PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, July 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- Companies' Joint Technologies Further Unify Information Security From
Edge-to-Core Battling Data Breaches; Meets Stringent Compliance Requirements

NitroSecurity, Inc. (http://www.nitrosecurity.com), a provider of high
performance, unified information security solutions, today announced that it
has acquired RippleTech. The combination of NitroSecurity's award winning
Security Information & Event Management (SIEM) and Intrusion Prevention
System (IPS) solutions with RippleTech's Database Activity Monitoring and Log
Management solutions, allows companies to better protect their critical data
and infrastructure with one integrated solution.

The addition of RippleTech's products allow NitroSecurity to deliver the
industry's highest performance, fully integrated, SIEM and log management
solution. Utilizing the company's patented NitroEDB (
http://www.nitrosecurity.com/solutions/technology/rdme/) data management
technology enables support for large volume storage and analysis regarding
logs and events. Additionally, integrating Database Activity Monitoring (DAM)
to the collaborative product line provides enterprises with the functionality
to mitigate risks resulting from database vulnerabilities and also addresses
the dynamic compliance regulations businesses of all sizes are charged with
meeting, such as PCI, SOX, GBLA and HIPAA.

"The combination of SIEM and log management capabilities is an
industry-changing offering that we are going to start to see more often,"
said Mike Montecillo, analyst, EMA. "The marriage of the technologies creates
a better way for the enterprise to safeguard itself from threats that could
compromise the network. In the security industry, we see the consolidation of
products and solutions all the time. This is just another example of how the
market is changing to provide end-users with better and smarter choices for
their IT needs."

"The acquisition of RippleTech allows us to answer a huge market need for
an integrated, unified security solution from edge to core," said Ken Levine,
chief executive officer, NitroSecurity. "NitroSecurity's product suite
integrated with RippleTech's log management and database activity monitoring
solutions, takes network visibility and protection to an entirely new level.
The ability to provide deep network visibility and simultaneously monitor
database activity, and meet compliance requirements, is a notable stride in
the industry."

With the onslaught of data breaches affecting the enterprise, there is an
imminent and growing market demand for comprehensive network security and
database monitoring solutions. According to a November 2007 Gartner, Inc.
report titled DAM Technology Provides Monitoring and Analytics With Less
Overhead, by Marc Nicolett and Jeffrey Wheatman, "Monitoring and analysis of
critical data access is becoming a compliance standard of due care, and this
capability is also required to detect data breaches in the event of a
successful targeted attack."

NitroGuard Database Monitor (formerly RippleTech Informant) is a database
activity monitoring solution that provides comprehensive security for
data-centric applications vulnerable to insider theft and
application-layer attacks like SQL injection. NitroView LogCaster (formerly
RippleTech LogCaster) is a fully-developed log management solution with
universal collection capabilities that uniquely utilizes agent, agentless and
network-based collection capabilities to deliver a more scalable log
management platform.

All RippleTech's employees have joined the NitroSecurity team and the
combined product suite will be sold and supported by the joint sales and
technical force. Both RippleTech products will be fully integrated into the
NitroGuard and NitroView product families over the next 3-6 months. In
addition to direct sales, all products will be offered through
NitroSecurity's global channel.

NitroSecurity will hold a webinar on Wednesday July 30th from 
2:00 p.m. -- 3:00 p.m. ET, to discuss the benefits of Unified Information 
Security with SIEM, DAM and Log Management. Please visit
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/725420787 to register.

About NitroSecurity

NitroSecurity is the leading supplier of Unified Information Security
solutions that provide Edge-to-Core network security for over 500 enterprises
across many vertical markets, including healthcare, education, financial
services, government, retail, hospitality, and managed services. Leveraging
decades of R&D and patented data management technology, NitroSecurity
delivers a highly integrated, cost effective network security product suite
for security information & event management, log management, database
activity monitoring, network analysis and intrusion prevention.

For more information, please visit www.nitrosecurity.com.

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