Sourcefire Founder Named 'InfoWorld Innovator' for Creating Snort and RNA Technologies; Martin Roesch Recognized for Innovation and Contributions to the IT Industry

Business Wire, June 2, 2004

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2004

Sourcefire, Inc., a world leader in real-time network defense, today announced that the company's founder and CTO, Martin Roesch, has received the 2004 InfoWorld Innovators award. InfoWorld, a leading IT trade publication, chose 13 industry visionaries, who created new, cutting-edge technologies that have the potential to change the way companies do business or improve the way IT supports business goals.

Roesch was chosen for his long track record of security innovation. In the late 1990s, Roesch developed Snort, the world's most widely deployed Intrusion Detection technology with more than one million downloads to date and widely recognized as the standard for IDS. Now, with Sourcefire RNA he is increasing the functionality of IDSs and other security solutions by providing the network insight and context to tune devices and prioritize alerts, increasing the overall effectiveness of companies' security investments.

"InfoWorld prides itself on identifying the latest trends and industry leaders so that our readers have an inside track on the people and products that are changing the way we do business," said Eric Knorr, InfoWorld's executive editor at large. "InfoWorld Innovators are recognized for creating technologies that are transforming the industry, and Marty Roesch has done this twice - once with Snort and now again with Sourcefire RNA, which provides a level of network context that we have not seen before in the security arena"

Martin Roesch has a long history of identifying real-world security needs and developing solutions that address those exact requirements, providing users with unmatched benefits. RNA passively monitors network assets, threats and vulnerabilities to deliver highly detailed, real-time profiles of all network assets including configuration, behavior, potential vulnerabilities and associated changes. Sourcefire RNA is a critical component of the company's 3D product suite which unifies intrusion management, vulnerability management and event management technologies to provide organizations with the most effective security possible.

With seven patents pending, Sourcefire's Real-time Network Awareness(TM) (RNA)'s innovative passive sensing technology constantly monitors all network assets (servers, routers, PC's, firewalls, wireless access points, etc.) and provides a persistent view of network asset profiles, asset behavioral profiles, network profiles, security vulnerabilities and change events. This layer of intelligence greatly reduces the costs associated with managing and responding to network threats. RNA's ground-breaking technology allows organizations to protect their network and their business despite the realities of managing a dissolving perimeter.

About InfoWorld Innovators Awards

The InfoWorld Innovators awards honor top technology innovators whose work, creations, and ideas have changed the way we look at technology and have had a significant impact on the evolution of the tech world. Each year InfoWorld also honors several up-and-coming leaders as Ones to Watch, as well as adding to our Innovators Hall of Fame. Innovators selections are made by the InfoWorld senior editorial staff. Open to outside nomination.

About Sourcefire's 3D Product Suite

Sourcefire's 3D Approach - Discover, Determine, Defend - to securing real networks in real-time provides proactive defense-in-depth through an integrated process of discovering risks, vulnerabilities and threats; determining their business impact ;and taking the appropriate action to defend the network. Sourcefire's 3D product suite, including Sourcefire Intrusion Sensors and Agents, Sourcefire RNA Sensors and the Sourcefire Defense Center, provides companies with the most effective security possible.

The Sourcefire 3D Product Suite offers the most flexible and precise intrusion detection and network discovery technologies worldwide. Sourcefire Intrusion Sensors utilize the award-winning Snort(TM) rules-based detection engine, bringing the benefits of signature, protocol, and anomaly-based inspection methods to all varying network traffic speeds. In addition, Sourcefire RNA Sensors passively monitor a network to deliver highly detailed, real-time profiles of all network assets including their configuration, behavior, potential vulnerabilities and associated changes. By tightly integrating and correlating the threat information provided by Sourcefire Intrusion Sensors and Agents with the network intelligence provided by Sourcefire RNA Sensors, the Sourcefire Defense Center easily prioritizes the millions of security events to determine the most critical events to an organization's business and takes the appropriate actions. These actions follow the ABCs of Defense - Alerting, Blocking or Configuring - all in real-time to deliver the most effective security.

About InfoWorld Media Group

For 25 years, InfoWorld Media Group has provided cutting-edge coverage and evaluation of IT products and services for technology experts in senior management. Through integrated channels including print, online, and events, InfoWorld reaches the most influential senior-level information technologists -- those who drive their enterprises' strategies and technology purchases. Powered by a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide both hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. www.infoworld.com