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Lancope Wins Outstanding Emerging Technology Business Award In the AeA Southeastern "Spirit of Endeavor" Awards Program

ATLANTA, Ga., April 25, 2003 - Lancope, Inc., the leading provider of Advanced Threat Protection solutions, today announced that it received the Outstanding Emerging Technology Business Award at the American Electronic Association's inaugural AeA Southeastern "Spirit of Endeavor" Awards Program held Wednesday, April 23, 2003, at Atlanta's Fox Theatre. In addition, Dr. John Copeland, founder, chairman and chief scientist with Lancope, was honored as a finalist for the Technology Entrepreneur Award. These Awards recognize significant individual and corporate accomplishments within the Southeastern technology community.

Lancope received the Outstanding Emerging Technology Business Award for best representing the "Spirit of Endeavor," developing cutting edge technologies, generating significant revenue growth and serving as a role model for other companies.

"Lancope is proud to accept this award and to be recognized for our success in pioneering innovative network security solutions," said Harland LaVigne, president and CEO of Lancope. "This tremendous honor reflects Lancope's continued focus on providing next-generation solutions that meet the evolving and complex network security needs of today's enterprises. The combination of this award with the Series B round of funding in March and recent customer announcements, including the NYPD and the Georgia Technology Authority, adds significant momentum to Lancope's growth and future success."

Lancope is pleased to be associated with fellow AeA Southeastern "Spirit of Endeavor" Awards winners:

    Technology Entrepreneur - Subramonian Shankar, American Megatrends

    Technology Innovation - Randy McCoy, CheckFree (CKFR)

    Outstanding Leadership - Tom Noonan, Internet Security Systems (ISSX)

    Leadership in Technology Education - Internet Security Systems (ISSX)

    Community Service - EMS Technologies (ELMG)

    Key AeA Volunteer - Dick Cook, MAPICS, Inc. (MAPX)

    Technology Innovation by an Educational Institution - Peachtree Elementary

About AeA

Advancing the business of technology, AeA is the nation's largest high-tech trade association. AeA represents more than 3,000 companies with 1.8 million employees. These 3000+ companies span the high-technology spectrum, from software, semiconductors, medical devices and computers to Internet technology, advanced electronics and telecommunications systems and services. With 17 regional U.S. councils and offices in Brussels and Beijing, AeA offers a unique global policy grassroots capability and a wide portfolio of valuable business services and products for the high-tech industry. AeA has been the accepted voice of the U.S. technology community since 1943. For more information, visit www.aeanet.org.

About Lancope and StealthWatch™

Founded in 2000, Lancope is the leading provider of next-generation network integrity solutions that deliver behavior-based threat defense, policy enforcement and insightful network intelligence. With integrated visibility across network security, traffic characteristics and host-level activity, Lancope's StealthWatch solutions provide unparalleled network protection and optimization. Both OPSEC and Common Criteria certified, StealthWatch has received numerous accolades. Most recently StealthWatch received a 5-star rating for technology excellence from CRN Magazine. In addition, StealthWatch has received the Innovation In Infrastructure Award from eWeek and PC Magazine and was honored "Most Impressive" by eWeek. Defending the networks of Global 2000 organizations, academic institutions and government entities, Lancope protects the critical assets of today's sophisticated enterprises. For more information, visit www.lancope.com.

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