PopCap Games Joins Forces With Breach Security


CARLSBAD, California, April 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- WebDefend Deployed At PopCap.com To Help Safeguard Customers

Breach Security, Inc., the leader in web application security, today
announced that PopCap Games, a leading multiplatform developer and publisher
of casual games, has chosen Breach Security's WebDefend web application
security appliance to secure http://www.popcap.com in line with Payment Card
Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) compliance. WebDefend protects
all PopCap's online properties, web applications and transactions while
preventing leakage of user data. It also reveals application coding defects
that can compromise the availability and security of PopCap's website,
allowing security teams to bridge the software lifecycle gap by generating
help tickets for defect remediation.

"PopCap games are about fun. But there's nothing fun about web security
breaches so we, at PopCap, are committed to having the best online security
available. We chose WebDefend to be compliant with PCI DSS requirements,"
said Neil Quiogue, Information Security Specialist at PopCap Games. "Breach
Security monitors all in-bound and out-bound web traffic, decrypts SSL data
to ensure secure online credit card transactions, and offers our customers
complete protection from known and unknown web application threats."

PopCap games, available for platforms including Web, PC, Mac, mobile,
Xbox, PS2 and iPod, have been downloaded more than one billion times by
consumers worldwide. Flagship title, Bejeweled, has sold more than 10 million
units across all platforms and PopCap estimates the Bejeweled franchise has
consumed roughly six billion hours of consumers' leisure time since 2001.
Breach Security monitors both inbound and outbound traffic and offers
flexible remediation options including TCP resets and web server logouts.
Highly dynamic applications like PopCap's games change frequently at the code
level and require the continuous, real-time protection that WebDefend
delivers through its combined positive and negative security models. PopCap
has deployed WebDefend security across its global datacenters to support its
entire user base.

"We are pleased to work with PopCap to secure their online applications
and make casual gaming a worry-free pastime for their customers," said Sanjay
Mehta, Senior Vice President at Breach Security. "PopCap's selection of
Breach Security after a meticulous competitive analysis is a testament to
WebDefend's ability to accurately detect and prevent web application attacks,
and guard against inadvertent web data leakage resulting from insecurely
coded applications."

According to a recent Information Security magazine product review of Web
applications firewalls, WebDefend was designated as "an excellent choice for
data protection as well as application security." The product review also
gave WebDefend the highest praise for addressing compliance requirements for
PCI DSS.

Breach Security's award-winning WebDefend(TM) web application firewall
appliance offers organizations out-of-the-box PCI compliance. WebDefend not
only provides immediate compliance with Section 6.6 of the PCI DSS, but also
helps organizations comply with many other PCI DSS requirements.

WebDefend includes a pre-packaged PCI policy and reports. The PCI policy
ensures the proper security configuration for attack prevention and the
logging of all payment card use. PCI-specific reports provide an immediate
view of the system's overall level of compliance and details of sensitive
information use for audit purposes.

About WebDefend

WebDefend is an advanced web application firewall that offers customized,
behavior-based security for each protected application. Only WebDefend uses a
patented profiling system and multiple, collaborative detection engines to
ensure the flow of business-critical traffic while supplying complete
protection for applications to keep the organizations' confidential
information safe from targeted attacks. Deployed out-of-line, WebDefend
uniquely provides non-intrusive, effective security for multi-application
environments while continuing to provide full blocking capabilities. In 2008,
WebDefend has been praised for its accurate attack detection and prevention,
ease-of-use, performance and targeted Payment Card Industry features in
reviews by major industry publications including SC Magazine and Information
Security magazine, a TechTarget publication.

About Breach Security, Inc.

Breach Security, Inc. is the leading provider of real-time, continuous
web application security that protects sensitive web-based information.
Breach Security's products protect web applications from hacking attacks and
data leakage, and ensure applications operate as intended. The company's
products are trusted by thousands of organizations around the world,
including leaders in finance, healthcare, ecommerce, travel, and government.
For more information, please visit http://www.breach.com.

About PopCap

PopCap Games (http://www.popcap.com) is the leading multi-platform
provider of "casual games" -- fun, easy-to-learn, captivating computer games
that appeal to everyone from age 6 to 106. Based in Seattle, Washington,
PopCap was founded in 2000 and has a worldwide staff of over 180 people in
Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Vancouver, B.C. and Dublin. Its games have
been downloaded more than 1 billion times by consumers worldwide, and its
flagship title, Bejeweled(R), has sold more than 10 million units across all
platforms. Constantly acclaimed by consumers and critics, PopCap's games are
played on the Web, desktop computers, myriad mobile devices (cell phones,
smartphones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, iPod and more), popular game consoles (such as
Xbox), and in-flight entertainment systems. PopCap is the only casual games
developer with leading market share across all major sales channels,
including Web portals, retail stores, mobile operators and developers, and
game device manufacturers.

The PopCap logo and all other trademarks used herein that are listed at
http://www.popcap.com/trademarks are owned by PopCap Games, Inc. or its
licensors and may be registered in some countries. Other company and product
names used herein may be trademarks of their respective owners and are used
for the benefit of those owners.

Web site: http://www.breach.com
              http://www.popcap.com



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