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Solutions Sherweb Turns to Top Layer Networks for IPS Protection Against Cyber Attacks

Westboro, MA, January 22, 2007 -

Top Layer Networks, a global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, announced today the implementation of its Top Layer IPS 5500 in one of Canada?s top web hosting company. Top Layer will help Solution SherWeb, a global provider of Hosted Exchange and Web hosting solutions fight effectively cyber attacks and help protect its customer?s critical online assets from a growing list of targeted network threats. Thanks to this new equipment, SherWeb will be able to better serve its ever growing international customer base. With more than 25,000 websites, the company is currently serving thousands of customers from more than 25 countries around the world with a strong presence in the U.K, Canada, United State, France and China.

The number of cyber threats menacing organizations that conduct business online grew exponentially in 2006. As viruses, worms and spyware continue to propagate at an alarming rate, record numbers of compromised machines are available for cyber crime activities that disrupt business activities with sophisticated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Faced with a growing number of DDoS attacks that could cripple its business, Solutions Sherweb needed a solution that could block malicious traffic and ensure availability for its customers.

?Being a web hosting provider makes us susceptible to all forms of cyber attacks. We began to experience an increase in attacks that would shut down our operations for extended periods of time. We needed to find a solution that could mitigate all attacks and protect our customers? critical assets,? said Peter Cassar, president of Solutions Sherweb. ?As a web hosting services provider, we pride ourselves on ensuring availability to all of our customers. Top Layer offered the most complete solution on the market and enables us to keep our promise to our customers.?

Solutions Sherweb conducted exhaustive research to determine which IPS solutions would best mitigate attacks against its business. While some IPS products offer protection against rate based attacks, and others offer protection against content-based attacks, Sherweb determined that Top Layer Networks was the only IPS on the market that could protect against both rate based and content based attacks.

?The Web hosting industry is a market that is increasingly susceptible to the growing number of online attacks that can cause costly damage and extended periods of downtime. In a business in which customers rely on availability, any period of downtime can be devastating to the business,? said Mike Paquette, chief strategy officer for Top Layer Networks. ?Leading companies like Solutions Sherweb understand that Top Layer Networks ability to provide three dimensional protection against undesired access, malicious content and rate-based attacks ensures network availability against all attacks and is critical to ensuring availability to its customers.?

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 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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