Counterpane Extends Protection against Unauthorized Activity with New Solutions for Oracle, Microsoft SQL and IBM Platforms

Reinforces Leadership in Data Security with Protection for Databases and Operating Systems

Mountain View, CA, October 9, 2006 – Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., The Managed Security Company and the authority on enterprise security, today announced new data security solutions (http://www.counterpane.com/compliance.html) for Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases, as well as for IBM operating systems. The latest offerings augment Counterpane's Application Monitoring & Security Auditing solution, announced Oct. 2, that protects against unauthorized activity - a primary concern for enterprises worldwide.

"Over 90 million records containing sensitive personal information have been exposed due to security breaches since ChoicePoint's data breach in February of 2005," said Doug Howard, Counterpane's Chief Operating Officer. "You read about a computer hacker accessing approximately 34,000 Vystar Credit Union members' personal information, including social security numbers and birthdates. Recently, you also read about a Cleveland Clinic employee stealing personal information from electronic files, selling it to her cousin who owned Advanced Medical Claims and used it to file fraudulent Medicare claims totaling over $2.8 million."

"Protecting corporate and customer data is required by privacy laws in many states now," said Bruce Schneier, Counterpane's Chief Technology Officer. "Counterpane anticipates the market's data security concerns and compliance needs well in advance of peer managed security service providers. We have delivered various levels of log monitoring – from network, operating systems to business applications – since the founding of Counterpane in 1999. Our recently expanded support for SAP, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft SQL demonstrates our commitment and leadership in continually protecting customers' critical information assets."

With the new data security solutions, Counterpane now gives IBM OS400 and OS390 RACF users the ability to detect security policy violations, by collecting, correlating, and audit tracking unauthorized activity – be it external attacks or internal exploits. Counterpane now extends to Oracle and Microsoft SQL database users the same protection against unauthorized activity, while empowering them to improve compliance with the ability to monitor, correlate and audit transactions pertinent to meeting privacy law requirements, such as those in California SB1386 and similar privacy laws in twenty-one other states, EU Privacy Act, SOX, FISMA, HIPAA, and so forth. These laws require enterprises and government agencies to monitor transactions within the business applications that control their financial processes, as well as those that maintain consumer and customer data.

Counterpane delivers to customers the industry-leading integrated data security solutions through its Managed Security Services. Key benefits include monitoring and auditing:

• All user authorization for access privilege and privilege escalation
• All login attempts for detecting unauthorized access violations
• All administrative user activity
• Any customer-provisioned list of critical transactions for detecting policy violations

Counterpane's integrated solutions exemplify the company's innovative tradition, both technologically and in service delivery, across every supported platform. Customers can elect to perform cross-platform and cross-vendor correlation, in real time, for every normalized message and from every supported platform available in Socrates, Counterpane's global correlation and analysis engine. Customers can further benefit from Counterpane's iron-clad service level agreements, including guaranteed service activation within five days, and 100% availability for Security Operations Centers.

About Counterpane

Counterpane is The Managed Security Company. As the authority on enterprise security, Counterpane's Managed Security Services ensure customers' business continuity, improved compliance, and protection from financial loss. Monitoring over 550 networks worldwide to gather, correlate and evaluate an unparalleled volume of information, we give our customers the industry's broadest real-time view of, and response to, global IT security threats. Leveraging our experienced professionals and state-of-the-art security solutions, Counterpane delivers comprehensive protection and real economies of scale and efficiencies of cost. For more information, visit www.counterpane.com.