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Top Layer TopResponse Research Team Advises Customers of Zero-Day Protection Against Critical Novell Groupwise Vulnerability

Westboro, MA, January 24, 2008 -

Top Layer IPS 5500 Proactively Protects Customers Against Latest Enterprise Threat

Top Layer Networks, a global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, today announced that its IPS 5500 provides customers with Zero-Day protection against known attacks for the critical Novell Groupwise Client IMG Tag Buffer Overflow vulnerability, a critical exploitable vulnerability that could enable attackers to control vulnerable systems. The Top Layer TopResponse research team has assured IPS 5500 customers that they have been proactively protected against known attacks using this vulnerability and require no further action on their part.

Novell Groupwise is a cross-platform collaborative software from Novell offering e-mail, calendar, instant messaging and document management. The Novell Groupwise client includes the ability to communicate with the Novell Groupwise Server using e-mail messages that support advanced HTML formatting, such as fonts, styles and images. The reported vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary codes on a vulnerable user system by sending a specially crafted e-mail message containing HTML formatting. The IPS 5500 provides proactive protection against known attacks of this vulnerability.

“As Web 2.0 technologies proliferate in the enterprise, the great productivity gains achieved by these technologies are tempered by the new levels of vulnerability introduced into an organization. New vulnerabilities are found everyday, with malicious attackers exploiting these weaknesses to attack an organization’s network,” said Mike Paquette, Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Top Layer Networks. “The speed at which these threats emerge is well-documented. Companies need to proactively protect themselves against known and unknown threats and the IPS 5500 safeguards the enterprise against a number of these threats.”

TopResponse is an Automated Protection Update Service that provides Top Layer IPS 5500 customers with advanced security services to maximize the security, availability, and performance of their network. TopResponse offers customers proactive protection from zero-day threats and resolution to their security issues. Specifically, TopResponse provides automated updates, technical support, security advisory and software subscription services, along with access to Top Layer's Security Knowledge Base and special delivery programs.

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, IT Week, Service Provider Weekly, the Tolly Group, and was awarded “Best Buy” status by SC Magazine in their 2007 review of IDS/IPS solutions.

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 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.