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Vontu tied with Cisco for the #1 most "exciting" vendor product in use by information security professionals

Vontu leads outbound content compliance market in deployments and evaluations according to TheInfoPro's Wave 7 Information Security Study

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — August 28, 2006 — Vontu, Inc., the leader in Data Loss Prevention solutions, and TheInfoPro (TIP) announced today the results of a study that reveals the emergence of Outbound Content Compliance (OCC) as one of the "hottest" information security categories. Drawing on interviews with 150 information security professionals at Fortune 1000 companies, the TIP's Wave 7 Information Security Study shows that Vontu leads the OCC category based on the number of deployments and evaluations of its Data Loss Prevention solutions. In fact, Vontu is tied with Cisco for having the number-one most exciting information security product in use today.

TIP Information Security Study Wave 7 also found the following:

  • The Outbound Content Compliance market is optimally positioned for growth, with a high rating on the TIP Technology "Heat" IndexTM, which is based on the immediacy of user need, combined with low adoption. This combination equates to excellent market opportunity
  • Vontu was named as the lead vendor for Outbound Content Compliance solutions at least twice as frequently as its nearest competitor
  • Vontu leads all Outbound Content Compliance vendors in mindshare, with top numbers for both "in use" and "in pilot/evaluations"
  • The percentage of Fortune 1000 enterprises that use the Outbound Content Compliance has increased from 18% in Wave 6 to 26% in Wave 7. Vontu is the most "exciting" and the leading vendor in this market as one-third of all enterprises that have the technology in their roadmaps are either using or plan to use the company's technology.

"In TIP's Information Security Wave 7 Study, it was clear that Vontu was a step ahead in the Outbound Content Compliance market," said Phil Lerner, CISSP, CCO, GAWN, GFSP, Managing Director of TIP's Information Security Practice. "Vontu is assuming the role of the market leader based on the in-depth interviews TIP conducts with hundreds of information security professionals."

Additional findings of the study provide insight into the elevated "Heat" associated with the Outbound Content Compliance market. In two consecutive TIP Wave studies, information security professionals said that they are shifting their focus from protecting their enterprises against external threats to dealing with all threats, whether external and internal. Approximately 75% of respondents consider internal vulnerabilities of greater or equal concern as external threats.

Outbound Content Compliance, new to the study in the previous Wave, debuted well and is the second highest Security Infrastructure technology on the TIP Technology Heat Index. A majority (56%) of enterprises now have Outbound Content Compliance solutions in use or in plan.

"With highly publicized data breaches occurring almost daily, there is a heightened awareness of the insider threat that has contributed to the momentum of the Data Loss Prevention market," said Steve Roop, Vice President of marketing at Vontu. "The findings of the TIP study related to our market — a high "Heat Index" and currently low level of adoption — directly reflect the demand we are experiencing from enterprise organizations and our great opportunity for growth."

About TheInfoPro

TheInfoPro (TIP) is a New York City based independent research network covering Information Technology (IT). TIP produces fundamental, grass roots research on Storage, Servers, Information Security, and Networking without spin or bias, reflecting the voice of the customer. The research sources are the world's largest buyers and users of IT, a peer-sharing network of over 900 companies including Citigroup, FedEx, McGraw-Hill, MasterCard, Pfizer, Vodafone, PepsiCo, JPMorgan Chase and Harvard University. Founded in 2002 by alumni of Gartner, EMC, Giga and IBM, TIP serves three primary audiences: IT Professionals, Institutional Investors and Technology Providers. For more information, please visit www.theinfopro.net.

About Vontu

Vontu is the leading provider of Data Loss Prevention solutions for both data at rest and data in motion. Vontu allows organizations to discover and protect exposed confidential information, monitor all network traffic, block select email, FTP and web communications, and automatically enforce data loss prevention policies. By reducing the frequency and severity of both inadvertent and malicious data loss incidents, Vontu helps organizations ensure public confidence, reduce compliance risk and protect competitive advantage. Vontu customers include Fortune 500 companies in financial services, insurance, high technology, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, media, and healthcare, as well as state and federal government agencies. Vontu has received numerous awards, including SC Magazine's 2006 U.S. Excellence Award for "Best Enterprise Security Solution" and Global Award for "Best New Security Solution," as well as IDG's InfoWorld 2006 Technology of the Year Award for "Best Insider Threat Defense." For more information, please visit www.vontu.com.