Sourcefire Launches Certified Training Program for Commercial and Open Source Snort Solutions

Business Wire, June 21, 2004

COLUMBIA, Md. -- Sourcefire, Inc., a world leader in real-time network defense, today announced a new comprehensive training program, providing Sourcefire customers, resellers, technology partners, security professionals and the Open Source Snort community with ability to optimize Sourcefire products and Snort technology. This program includes courses on Sourcefire's entire 3D System, including Intrusion Sensors, RNA and Defense Center, as well vendor-neutral training on Building and Operating a Snort IDS and Snort Rules. Attendees receive real-world insights and examples on how to tune their devices to effectively Discover assets and risks; Determine appropriate actions and Defend against threats.

"With these classes, Sourcefire is offering a great top-to-bottom, hands-on review of the Snort engine and rules that enables users to build, operate and tune their deployments for more effective security," said Keith McCammon, Washington DC Snort User Group Organizer. "The pace, labs, and overall format of Sourcefire's classes allow beginners to learn the basics, while advanced users can at the same time experiment with more complex scenarios."

"To use Snort most effectively, the security professional must understand the power of the technology and the rules that make it work," said Martin Roesch, creator of Snort and founder of Sourcefire. "Sourcefire's Security Education Program combines classroom, lecture and lab exercises to ensure that attendees receive a comprehensive, real-world tutorial on effectively deploying, managing and using their security solutions. IT Executives around the world know and trust Snort to help protect their networks; now they can trust the creators of Snort to provide one of the most useful training programs in the industry to help them make their security policies even more effective."

"By providing insights into the A,B,Cs of security - Alert, Block and Correct, this education program ensures that attendees have 100 percent confidence to install, deploy, manage and fully optimize the technology," said Karen Paulson, Vice President, Channel Operations and Education Services at Sourcefire. "Sourcefire is providing our customers and Open Source Snort users with the ability to significantly improve their network security, especially in this age of dissolving perimeters."

Sourcefire backs all classes with the following student and turnover guarantees:

--Student Guarantee: Students may retake the same class/same version once within 6 months of the original class attended at no extra charge.

--Turnover Guarantee: Any company that enrolls an employee in a Sourcefire class, who leaves the company in 60 days of the original class date, may enroll one additional employee in the same class/version within 6 months of the original student's class at no extra charge.

For more information and to register for a course, go to: http://www.sourcefire.com/services/training_schedule.html

About Sourcefire's 3D System

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 System, 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 System 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 - Alert, Block, Correct - all in real-time to deliver the most effective security.

About Sourcefire

Sourcefire, Inc., the world leader in real-time network defense solutions, is transforming the way organizations manage and minimize network security risks with its 3D Approach - Discover, Determine, Defend - to securing real networks in real-time. The company's ground-breaking network defense system unifies intrusion and vulnerability management technologies to provide customers with the most effective network security available. Founded in 2001 by the creator of Snort, Sourcefire is headquartered in Columbia, MD and has received numerous accolades including being named a 2004 Company to Watch by Network Computing Magazine and selected as one of the Red Herring Top 100 privately held companies. At work in leading Fortune 100 and government agencies, the names Sourcefire and founder Martin Roesch have grown synonymous with innovation and intelligence in network security. For more information about Sourcefire, please visit www.sourcefire.com