SurfControl Expands Internet Security Portfolio With Addition of SurfControl Web Filter Appliance

Business Wire, May 21, 2007

Market Leading Web Filtering Software Solution Now Available on a Hardened Windows Appliance

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. -- SurfControl (LSE:SRF), a leading provider of global on-demand, network, and endpoint IT security solutions today announced the release of the SurfControl Web Filter Appliance, a "ready-to-deploy," purpose-built solution with Web Filter software pre-installed on an ISA-based, hardened Windows appliance. This product specializes in providing full visibility and policy control across a full spectrum of Web-based content.

The SurfControl Web Filter Appliance protects employees as well as organizations from the security, regulatory, productivity, and network performance risks that can result from inappropriate Web usage, and from related threats such as IM, streaming media, file downloads, and Web-based e-mail. With the SurfControl Web Filter Appliance, businesses of all sizes can safeguard their organization from all these threats.

"The Internet is critical to organizations worldwide, yet it is their biggest security threat. Today global organizations require customizable and detailed internal controls," said John Cheney, executive vice president of global marketing at SurfControl. "The Web Filter Appliance can be installed on-site in minutes, and supplies IT managers with the controls and reporting tools they need to protect their organization from threats as well as inappropriate Internet usage. Because it is an appliance, the focus is on ease-of-deployment, with little to no ongoing maintenance."

Organizations also receive SurfControl's unrivaled threat protection with the SurfControl Web Filter Appliance. SurfControl's global sensory network feeds into Web Filter's Internet Threat Database and Virtual Control Agent to provide zero-day, focused threat categories including International and multi-cultural content and dynamic categorization of unknown Web sites. These key features allow for the implementation of effective policy rules unique to each organization to reduce risk, enable business compliance and ensure business continuity.

About SurfControl

SurfControl provides a portfolio of security solutions to protect our customers from Internet threats, deliver business and regulatory compliance, and enable business continuity. SurfControl believes that security should be treated as a science, delivering protection at multiple points -- "in the cloud" with on-demand security services, on the network with software and appliances, and on the desktop and mobile client. All of SurfControl's solutions for Web, e-mail and endpoint security are backed by industry-leading threat detection technologies, delivered by SurfControl's Global Threat Experts who work 24/7 to provide customers with dynamic zero-day protection. The company protects more than 16 million users and over 25,000 customers worldwide, and employs more than 600 people in offices across Europe, the Americas, and Asia/Pacific. For further information and news on SurfControl, please visit www.surfcontrol.com.