NetContinuum Recognized As a "Hot Company" for 2007 by Info Security Products Guide

Advancing the Consolidation Trend in Application Controllers Wins NetContinuum Strong Market Support

January 31, 2007  — Santa Clara, CA

NetContinuum, the leader in Instant, Secure Application Delivery and DMZ Consolidation, today announced that Info Security Products Guide, a leading publication on security-related products and technologies has named NetContinuum one of its Info Security "Hot Companies" winners for 2007. Selected from an industry analysis of more than 500 security vendors around the world, NetContinuum won this prestigious honor based on the selection criteria of products, people, performance and potential behind the company's growing success. The evaluation process also included strong entrepreneurial spirit, seasoned executives with relevant experience, clear understanding of the security market, products and solutions that are positioned to take advantage of the emerging industry opportunities, well developed revenue-growth model and clearly planned expansion strategies. In 2006, Info Security Products Guide honored NetContinuum with the Shaping Info Security 2006 Industry award in addition to awarding the NC-2000 Application Gateway with the Customer Trust 2006 Global Excellence award.

NetContinuum's family of Application Controllers (Gateways and Firewalls) protect Internet-exposed web and web service applications from attack, while also increasing the performance and responsiveness of those applications. The Controllers consist of a suite of application security and acceleration software features along with an intuitive management GUI and real-time Dashboard. NetContinuum provides a comprehensive Application Access Control (AAC) module on its controller appliances encompassing a suite of certificate management, authentication, authorization and single sign-on capabilities. NetContinuum's Application Controllers also greatly enhance the value that an enterprise gets from implementing Enterprise-class Web Access Management (WAM) and Identity Access Management (IAM) solutions like Computer Associates eTrust® SiteMinder.

"Security continues to grow as a priority for organizations world wide and NetContinuum is leading the market in offering a single point of policy enforcement and control with their award winning application controllers," said Rake Narang, Managing Editor of Info Security Products Guide published by Silicon Valley Communications.

"NetContinuum is excited to receive the "Hot Company 2007" recognition by Info Security Products Guide that further validates the strong market demand for web application security," said Varun Nagaraj, CEO of NetContinuum. "This award builds on the broad industry recognition that we achieved in 2006 for validating NetContinuum's session-based application proxy approach as the best practices model for complete control over application security and delivery."

About Silicon Valley Communications Awards
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About NetContinuum
NetContinuum application controllers efficiently deploy, secure and manage enterprise web applications. NetContinuum Application Gateways enable rapid, secure deployment of new enterprise applications. Our Web Application Firewalls enable data center teams to immediately secure existing enterprise applications. NetContinuum was the first in the industry to define and implement a comprehensive and integrated controller appliance, and continues to lead the industry with its breadth of security features, real-world performance and ease of use. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.