MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, and RESTON, Virginia, September 15, 2003 - Securify, Inc., a pioneer and leader in network security policy solutions, and ARTEL Incorporated, a leader in providing information security solutions for business and government clients around the world, today announced a strategic alliance to advance government network security compliance, ensuring the myriad security devices and policies within various government agencies and departments actually accomplish the protection they were designed for. Through the partnership, ARTEL will employ the Securify SecurVantageTM automated network security management system as a key component in its arsenal of tools to rapidly assess and baseline an organization's security posture and ensure compliance for their network security solutions.

ARTEL’s Information Assurance Division will employ Securify SecurVantage to quickly reveal the true effective security policy resulting from an organization’s current security operations, highlighting the differences between the security described in the narrative security plan and the security actually being achieved by routers, firewalls and other network defenses. Unlike traditional security auditing – a subjective assessment that focuses on historic results captured as a snapshot in time – SecurVantage enables ARTEL’s security professionals to provide its customers with a continuous, objective and measurable picture of actual changes in data traffic to expose potential security lapses.

“SecurVantage will enable our team of professionals to quickly perform their information assurance tasks by instantly providing a clear picture of how well a network is behaving from a security perspective, and quickly pinpointing where potential problems may lie,” said Dennis Hotetz, deputy director, IA Group, ARTEL Incorporated. “As our customers’ dynamic networks change over time, SecurVantage will allow us to ensure they are still achieving the level of security they require.”

ARTEL’s Information Assurance Division has contracts with several U.S. government organizations, including the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), among others.

“Our partnership with ARTEL is the most recent example of the broad acceptance SecurVantage is receiving within the government marketplace as a powerful method for ensuring the efficacy of complex network security implementations and policies,” said Carl Wright, vice president of federal operations at Securify. “We look forward to working closely with the professionals at ARTEL to implement our unique approach to security compliance.”

About Securify SecurVantage
Securify SecurVantage consists of Securify SecurVantage Studio, the policy development and analysis environment; Securify SecurVantage Monitor, the monitoring and evaluation system; and Securify SecurVantage Enterprise, which aggregates and analyzes data across an enterprise. Using SecurVantage, enterprises can create a formal set of requirements network traffic must comply with – a "policy" describing the "correct" behavior of the network – based on corporate security policy and business practices. Using these requirements, SecurVantage continuously evaluates, in real time, the packets moving across the network at all levels of the protocol stack, and makes decisions as to whether or not the traffic is consistent with the policy. This information is then clearly presented in a Web-based analysis environment in a format appropriate to the specific business.

The SecurVantage solution provides detailed information on all aspects of network security, including network topology; applications and services for logical network groups; and asset vulnerabilities. Additionally, trend reports based upon policy violations can assess specific areas of network operation. These reports include violation trends by host group; root cause analysis of recurring events; total traffic and violations by type of service; device configuration status; access procedure compliance; service status by host group; and quality of service for encryption and password strength.

About ARTEL Incorporated
Since 1986, ARTEL has focused on delivering a full spectrum of information technology, information assurance and telecommunication services globally. ARTEL’s information security work includes information assurance sensor deployment (firewalls, IDS, audit servers, etc.), vulnerability assessment, certification and accreditation, system penetration analysis, network security engineering, policy development, security documentation and incident response teams. ARTEL’s corporate headquarters is located in Reston, Virginia, and the company has offices in Germany and The Netherlands. For more information, please visit the ARTEL website at www.ARTELinc.com.

About Securify, Inc.
Securify is a pioneer and leader in network security policy solutions. The company's flagship product line, Securify SecurVantage™, is an automated security system that enables customers to rapidly generate and deploy business-driven security policies, monitor networks for compliance in real time and respond proactively. This results in greater protection of network assets and significantly reduced costs. Securify is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For more information, please call (650) 812-9400 or visit the Securify web site at www.securify.com.

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