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ATLANTA, March 20, 2006 – Lancope, Inc., a pioneer and market leader in network behavior analysis (NBA) and response solutions with the most enterprise customers, today announced that its StealthWatch™ System 5.1 has achieved Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2 Augmented (EAL2) certification. In addition, StealthWatch is also the only NBA and response solution to adhere to a validated U.S. Government Protection Profile, which demands conformance with guidelines established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA). The Common Criteria certification and Protection Profile Conformance processes are comprised of unbiased third-party evaluations of security technology and devices. Science Applications International Corporation’s (SAIC) Accredited Testing and Evaluation Labs, a third-party testing facility, performed the evaluations, which show that StealthWatch conforms to standards sanctioned by the International Standards Organization.

“Common Criteria certification is a strong validation of StealthWatch’s ability to meet the needs of the government marketplace,” said Harland LaVigne, president and CEO of Lancope. “By providing the only NBA and response solution to achieve this U.S. Government certification with conformance to the select U.S. Department of Defense Protection Profile, we make it easier for our resellers and systems integrator partners to provide their government customers with the most qualified security product to secure their internal networks.”

“We’re pleased that Lancope worked with SAIC to evaluate its StealthWatch system,” said Julie Taylor, assistant vice president and division manager of SAIC’s Accredited Testing and Evaluation Labs. “By going through the Common Criteria certification process and achieving EAL2, Lancope is showing StealthWatch users, especially in federal agencies, that it is committed to meeting stringent security standards.”

Common Criteria certification validates StealthWatch’s ability to protect enterprise assets and business transactions with the leading high-performance solution for ensuring network integrity through behavior-based anomaly detection and network intelligence.

U.S. Government Protection Profiles are an implementation-independent combination of security objectives, security related functional requirements, information assurance requirements, assumptions, and rationale. The NIST and the NSA have agreed to cooperate on the development of security requirements for key technology areas necessary for the protection of federal information systems and networks, including those comprising the critical infrastructure within the United States. For more information about the Common Criteria evaluation and validation scheme or the U.S. Government Protection Profiles, visit http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/index.html or http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/pp/index.html.

The validated StealthWatch System, which includes StealthWatch NC for native flow capture, StealthWatch Xe for NetFlow and StealthWatch Xe for sFlow appliances, provides enhanced network and host level security as well as powerful visualization of network activity to optimize security and network operations, and protect internal networks against zero-day attacks, internal misuse and unnecessary network exposures.

For more information on StealthWatch please contact Armana Security on (01344) 780000 or info@armana.co.uk