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Northwestern University Selects StealthWatch for Enhanced Network Protection and Management

ATLANTA, Ga., September 8th, 2003 - Northwestern University, a preeminent institution of higher education, has selected StealthWatch™ by Lancope to protect and manage the university's distributed network infrastructure while reducing overall costs. Northwestern will deploy StealthWatch across its network supporting over 20,000 students, faculty and staff with approximately 50,000 internal IP addresses at campuses in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois.

StealthWatch will enable Northwestern to optimize the security and performance of its network by detecting unknown and known attacks, exposing hidden security risks and ensuring network policy compliance. Based on innovative behavior-based analysis, StealthWatch delivers insightful security and network intelligence at the network and host level while significantly reducing false positives and eliminating the need to continuously manage attack signatures.

"After carefully evaluating several intrusion detection systems (IDS) from leading vendors, we feel StealthWatch has distinguished itself as the best solution for identifying, prioritizing and mitigating nefarious behavior in our network without creating false positive overload," said Roger Safian, information security coordinator for Northwestern. "With its hierarchical approach to managing host policies and auto-tuning capability, StealthWatch quickly overcame our initial skepticism about the ability of behavior-based solutions to work in our dynamic, distributed environment."

"We are pleased that Northwestern selected our next-generation StealthWatch solution to protect its network and digital assets against an ever-evolving spectrum of external and internal threats," said Harland LaVigne, president and CEO of Lancope. "Northwestern joins our expanding roster of higher education customers who increasingly require solutions like StealthWatch that can effectively and efficiently protect dynamic, high-speed networks."

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 Magazine5/10/2005. 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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