offer an industry-specific cybersecurity monitoring service to protect systems against unauthorized access, changes, and exploits of vulnerabilities in our clients' control environment. The partnership integrates Verano's Industrial Defender into BT Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring Service, providing customers with 24x7 proactive and consistent monitoring & reporting of real-time control environments. This solution allows for round the clock analysis of network and system events in real-time, providing the ultimate in security, thus reducing risk and unnecessary liability exposures, at a reduced cost. This also provides a solid foundation to customers NERC and FERC initiative. Verano is the leading provider of security and SCADA solutions for mission-critical industries. Verano is a trusted supplier to more than 220 industrial enterprises in power generation, utilities, energy, transportation and process manufacturing industries. These customers represent more than 2,200 global system installations.