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IPS 5500 E-Series Rated “Best Buy” in SC Magazine Comparative Review

Westboro, MA, August 16, 2007 -

Group Test of Leading IPS Vendors Reveals that the IPS 5500 E-Series is Best in Class for its Features, Ease of Use and Performance

Top Layer Networks, Inc., a global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, today announced that its new IPS 5500 E-Series has received SC Magazine’s “Best Buy” status based on a comparative review of the top intrusion prevention solutions on the market. In a group test that included NitroSecurity, Inc., CounterSnipe Technologies, IBM-ISS, Reflex Security, Security Metrics, and RadWare, Top Layer received the highest marks of all participants and was given the top honor of “Best Buy” for its ease of use, full features and overall performance. The complete comparative review can be found at SCMagazine.com.

“This is an incredible honor bestowed upon us by the highly respected technology reviewers of SC Magazine, and demonstrates our technology leadership position in the industry,” said Peter Rendall, CEO of Top Layer Networks. “The rigorous testing done by SC Magazine clearly demonstrates that our IPS 5500 E-Series is truly best in class, and is the only intrusion prevention solution on the market that combines enterprise-level protection against an evolving threat landscape with an ease-of-use that removes the barriers to deployment and configuration.”

Achieving the highest score of all products reviewed, the Top Layer IPS 5500 E-Series was lauded by SC Magazine reviewers for its superior protection features and ease of use. In the review, the E-Series was praised for its unique Three Dimensional Protection (3DP), “This device uses IPS for protection against malicious content, a firewall that uses stateful packet filtering, and protection from denial of service attacks. This product is capable of handling a wide range of threats, including worms, viruses, spyware, P2P applications, file-based remote exploits, Trojans, DDoS and exploits of Microsoft vulnerabilities.”

About the Top Layer IPS 5500 E-Series

The IPS 5500 E-Series uses TopInspect Deep Packet Inspection to analyze network traffic as two distinct parts: Protocol Validation Modules (PVM’s) inspect the network protocols that are used to initiate communication and carry payload data from one computer to another; Data Validation Modules (DVM’s) inspect the actual files that are carried as payloads by the network protocols.

Top Layer's IPS 5500 E-Series provides worldwide enterprises, service providers, and governments with complete Three Dimensional Protection (3DP). The IPS 5500's 3DP uniquely provides the broadest range of protection available on the market including:

Protection against malicious content through advanced IPS technology
Protection against undesired access through stateful firewall filtering
Protection against rate-based attacks such as DDoS attacks through DDoS mitigation

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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