IPOLICY NETWORKS EXPANDS ASIA-PACIFIC OPERATIONS

Bolstered by Strong Growth and Widespread Customer Demand, Leader in Integrated Security Opens the Door to a Zero-Threat Network Strategy for Carriers and Enterprise Customers in China

BEIJING, China, September 19, 2006 –iPolicy Networks, provider of next-generation network security solutions, today announced the launch of its China operations in Beijing. This launch builds upon iPolicy’s rapidly growing global momentum, enabling iPolicy to support carriers and enterprise customers in China in their aim for a zero-threat network.

China’s network and application security needs are increasing rapidly, driven by the fast growing economy and the swift network infrastructure deployments in recent years. This high pace of growth requires even more attention to the security of networks and protection of privileged information. Since the patchwork approach to security policy is not sufficient to meet the broadening scope of emerging threats, organizations in China are seeking a company-wide security strategy and solution that is flexible and scalable to meet current and future security requirements. iPolicy’s integrated solution meets this need and has received widespread industry recognition; the company was positioned in the "Visionary" quadrant in the highly regarded 2006 Gartner report entitled: “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls, 1H06.”

“Today’s launch reflects iPolicy’s commitment to revolutionizing the security of networks in China, and allows us to meet rapidly growing customer demand and market expansion in Asia,” said Arun Chandra, president and CEO of iPolicy Networks. “The business benefits of iPolicy’s integrated security technology have been well established in other markets, delivering high performance with reduced total cost of ownership and management complexity. We’ve seen excellent revenue growth over the past year in these markets and look forward to expanding this momentum into China.”

iPolicy’s integrated network security solution brings together multiple threat prevention functions like intrusion prevention, stateful firewall, and content filtering – all in a single-pass deep inspection architecture – complemented by profile-based central management with support for advanced security virtualization. With the launch of iPolicy’s operations in China, network security managers in organizations in China can maintain the performance of their high-speed distributed or virtualized networks from 100 megabits to 4 gigabits per second, while mitigating DoS/DDoS attacks, blocking worms and Trojans, stopping blended threats and preventing undesirable content from entering the network -- attacks that readily penetrate conventional firewalls.

iPolicy differentiates from the many security products that deliver “sheet metal integration” of multiple security functions where packets need to be inspected and processed sequentially by each function. iPolicy’s Single-Pass Architecture™ examines packets from Layer 3 through Layer 7 for all the functions, just once, thereby maximizing security performance and minimizing delays in the network. Additionally, iPolicy empowers customers to dynamically adapt their security to address constantly emerging network security threats, and enables real-time protection actions through correlation across the multiple security functions. iPolicy Networks’ comprehensive management solution is highly scalable, unified for management of multi-security functions, and is able to support very large configurations of over 500 IPF appliances.

For sales and partner inquiries in China / Asia-Pacific region contact Tony Lee at +86 (10) 5879 3270 or email tlee@ipolicynetworks.com

About iPolicy Networks – Aim for a Zero-Threat Network™
iPolicy Networks provides next-generation integrated security solutions for organizations aiming for a Zero-Threat Network. iPolicy Networks’ Intrusion Prevention Firewall appliances utilize a deep-packet inspection based Single Pass Architecture™ that enables mid-to-large size organizations to protect against a wide range of current and emerging threats while maintaining high network performance. Its scalable policy-based management solution significantly lowers TCO of managing distributed security while providing consistent security enforcement across geographically dispersed or virtualized networks. Headquartered in Fremont, California, iPolicy Networks’ customers include some of the world's largest network service providers and leading enterprises, government, financial services and educational organizations. For more information visit www.ipolicynetworks.com or call 1.510.687.3000.
 

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