Announcing Third Brigade Deep Security Virtual Appliance, the Industry's First Coordinated...

Announcing Third Brigade Deep Security Virtual Appliance, the Industry's First
Coordinated VMsafe Solution

Third Brigade Software Uniquely Combines Network and Host-based Security
Techniques to Deliver Coordinated Virtualized Security and Compliance to
Private and Public Cloud Environments

SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA Conference, Booth #538 -- On the
eve of the anticipated launch of VMware vSphere 4, Third Brigade
(www.thirdbrigade.com), experts in server and application protection, today
announced the newest component of the Third Brigade Deep Security software
solution. Showcased this week at RSA Conference 2009 in San Francisco, the
Third Brigade Deep Security Virtual Appliance is the world's first VMsafe
API-based security software that coordinates security applied at the
hypervisor with additional protection on virtual machines to create the most
comprehensive protection solution available for VMware environments. Third
Brigade's unique combination of network and host-based security techniques
helps better ensure the protection of confidential data and assets held in
virtualized and cloud computing environments, including electronic health
records, payment cardholder data, and national security information.

Increasing security, improving performance and creating deployment convenience
and choice for organizations and service providers, Deep Security is the first
VMsafe and cloud computing security solution to enable comprehensive
protection, including application control, firewall, integrity monitoring,
intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS), log inspection, and Web
application protection, to be deployed in cloud computing environments and
centrally managed alongside virtualized and physical server resources.

"Compliance and business continuity requirements demand server security," said
Bill McGee, co-founder and vice president, products and technology at Third
Brigade. "Next-generation datacenters are targeting 100 percent
virtualization, and server protection strategies must keep pace. The new Deep
Security Virtual Appliance leverages VMsafe APIs to ensure a baseline of
security can be applied to all virtual machines and is coordinated with and
enhanced by VM-centric security to deliver unprecedented protection to dynamic
datacenters."

VMsafe is facilitating network security mechanisms, like firewall and
intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), to be integrated to
protect virtual environments. In addition to these capabilities, Deep Security
Agent software delivers critical virtual machine guest-level protection
including integrity monitoring and log inspection. Enabling an "inspect once,
act immediately" approach to virtual machine protection, Third Brigade Deep
Security Manager coordinates security processing between the Deep Security
Virtual Appliance and Deep Security Agents to enable the most efficient and
effective adherence to security policy. For example, the Deep Security Virtual
Appliance is aware of Deep Security Agents and when present, creates a faster
path of access for authorized traffic to protected systems. When Agents are
not present, the Virtual Appliance will enable a baseline of security for all
virtual machines. This coordination, centrally managed by the Deep Security
Manager software, ensures the highest levels of security using multiple
enhanced protection mechanisms for more critical assets.

"The steady transition to a dynamic, service-oriented data center is causing
IT architects to re-evaluate traditional operations and management methods.
Server virtualization technologies are increasingly leveraged to cut IT
capital and operational expenses while improving service delivery," said
Burton Group senior analyst and virtualization expert Chris Wolf. "Security is
a top concern in many virtualization projects because resources that once ran
on dedicated physical hardware will use shared physical resources once
virtualized."

Ideal for next-generation enterprise datacenter projects which are spanning
virtualization and cloud computing, and equally well suited for cloud
computing service providers hosting multi-tenant virtual environments, Deep
Security software enables virtual machines of different sensitivities to be
hosted together, with the appropriate mechanisms to ensure protection and meet
compliance requirements. This results in higher consolidation rates and allows
organizations to more fully leverage virtualization investments to further
reduce operating costs.

From Fortune 100 organizations to governments, universities and HMOs, Third
Brigade customers require comprehensive protection that simplifies and eases
the burden of security configuration and management. Third Brigade Deep
Security incorporates template-based security profiles, automated remediation
and Web-services integration for the broadest selection of applications and
server-types. The modular Deep Security solution integrates with existing IT
infrastructure (VMware vCenter, Active Directory and SIEM) to allow customers
to be quickly and continuously safeguarded with comprehensive protection that
is centralized, intelligent, and manageable.

The Third Brigade Deep Security Virtual Appliance will be available later this
year and is included in the cost of Third Brigade's unlimited virtual machine
software license for VMware ESX servers of $3,000 for comprehensive protection
capabilities (socket and core restrictions apply).

For more information visit: http://www.thirdbrigade.com.

About Third Brigade
Third Brigade (www.thirdbrigade.com) specializes in server and application
protection for dynamic datacenters. Our advanced software and vulnerability
response service allows virtual machines and physical servers to become
self-defending; safe from the latest online threats. This comprehensive,
proven protection helps customers prevent data breaches and business
disruptions. It enables compliance, supports operational cost reductions and
addresses the dynamic nature of datacenters, including virtualization and
consolidation, new service delivery models, or cloud computing. Third Brigade
also owns and maintains OSSEC, the Open Source Host Intrusion Detection
Project actively used in 50 countries around the world. Third Brigade. That's
control.

Note: "Third Brigade", "Deep Security Solutions", and the Third Brigade logo
are trademarks of Third Brigade, Inc. and may be registered in certain
jurisdictions. All other company and product names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE Third Brigade

Laura Maio of Third Brigade, Inc., +1-613-599-4505, ext. 2238, mobile,
+1-613-219-2800, laura.maio@thirdbrigade.com; or Heidi Rosenberg of Nadel
Phelan, Inc., +1-831-440-2405, heidi@nadelphelan.com