SAN MATEO, Calif. – July 11, 2005 – Elemental Security, Inc., a company pioneering new technology in enterprise information security, today announced the continued growth of its nationwide sales network, as well as signing on additional regional resellers to its Authorized Channel Partner Program.  Launched in April, Elemental’s program helps member resellers meet growing customer demand for its Elemental Compliance System.  These innovative products address enterprises’ needs to centrally manage the security compliance of all computers in their dynamic computing environments.

The Elemental Authorized Channel Partner Program provides qualified reseller partners with customer volume-based product discounts, trial unit and beta test opportunities, technical training and certification, and cooperative marketing and lead-generation programs.  Elemental’s new reseller partners are deep in security experience and enterprise relationships.  They join existing Elemental Authorized Channel Partner Program sales partners already serving the Western and North Central regions of the United States.

“We are pleased to continue to expand this network of valued channel partners, who are helping us meet the growing demand for Elemental’s innovative security compliance solution,” said Michael Rogers, Elemental vice president of Sales.  “Our continued growth and industry traction is driving increased demand in the market from enterprises looking for a way to unify visibility and control of all machines in their dynamic enterprise environments.  Through our valued channel partners, including the ones announced today, we will be able to meet these needs.”

Elemental delivers the world’s only product that unifies policy management, host configuration and network access control in one seamlessly integrated offering.  For the first time, enterprises can easily express cross-platform security policies that affect individual computers and their behavior on the network, gather meaningful up-to-date information to compare to established metrics, and selectively enforce policies across a diverse, dynamic environment.  Security compliance has become a top priority for enterprises due to the pressures from increasing frequency and severity of security breaches, and from regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

New members of the Elemental Authorized Channel Partner Program include:

 *·       CipherTechs, Inc. – an information security services provider that designs and implements solutions in areas of IP networking, firewalls, application security, risk assessment, policy compliance, encryption, redundancy and strong authentication, serving the New York Metro and Southern New England areas;
 *·       Conquest Security, Inc. – an information security consulting firm that serves the federal and commercial markets, specializing in solutions that address regulatory requirements, covering the U.S. Federal government and commercial organizations in the National Capital region;
 *·       iCrew Security, L.L.C. – a security-based, managed service provider delivering a total managed solution for Enterprise Risk Management and Federated Identity Management (FIM), serving the Texas and Southern regions;
 *·       Network Systems Architects (NSA) – an established network and security integration company that specializes in delivering resilient, scalable and secure network infrastructure and systems, as well as engineering support services, covering the Boston and Northeastern regions; and
 *·       REACT Network Services, Inc. – a network security consulting firm utilizing a technically experienced staff, specializing in the identification of vulnerabilities and threat assessment, serving the Western Region.

Elemental approaches security compliance by uniquely placing an emphasis on policy.  Elemental delivers a Unified Policy Infrastructure, tightly coupling the _expression, monitoring, and enforcement of security policies across heterogeneous platforms and across multiple layers of individual computers (including by OS, application, hardware, software, and network activity).  Powering this unified framework is Fuel, the first and only purpose built security policy language.  With no programming experience required, organizations can easily express policies in a manner that more closely resembles how they were written in a security policy document, without worrying about implementation details or platform-specific issues.

About the Authorized Channel Partner Program

The Elemental Authorized Channel Partner Program certifies resellers and system integrators by staff qualification and customer commitment.  It provides the partners with customer revenue-related discounts, discounts for in-house purchases of demonstration systems, pilot program pricing, ongoing product and channel communications updates, technical training and certification, and cooperative marketing and lead-generation programs.

To qualify as a certified Elemental channel partner, candidates must meet a number of organizational and technical requirements, including maintaining a technical staff and keeping current with ongoing training.  Once they are registered, certified partners will receive technical, sales and marketing support from Elemental that will help them meet the growing demand for the Elemental Compliance System.  Go to http://www.elementalsecurity.com/go/partners for more information, or to join the program.

The Elemental Compliance System

The Elemental Compliance System is an enterprise security software solution that enables organizations to express, monitor, and enforce security policies for any computer connecting to the network.  It is a client-server security system that provides broad visibility into all hosts in the enterprise and the means to control or contain them through auto-deployed security policies.  The system consists of the Elemental server and Elemental agents running on workstations and server hosts throughout a network.  Elemental’s architecture is unique in its ability to detect, monitor and control hosts with or without Elemental agents running on them.  The Elemental Compliance System recently earned an “Excellent” rating from the InfoWorld Test Center and a 9.3 score out of a possible 10.

About Elemental

Elemental is a pioneer in the Security Compliance Management market.  Elemental’s products address enterprises’ need to centrally manage the security compliance of all computers in their environments.  Elemental provides unified visibility and control to manage dynamic computing environments, enabling enterprises to satisfy compliance requirements and measurably improve their security.  Founded in December 2002, Elemental is a privately held company backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Mayfield, Sequoia Capital and Lehman Brothers Venture Partners.  Red Herring and AlwaysOn awarded the company their Red Herring 100 and AlwaysOn 100 awards, respectively, which honor the top private companies of 2005.  The company is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., and has offices throughout the U.S.  Go to http://www.elementalsecurity.com for more information.

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Elemental, the Elemental Compliance System and Fuel are trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and certain other countries of Elemental Security, Inc.  Additional company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged.

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