LANCOPE PARTNERS WITH NSA AND MULTIPLE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RESEARCH TEAMS TO DEVELOP THERMINATOR Project Therminator Brings Together Best-of-Breed Information Security Technology from Government Research and Private Sectors

Atlanta-based Lancope announced a technology transfer licensing and cooperative research and development agreement for a joint initiative with NSA and multiple defense department research entities to build Therminator, an appliance for advanced information security, for both government and private deployment.

ATLANTA, Ga., November 21, 2002 -- Lancope, Inc., the provider of the award-winning StealthWatch for behavior-based intrusion detection, today announced a technology transfer licensing and cooperative research and development agreement for a joint initiative with NSA and multiple defense department research entities to build Therminator, an appliance for advanced information security, for both government and private deployment. Lancope will work with the National Security Agency (NSA) and joint Department of Defense (DoD) research teams to pursue an aggressive development schedule that integrates Lancopes high-speed data flow architecture in StealthWatch with the NSA and DoDs complex data reduction and data visualization technology.

Bringing together best-of-breed technologies across government and private sectors, Project Therminator will produce a graphical representation of network traffic that allows information security specialists and network administrators to recognize and understand the impact of incoming and outgoing network attacks in real-time. Armed with this enhanced network security technology, government agencies and private organizations can provide more proactive protection of sensitive and classified data.

"The threat to computerized networks is growing - in sophistication, capability, and activity levels. Script-based intrusion detection systems [IDSs] do exactly what they are scripted to do and we must and will continue to employ them," said Major General Dave Bryan, United States Army, Commanding Officer of the Joint Task Force for Computer Network Operations. The problem is that we must also expect the threat to know this and to do the unexpected. In other words, the sophisticated threat I am most concerned with is not going to behave in an expected way. Therefore, we must carefully script our systems to look for the unexpected because they are going to camouflage their malicious activity as otherwise normal activity."

According to Dr. John Copeland, founder, chairman and chief scientist with Lancope and the technology transfer chair at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering with Georgia Institute of Technology, Therminator will identify sophisticated cyber-war attacks that are launched by renegade or terrorist organizations and cannot be detected using traditional signature-based intrusion detection systems." He adds, By integrating Lancopes proven behavior-based IDS with the NSA and DoDs data visualization technology, we are developing superior, proactive information security technology that helps public agencies combat cyber war and gives private organizations the additional ability to recognize sophisticated denial of service attacks in real-time."

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Major General Bryan asserts, Therminator is one very promising approach to this challenge. Dr. Dave Ford, Project Therminator joint research coordinator, myself and many others have worked together on this for more than two years - from the theoretical to the practical - and I am encouraged that business interests have come forward to mature this thinking and this work into a commercially viable product."

Copeland affirms, The governments collaboratively developed defense technology is very much in line with Lancopes information security strategy and integrates seamlessly with StealthWatch for advanced, proactive behavior-based intrusion detection. This type of partnership bridges the best elements of GOTS [Government Off The Shelf] with COTS [Commercial Off The Shelf] to bear the very latest information assurance challenges."

Dr. Dave Ford, Special Assistant to the NSAs Secure Network Technology Office adds, Maintaining US information superiority in a fast paced information-based economy invites us to rethink pieces of the traditional acquisition process from the R&D phase through to actual fielding. The success of our mission depends on establishing committed relationships between government and private industry and launching co-development initiatives to build, test, field and support superior solutions within the required timeframe."

About Lancope
Lancope is the provider of Advanced Threat Management solutions designed to combat todays advanced hacking exploits and corporate network misuse on enterprise networks. The companys flagship product, StealthWatch, is a behavior-based Intrusion Detection System that enables intelligent alarming, provides advanced network surveillance, operates at Gigabit speeds, recognizes unknown threats and creates a forensic trail of network activity. StealthWatch recently received the Innovation In Infrastructure Award (i3) in the security category from the editors of eWeek Magazine and PC Magazine at Spring NetWorld+Interop 2002 and was named Most Impressive" by eWeek in 2001. Installed on the networks of Fortune 1000 organizations and government entities, StealthWatch protects the critical assets of todays largest enterprises. For more information, visit www.lancope.com.

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