LONDON, June 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- Intelligent content security solves critical business issues for 
service providers and enterprises worldwide with a unique integrated model

Optenet, a leading global IT security company and a provider of
intelligent, integrated content security solutions, today announced the
availability of its Optenet Content Security Portfolio for service providers
and enterprises in the UK as part of its goal to reach 120 million users
worldwide in 2008.

Optenet's product portfolio, which includes the appliance-based Optenet
Secure Web Gateway for enterprises and the Optenet Content Security Suite for
service providers includes Web filtering, anti-spam, anti-virus, firewall
protection and more and is the most comprehensive, integrated security
solution in the industry. Optenet is the only security vendor that delivers a
natively integrated package of security applications that can be managed
centrally and customized to meet the specific security requirements of each
customer.

The availability of the Optenet Content Security Suite throughout the UK
expands the company's global reach in the content security market. Now, with
Optenet's unique multi-instance/multi-tenant architecture, UK service
providers can broaden their portfolio of service offerings and radically
reduce the cost of delivering customized security services in order to drive
revenue. In addition, UK enterprises can now manage everything from Web
filtering, to anti-spam, anti-virus, to intrusion prevention from a single
console, eliminating the costs and complexity associated with relying on
multiple security products. Optenet's security technology offers customers
the ability to centrally manage security policies, while still providing
custom solutions that meet the needs of each user.

"Service providers and enterprises are faced with increasing demands from
their customers and end users to make email and Internet access faster, safer
and free of inappropriate content," said Francisco Martin, chief executive
officer of Optenet. "During the past 10 years, Optenet has achieved
tremendous success by delivering intelligent content security solutions and
excellent customer service to our service provider and enterprise customers.
The availability of the Optenet Content Security Suite in the UK allows us to
deliver our proven security solutions in a market that is primed for
massively scalable, customized security options."

Optenet was founded in 1997 as an Internet service provider, so it has a
unique understanding of the requirements and challenges faced by companies in
the Internet and telecommunications service markets. Enterprises use the
Optenet Secure Web Gateway to ensure that only appropriate content is flowing
into and out of the enterprise. Service providers use the Optenet Content
Security Suite to protect their internal networks, and also to offer security
services to customers. Today, Optenet protects half of the IBEX 35 companies
and is deployed in more than 50 large service provider networks.

About Optenet

Optenet provides intelligent, integrated content security solutions to
service providers and large enterprises. Optenet's technology protects 75
million end users worldwide, including the customers of many of the world's
leading ISPs and mobile operators, including Orange, O2 and Telefonica, as
well as global enterprise organisations such as McDonalds, Daimler AG and
Hilton. For more information, visit www.optenet.com.

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