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Top Layer Networks Demonstrates Commitment to Middle East Region

Westboro, MA, March 10, 2008 -

Demand for Award Winning Network Intrusion Prevention System Sparks Expanded Presence and Partnerships in the Middle East

Top Layer Networks, a global leader for high performance intrusion prevention solutions, today announced that it is expanding its presence in the Middle East region by forming new key partnerships. Last week, along with a number of new partners in the region, Top Layer hosted security seminars in Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, reinforcing its commitment in the Middle East.

The Middle East marketplace, particularly areas such as Dubai and Kuwait, has undergone a tremendous transition, both in terms of economic growth and technology adoption. These regions are increasingly investing in infrastructure protection, which has led to an increased adoption of network security solutions.

Top Layer continues to attract new partners in the Middle East as new businesses develop and require protection against the latest cyber attacks. Husam Adnan Al Saraf, business development manager with Top Layer, is responsible for building relationships and trust with key resellers in the region to work with Top Layer and its family of IPS appliances as their preferred partner.

“We have seen a great need in this region for strong network security in recent months,” stated Husam Adnan Al Saraf, business development manager with Top Layer. “We look forward to working with regional partners to provide Top Layer’s breakthrough intrusion prevention solutions. This will provide end-users with the protection they need against today’s sophisticated and fast-changing cyber threats.”

“The Middle East region is eager to acquire security knowledge and technologies that can better protect its new economic growth,” said Mike Paquette, Chief Strategy Officer with Top Layer. “Attracting partners demonstrates our product technology acceptance amongst their customers. Hosting the security seminar reinforces our commitment to our reseller partners and customers, and our dedication to the Middle East market.”

About the Educational Seminar

Top Layer’s Educational Tour was developed to help educate end-users and partners. The session focused on discussing how today's technologies are failing, what the next generation of network threats are, and how to protect against these attacks. Participants learned how to proactively protect their network from common threats including malicious content, undesired access, and botnet-based attacks using the latest network intrusion prevention system technology with Three Dimensional Protection capabilities.

The feedback from the participants was extremely positive. The seminar was truly educational and enlightening as to the risks that exist.

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 botnet-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 E-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 as well as Best IPS Product of 2007.

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 zero-day 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 Middle East, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.