NetScaler Brings Industry-Leading Application Acceleration Benefits to Millions of RSA Security Users

Market Wire, February, 2005

NetScaler, Inc., the global leader in high-performance application delivery systems, today announced that RSA Security has certified the NetScaler product line to interoperate with RSA SecurID® two-factor authentication solutions. The RSA Secured® RSA SecurID Ready® certification ensures that RSA SecurID technology users can now effectively integrate NetScaler's industry-leading application performance and SSL VPN capabilities, while continuing to leverage the trusted identity and access management benefits they currently enjoy from RSA SecurID technology. Deploying NetScaler's high-performance application delivery systems in enterprise data centers has been shown to accelerate the performance of remotely accessed enterprise applications such as Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel and Microsoft Exchange by up to 5x.(1)

An effective e-business strategy is essential to the growth and success of an organization. Enterprise customers are faced with the challenge of ensuring acceptable performance for securely delivered, mission-critical applications to their employees located around the country and around the world. Now these customers who rely on RSA SecurID technology to protect access to critical business assets can confidently optimize their applications with NetScaler's 9000 Series systems.

"Our partnership with RSA Security serves as yet another milestone toward bringing NetScaler's application acceleration expertise to Fortune 500 customers," said Raj Kanaya, vice president of product strategy and alliances for NetScaler. "Whether a business is integrating its operations with customers and partners or extending its operations on a global basis, our ability to speed and secure customers' remotely accessed enterprise applications by up to five times addresses a significant pain point that enterprise customers face today."

"NetScaler's membership to the RSA Secured Partner Program continues the program's momentum of providing customers with greater interoperability and the option to leverage a broader range of solutions in conjunction with RSA SecurID technology," said Stuart Cohen, director of partner development at RSA Security. "With the growth of e-business, companies are struggling to maintain secure access to vital information and applications. The partnership between NetScaler and RSA Security helps assure customers that they can achieve both application acceleration and security."

About the RSA Secured Partner Program

The RSA Secured Partner Program is one of the oldest and largest alliance programs of its type bringing over 10 years of experience and hundreds of complementary solutions together. RSA SecurID® Ready, RSA ClearTrust®, RSA® Sign-On Manager, RSA Keon®, RSA® Federated Identity Manager, and RSA BSAFE® certification programs bring added assurance to customers that the solutions they are deploying are certified as interoperable with industry-leading products, helping them achieve faster time to deployment and lower overall cost of ownership. The program reflects the company's commitment to providing standards-based interoperability and mutual vendor support to customers using RSA Security's identity and access management solutions.

About NetScaler

NetScaler provides networking systems that enable the fast and secure delivery of applications by integrating a unique suite of optimization, security and switching capabilities. The NetScaler line of application delivery systems provide improved application performance and hardened security for many of the world's largest enterprises, content providers and e-commerce vendors while greatly reducing total cost of ownership.

NetScaler headquarters are in San Jose, Calif. For more information, visit http://www.NetScaler.com.

NetScaler is a trademark of NetScaler, Inc. in the United States and other countries. RSA, RSA Security, ClearTrust, Keon, Secured, SecurID and SecurID Ready are either registered trademarks or trademarks of RSA Security Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other companies and products mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective holders.

(1) Application performance improvements as reported by a survey of NetScaler customers.

Contact: Stephanie Xavier NetScaler, Inc. (408) 678-1725 sxavier@netscaler.com Casey Lewis Lewis PR (415) 277-5400 caseyl@lewispr.com