Parabon Announces Blitz Distributed Testing Service, Plans Live Fire Denial-of-Service Exercises at DISA Conference

First Frontier-Powered Application in New Cyber Security Suite Provides
Extensible Framework for Extreme-Scale Distributed Testing
RESTON, Va.--(Business Wire)--
Parabon Computation, a veteran provider of extreme-scale grid computing software
and services, announced today the Parabon Blitz™ Distributed Testing Service, an
online testing service built around the first of the company`s new
Frontier-powered cyber security applications. Using thousands of computers on
its massive online compute grid to generate targeted network traffic, Parabon
will use Blitz to provide a variety of distributed test and monitoring services
for customer websites, web services and other service-oriented architecture
(SOA) applications. Customers can also conduct Blitz tests within their own
internal networks with Frontier Enterprise, Parabon`s enterprise grid software
solution that uses idle capacity across an organization`s IT infrastructure to
power grid applications.

Parabon plans its first public demonstration of Blitz in Anaheim this week at
the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
Customer Partnership Conference, where it will conduct live fire
denial-of-service exercises. Dr. Steven Armentrout, Founder and CEO of Parabon,
stated before the conference, "There`s a lot of talk about the importance of
cyber security, but few realize the degree to which many important government
network services are vulnerable to cyber attack. The DISA Conference is a
fitting venue for a white-hat wakeup call."

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, in which thousands of centrally
controlled, disparately located computers bombard a network target with more
requests than it can handle, is among the most effective means of disabling
network resources. DDoS assaults paralyzed Estonian government networks for two
weeks in 2007 and the incidence of such attacks is on the rise. The Pentagon has
reportedly spent more than $100 million in the past six months responding to
cyber attacks like those recently found to have comprised the U.S. electric
power system.

Dr. Steven Hutchison, Test and Evaluation Executive at DISA, says that cyber
"red teaming" (simulating large-scale cyber attacks) is an essential part of the
U.S. cyber preparedness program. "As we move more and more into net-centric
operations, the network and our information become prime targets for our
enemies. Therefore, we must be able to discover and fix vulnerabilities before
we field new capabilities; red team testing is essential if we are to do that."

Parabon Blitz supports red teaming by coordinating thousands of computers on a
Frontier grid to provide testing at scales comparable to a full-on cyber attack
- a major improvement over stand-alone testing solutions that generate network
load from a single source. In addition to cyber security, Blitz is also an
effective platform for testing and validating the functionality of heavily
trafficked sites and services.

Blitz comes with several common traffic generators and its plug-in interface
makes it easy to add others. Intending to leverage this extensibility, Parabon
is in active discussions with other vendors of testing software about
integrating vendor-specific plug-ins into the offering. "Blitz is built on a
programmable framework, so it`s natural to partner with other testing vendors to
provide customers an easy means of running existing tests at scale," Armentrout
stated.

The browser-based Blitz application is another example of Parabon`s growing
number of Grid Software as a Service (GSaaS) offerings and is the first of
several applications comprising the Parabon Cyber Security Suite, all of which
are powered by the company`s Frontier Grid Platform. Whether used online or
within the enterprise, Frontier applications get their computational power from
the idle capacity of the computers on which they run, which allows customers to
avoid costly hardware expenditures. Moreover, the distributed nature of Frontier
makes possible powerful grid applications, such as Blitz, that cannot be
implemented on traditional centralized computing architectures. "Many
applications require the computational scale or distributed capabilities of a
grid," says Armentrout, "and realistic load and performance testing is a great
example."

About Parabon® Computation

Parabon is a veteran provider of grid computing software and solutions,
delivering affordable, extreme-scale Computation on Demand to customers across a
wide variety of market sectors. A year after its 1999 founding, the company
launched its flagship product, the Frontier® Grid Platform - a software solution
that aggregates computational capacity of existing IT resources and delivers it
as a flexible and scalable utility service. Frontier can be deployed internally,
harnessing the excess computing power of an organization's existing enterprise
assets; it can also be deployed across a virtualized data center, providing a
complementary high-performance computing (HPC) service for cloud computing
infrastructures. Finally, customers can tap into the power of the Parabon
Computation Grid, the company`s online utility computing service. For more
information, visit www.Parabon.com.

Media Contact:
Larkin Communications for Parabon Computation
Kim Larkin, 202-391-5205
klarkin@larkincomm.com

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