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PredatorWatch Files Patent on Micro Appliance Vulnerability Management and Clientless Quarantine Systems

Patent for Scaling Down Security and Vulnerability Management to Keep Out Hackers, Rogue Devices and Malicious Insider Attacks

PredatorWatch Inc., a leading manufacturer of turnkey enterprise security management appliances, today announced it filed a utility patent, which covers simplification of Security and Vulnerability Management Systems (SVM) into Compact Flash, Flash ROM and Micro Hard Drive deployments. Current SVM solutions are expensive and do not fit on small, low-cost appliances. This new technology will give small-to-medium size businesses (SMBs) affordable access to proactive network security, including next generation clientless Network Admission Control (NAC) through Firewall and SmartSwitch integration.

This is a major milestone in the Security and Vulnerability Management marketplace, for which IDC projects worldwide revenue to reach $3.04 billion in 2008, representing a compound annual growth rate of 20 percent, according to its report, entitled "Worldwide Security and Vulnerability Management 2004 -- 2008 Forecast and 2003 Vendor Shares: The Death of Security 3A, Part II."

Other patent claims include data replication, correlation and warehousing for reporting, trending, real-time vulnerability and gap analysis among multiple micro appliance deployments. This will enable larger geographically distributed enterprises with many branches to have a "dashboard" view of their threat and risk profiles throughout their Extranets.

"PredatorWatch believes that the market of Vulnerability Management will need to evolve just as the firewall market has evolved," said Michael Su, vice president of engineering, PredatorWatch. "We're putting a first stake in the ground with this utility patent and reference design of SVM micro appliances and next generation clientless Network Admission Control. Each Extranet is yet another backdoor to any corporate network that needs to be managed remotely. I believe this technology can close such backdoors."

This new reference design is based upon proven PredatorWatch technology currently sold by IBM to large enterprises and government organizations.

"We are pleased to have completed this research which will enable reference design licenses to deploy disruptively priced appliances to their end-customers," said Dr. John Magnus, chief scientist, PredatorWatch. "End users can now proactively defend their networks and quarantine vulnerabilities without having to install a client on every device or spend thousands of dollars on complex systems."

Organizations of all sizes invest countless hours and billions of dollars each year on network security technologies. Yet they still continue to fall prey to denial of service attacks, viruses and blended threats, hackers and worms because the real network security culprits are Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). CVEs, anything that can be exploited on any computer, are the systemic cause of over 95% of all network security breaches.

"We believe this utility patent and reference design will bring simplified Security and Vulnerability Management to businesses of all sizes," said Gary S. Miliefsky, president & CEO, PredatorWatch. "Most organizations have local area networks and other access points to the Internet, all with many backdoors open to hacker attacks and security breaches. This solution's unique ability to integrate with Firewalls and SmartSwitches will enable deployment of low-cost micro appliances that block problems and ports, not people and productivity."

About PredatorWatch

PredatorWatch, Inc. is dedicated to simplifying Enterprise Security Management. It is the only company to seamlessly integrate dynamic asset discovery and automated audits of wired and wireless devices against the federally-funded list of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), sharing data with countermeasures, automated Windows OS patching, security policy building tools, and confidential regulatory compliance reporting. The Auditor(TM) product line provides a simple dashboard and one-click approach that helps IT managers and security consultants proactively protect network assets, CFOs meet compliance regulations and CEOs ensure business continuity. Based in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, PredatorWatch is privately held. For more information, visit .

NOTE TO EDITORS: Quotes from early adopter customers and photos of beta release micro appliances using this reference design are available upon request. Please contact either David Resnic or Keith Giannini of Schwartz Communications at 781-684-0770 or predatorwatch@schwartz-pr.com.

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