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Top Layer Launches New Secure Circle Partnership Program

Westboro, MA, February 13, 2006 -

Top Layer Networks, the global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, today launched its new Secure Circle Partnership Program. The new three-tiered Top Layer Secure Circle Partnership Program is designed to foster stronger, more dynamic and mutually beneficial relationships between Top Layer and its North America channel partners.

”Top Layer is committed to building a strong reseller channel that will help fuel the company’s growth, and to do so we’ve established our new Secure Circle Partnership Program,” said Peter Rendall, president and CEO of Top Layer Networks. “Our IPS 5500 family of intrusion prevention solutions has garnered significant recognition from the top independent labs and testing facilities at influential publications. Our partners can leverage the IPS 5500’s leadership position to provide proven intrusion prevention solutions to customers and take their share of the rapidly-growing IPS market.”

The program offers increased rewards for partners who are most committed to Top Layer solutions. The three partnership levels – Premier Secure Circle Partner, Secure Circle Partner, Associate Circle Partner – provide the flexibility necessary to meet evolving business needs while succeeding in today’s competitive information security markets. The three levels of partnership are determined by several requirements, including staff certification; channel marketing activities; technical support; annual revenue expectations; sales forecasts; volume rebates; and demonstration equipment.

Highlights of the new Secure Circle Partnership program include:

· Higher Reward for Committed Partners: Top Layer has broadened its incentives, making more margin available to Secure Circle Partners who maintain technical certification and sales authorization, meet sales targets and acquire new customers

· Training Investment: Top Layer has committed further spending to an already successful on-site and on-line curriculum for sales and technical training for its channel partners

· Improved Partner Effectiveness: Top Layer is committed to providing Secure Circle Partners with up-to-date sales support materials, deal registration and lead management

Top Layer supports its channel with dedicated, proactive account management, direct-touch sales assistance, and access to its engineering, support and marketing specialists – all committed to helping the Top Layer channel succeed. The Secure Circle Program also provides partners with generous discounts, rebates, marketing co-op funds, and more to help partners reach their objectives. Program Benefits include:

· Lead Generation

· Deal Protection

· Top Layer Secure Circle Portal

· Education and Training

· IPS Demonstration Site

· Partner Hotline

· Partner Communications

· Access to Managed Security Service Providers

· Extra Rebates

· Top Layer Educational End User Webinars

· Co-Op Marketing Funds

“Top Layer’s IPS 5500 is amongst the best intrusion prevention products on the market and gives resellers an impressive security solution to bring to customers that have been seeking proactive protection from the rising number of sophisticated cyber threats,” said Stacy Griggs, Vice President and General Manager Philadelphia Branch of Pinkerton Computer Consultants, Inc., recently acquired by K Force. “Top Layer’s new Secure Circle Partnership program empowers Pinkerton to sell a great IPS product while creating a lucrative financial opportunity in the fast-growing IPS market.”

For more information on Top Layer’s Secure Circle Partnership Program, please visit http://www.toplayer.com/content/partners/channel_partners/index.jsp or call 508-870-1300.

About the Top Layer IPS 5500

The IPS 5500 family of products offers the strongest levels of network protection, performance and reliability on the market today. By combining stateful firewall, content-based IPS/IDS, and attack mitigation algorithms, the IPS 5500 is the only solution that provides Three Dimensional Protection (3DP) against undesired access, malicious content and rate-based attacks. Top Layer’s architecture enables the IPS 5500 to protect enterprises and service providers from sophisticated, hybrid attacks in real-time while enabling the highest throughput of legitimate traffic.

Top Layer Networks’ family of network intrusion prevention solutions, the IPS 5500 series, has received top accolades from the world’s most prestigious labs and influential publications. In 2005, Top Layer received the most awards and achievements of any IPS, including recognition from the NSS Group, Computer Reseller News, Information Security Magazine, SC Magazine, IT Week, Service Provider Weekly, the Tolly Group, and more.

About Top Layer Networks

Top Layer Networks is dedicated to its role as the leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), developing and bringing to market network security infrastructure solutions that help commercial and government organizations protect their critical on-line assets from the losses and risks associated with cyber threats. Its family of IPS appliances is designed with “Three Dimensional Protection” that provides the most advanced protection capabilities against known and unknown attacks at the highest tested performance rates. Top Layer Networks is headquartered in Massachusetts, USA with sales and support presence in Canada, Germany, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

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