| November 16, 2004 | Press Release |
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| Wall Street Journal 2004 Technology Innovation Awards Honor Sana Security |
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| Portfolio Company: Sana Security |
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San Mateo, CA - November 16, 2004— Sana Security, Inc., a leader in intrusion prevention software (IPS), today announced it has been awarded the Wall Street Journal 2004 Technology Innovation Award in the network security category. Sana Security was selected for its anomaly-based approach to securing organizations' core information assets from unknown and zero-day attacks, validating the enterprise customer adoption Sana's products have experienced in the financial, government and retail industries. Without reliance on rules and signatures, Sana's technology enables proactive protection, enterprise-wide scalability and enhanced manageability and performance capabilities.
The Wall Street Journal honors individuals, companies and organizations from around the world - including those representing the U.S., Canada, Finland, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore and the United Kingdom - for their technological breakthroughs in software, hardware, the Internet, medicine, wireless and broadcasting. The winners list is produced by an independent panel of judges who evaluate and consider breadth of innovation based on existing products in the market, major challenges the product aims to solve and extensive data that supports its claim to the enterprise.
“The Wall Street Journal seeks to recognize those companies that have demonstrated innovation through creative thinking and honors the top companies in respective industries for their unique approaches to solving today's business challenges," said Karen Elliott House, publisher, The Wall Street Journal, and senior vice president, Dow Jones & Company. "We believe that in today's complex technology environments, it has never been more important to discover and embrace new ideas.“
The recent recognition from The Wall Street Journal validates Sana's success in developing mature IPS solutions for enterprise-wide deployment. Sana Security leverages a unique combination of adaptive profiling and out-of-the-box protection to intrusion prevention that protects enterprise customers' broad range of platforms and applications against known and unknown attacks in increasingly dynamic networked environments. Customers rely on Sana's innovative platform to protect endpoints across their distributed communication network.
“It's an honor to be recognized by the world's leading business newspaper for providing innovative and in-depth security solutions designed to protect corporate data integrity and information assets," said Timothy Eades, senior vice president, marketing, Sana Security. "We are seeing tremendous customer adoption of IPS in the enterprise - driven in part by regulatory compliance and in part by the realization that corporate information must be protected by solutions that adapt to the ever-evolving threat curve. Companies must deploy solutions that stop tomorrow's unknown attacks or their business will suffer.“
With Sana Adaptive Profiling Technology (SanAPT), Primary Response® not only detects and prevents unexpected file and process executions that are determined to be a threat, but also provides granular, out-of-the-box protection against destructive worms. As a single solution across all mission-critical servers, Primary Response® protects standard applications such as IIS, Apache and iPlanet web servers, complex applications such as Microsoft Exchange®, Peoplesoft, SAP and Oracle, and, of greater importance, custom developed applications against known and unknown attacks across the enterprise. Primary Response® is centrally managed, designed to operate almost completely independent of IT administration, enabling it to be quickly deployed and configured to effectively scale across hundreds of enterprise servers with unmatched manageability and performanc
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