MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, and LARGO, Maryland, September 25, 2003 - Securify, Inc., a pioneer and leader in network security management, and SFA, Inc., a leading provider of technical support services to U.S. government agencies, today announced a strategic alliance to help safeguard networks used by government agencies. Through this alliance, SFA is now an approved Securify Channel Partner. This partnership will allow SFA to employ Securify SecurVantageTM, a product suite that provides vulnerability management and compliance monitoring within an integrated policy-based framework, to rapidly assess and baseline customers’ security policies and postures. Deployment of this product suite will ensure that all network security devices actually meet security policy mandates. SFA now will also provide a variety of professional services to help agencies successfully deploy the SecurVantage product suite within their organizations to manage and maintain network security.

Securify SecurVantage will enable SFA’s Government Services Division to uncover the effective security policy of an agency’s existing operations, revealing the security actually being achieved by routers, firewalls, and other network defenses. SecurVantage provides SFA with a continuous, objective, and measurable picture of actual changes in network traffic in order to expose potential security lapses. In addition to employing SecurVantage in its comprehensive network security solutions, SFA will supply the necessary professional services to help customers rapidly deploy SecurVantage, including system integration, policy development, security analysis, and methodology support.

“SecurVantage is ideal for rapidly assessing a network’s security posture and quickly pinpointing where potential problems may lie. This product offers our customers the best solution for developing, implementing, and monitoring the security policies of their networks,” said Stephen Corey, vice president of SFA’s Government Services Division. “With the dynamic nature of today’s modern networks, SecurVantage offers government organizations a powerful way to ensure that they always achieve the level of security they require.”

“SecurVantage is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard for network security management within the federal government, and our partnership with SFA is the latest example of this success,” said Carl Wright, vice president of federal operations at Securify. “SFA is well respected within the federal government, and we are excited to be working with them to help ensure the security of government networks.”

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 that network traffic must comply with—a "policy" describing the "correct" behavior of the network—based on corporate security policy, business practices, and regulatory requirements. Using the integrated policy framework, 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 SFA's Government Services Division
SFA, Inc., a 100 percent employee-owned company, was founded in 1969 as a leading supplier of high technology services to the government and industry. Over the past 34 years, SFA has evolved into a superior provider of diverse software, hardware, and network products and engineering services for defense, communications, and information technology for multiple Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) programs and systems. The Government Services Division provides highly skilled professional teams of scientists; analysts; hardware, software, network, and security engineers; and domain experts to support complex and diverse technology initiatives and programs for federal agencies including the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Food and Drug Administration, and the Federal Highway Administration.

About Securify, Inc.
Securify is a pioneer and leader in network security management. The company's flagship product line, Securify SecurVantageTM, 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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