DeepNines Appoints Kirk Haney As Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development; Former Cisco Security Leader Will Hold Key Position as Company Continues Rapid Growth

Business Wire, March 23, 2005

DALLAS -- DeepNines Technologies, the only security company capable of protecting networks from in front of the router, today announced the appointment of Mr. Kirk Haney as vice president of corporate strategy and business development.

Mr. Haney joins DeepNines from Cisco Systems, where he served as a senior manager of Cisco's global business development team and was responsible for driving key partnerships within their security channel program including IBM, Symantec, TrendMicro, Computer Associates and McAfee. At Cisco, Mr. Haney led the company's Security Technology Leadership program which identified the top security market opportunities and implemented sales strategies to align the company with those opportunities. Under his leadership, Cisco security sales surpassed $1 billion in 2004.

Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Haney held several management positions in sales, marketing and business development for 3Com Corporation and ArrowPoint Communications. At ArrowPoint, he was responsible for sales, marketing and business development throughout the Southwest. In this role, Mr. Haney built and led a team that grew revenue from inception to an $80 million run rate. This helped position ArrowPoint for one of the most successful IPOs of 2000 and ultimately enabled ArrowPoint to become Cisco's largest public company acquisition at $5.9 billion.

"Kirk's experience in enterprise security comes from the world's largest networking company, Cisco, and will be instrumental to our company's success. He recognizes that the reactionary network security approach is not meeting the market's needs," said Dan Jackson, COO and president of DeepNines. "Cisco's recent announcement that they will eventually deliver IPS security in the router alerts customers that Cisco IOS is vulnerable. With Kirk joining DeepNines, it makes a strong statement to the market that our product and vision are unique and that we are well-positioned to address router security and IOS vulnerabilities."

"It is exciting to be joining the team at DeepNines," said Mr. Haney, "It's clear to me that the market is starting to adopt DeepNines' approach of an integrated security platform in front of the router. DeepNines was the first company to recognize router vulnerabilities when they developed their 'Zero Footprint Technology' which enables customers to place an integrated security platform in stealth mode in front of the router. DeepNines has what many other security companies lack - a converged security platform with a unique technology to differentiate their offerings."

Mr. Haney holds a degree in political science from the California State University, Long Beach and a MBA from Pepperdine University.

About Deep Nines, Inc.

DeepNines offers a scalable security platform for Global 2000 companies with a vertical market focus in education, government, telecommunications, energy and financial services. The DeepNines Security Edge Platform(TM) integrates intelligent firewall, intrusion prevention, best-of-breed secure content management, forensics and reporting. It operates outside the network infrastructure, improving organizations' security "deep into the nines." DeepNines' Security Edge Platform, the company's patent-pending security system, is a fully automated signature and behavior-based, intrusion prevention and traffic management system preventing known and unknown attacks from entering an organization's network. The Security Edge Platform runs on Solaris and Linux platforms from Sun Microsystems. To learn more about Deep Nines visit www.deepnines.com.

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