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Top Layer Networks Recognized as Top 50 Technology Innovator of 2006 by IT Week Magazine for Second Year in a Row

Westboro, MA, December 18, 2006 -

Top Layer Networks, a global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, today announced it is the recipient of IT Week’s Top 50 Innovators of 2006 Award, the second year in a row the company has received this recognition. The list was compiled by the editors of IT Week based on feedback from readers and independent research, and recognizes vendors of products and services for IT professionals who are the top in their field.

“We’re honored to have again been chosen by IT Week as a top Technology Innovator,” said Peter Rendall, president and CEO of Top Layer Networks. “This further validates our belief that innovation in the field of security must be a constant endeavor as the threat landscape continuously evolves. Top Layer’s unique approach to providing three dimensional protection from malicious content, undesired access and rate-based attacks in a single device helps today’s enterprises battle the wide variety of threats they face on a daily basis.”

This week marks the second edition of IT Week’s annual Top 50 Technology Innovators list. These awards are given out to companies whose products IT Week’s editors feel demonstrate quality and excellence in their respective fields making them the best. Ken Durham, editor of IT Week magazine, stressed that it was very hard to select the 50 winners with so many great products out there, but “in the end it boiled down to the products which went above and beyond the call of duty. We at IT Week are very happy for the opportunity to be able to recognize these products for their technology, value and excellence.”

IT Week magazine acknowledges that there’s not a single formula to determine who is the best and as such the winners span a wide range of products. For a complete list of winners see www.itweekmagazine.com/t50ti06.pdf

The winners will appear in the Monday, December 18th 2006 issue of IT Week magazine, in the order in which they’ve appeared in the magazine, as opposed to by any ranking. “They’re all winners to us,” Terry Logan, Group Publisher, Possibility Media, which publishes IT Week, was quoted as saying. “We’re very proud of these awards and of IT Week magazine for being able to put together such a great selection in its second year of publishing the list. It’s very gratifying to see how the popularity of the magazine constantly grows and we can’t wait for next year’s list.”

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 content-based IPS/IDS, stateful firewall and attack mitigation algorithms, the IPS 5500 is the only solution that provides Three Dimensional Protection (3DP) against malicious content, undesired access and rate-based attacks. Top Layer’s architecture enables the IPS 5500 to protect enterprises and service providers from sophisticated 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. Top Layer has received significant 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 a 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 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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