Layer 7 Technologies Expands Into Belgian Market Through Partnership With Leading European Systems Integrator Steria

Business Wire, May 27, 2008

Partnership Introduces Innovative Web Services Security and Governance Solutions to Belgian Marketplace

VANCOUVER -- Layer 7 Technologies, a leading provider of security and governance solutions for Web services, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web 2.0, today announced its go-to-market partnership with Steria Benelux. Steria will act as a channel partner for Layer 7's SOA gateway products in Belgium to offer leading SOA security, governance solutions and support to its current and prospective customers.

"We are seeing a drastic increase in the number of customers that are developing applications in an SOA environment, and they are facing new security and governance challenges as a result," said Eric Stylemans, Security Department Director, Steria Benelux. "Layer 7's family of SecureSpan gateways and associated APIs, address these challenges across diverse enterprise environments to provide our customers with effective and proven solutions."

"We are very excited to form a strong partnership with one of the leading end-to-end IT providers in Belgium," said Dimitri Sirota, Vice President, Marketing and Alliances, Layer 7 Technologies. "We feel that working together will provide more end-users with the opportunity to effectively and securely add SOA to their IT environments."

Layer 7's family of SecureSpan gateways will provide Steria, and its customers, with a best-of-breed portfolio of open standards-based, WS-Policy compliant governance solutions that address security, performance management and operational SOA governance issues.

About Steria: www.steria.com

The leading end-to-end IT services provider in Europe for companies which consider new technologies a vital part of their business strategy, Steria focuses on setting up strategic partnerships with its customers in each of its key markets: the public sector, finance, telecommunications, utilities and transport.

Steria offers customers integrated services including consulting in core business processes as well as the development and operation of their information systems. In October 2007, Steria acquired the British firm Xansa.

The new group employs over 18,000 staff in 16 countries, including 5,000 in India. On December 31, 2007, Steria revenue amounted to EU1.4 billion. The Group, headquartered in Paris, is listed on the Euronext Paris market.

About Layer 7 Technologies: www.layer7tech.com

Layer 7 Technologies is a leading provider of SOA security and governance infrastructure for next generation service oriented and Web oriented integrations. The SecureSpan[TM] family of XML appliances and gateway software addresses the security, performance management and operational governance issues associated with deploying and maintaining production Web services.