TIPPINGPOINT TO DELIVER SECURITY SEMINAR SERIES TO ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

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KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – March 26, 2008 – TippingPoint, a leader in intrusion prevention, today announced a seminar series designed for press, IT and security executives to address the top network attacks and emerging threats and provide security recommendations for comprehensive enterprise defense and risk compliance. Scheduled through the months of March and May, the seminar series will cover 11 cities throughout the Asia Pacific region.

The first half of the two-part briefing will focus on emerging trends across the threat landscape. Insight into attack techniques used on Web application servers, which are becoming an attractive financial target for criminals due to their accessibility to back-end database servers, will be discussed. Other sophisticated and dangerous attacks targeting critical network vulnerabilities including VoIP and SCADA will be covered. The growing sophistication of cyber threats and system vulnerabilities provides a daunting task for IT administrators working to protect critical data while meeting regulatory compliance.

Addressing these current and emerging threats during the seminar series, Rohit Dhamankar is the senior manager of TippingPoint’s security research team DVLabs, dvlabs.tippingpoint.com, where he leads the group responsible for developing protection filters to address vulnerabilities, viruses, worms, Trojans, P2P, spyware, and other applications to incorporate them into TippingPoint's intrusion prevention systems. He co-authors the weekly SANS Institute’s @RISK newsletter and is also the Director for the SANS Top-20 Internet Security Attack Target project.

“The past two years have been a rich play of application vulnerabilities from the server to user perspective,” according to Mr. Dhamankar. “Attackers have started turning towards Web applications for compromise since both open source and custom Web applications have been found to be riddled with numerous vulnerabilities. Web server vulnerabilities have, in turn, fueled the compromise of desktop systems via user application vulnerabilities. It has become an easy trick to take over a Web site or host a malicious Web site remotely and attack any users directed to the site.

The second half of the briefing will concentrate on emerging technologies and business trends in information security and their potential business impact. An innovative platform approach that organizations are evolving toward for securing their networks will be described by Neal Hartsell, TippingPoint’s worldwide vice president of marketing. Mr. Hartsell heads TippingPoint’s marketing and product management teams and brings over twenty years of strategic marketing, product marketing, and product management experience in enterprise and carrier-class networking.

“The three principle concerns of organizations center on keeping bad traffic off the network; controlling who and what accesses the network; and ensuring critical data does not leave the network,” according to Mr. Hartsell. “But that’s a large and seemingly disparate charter, so the question becomes how these topics are related and how they can be addressed through a cohesive network security solution model that is technically and economically viable.”

TippingPoint’s 2008 Security Seminar Series will be held on the following dates and locations:

Tuesday, March 10 Tokyo, Japan
Wednesday, March 12 Seoul, South Korea
Friday, March 14 Shanghai, China
Monday, March 17 Beijing, China
Wednesday, March 19 Hong Kong, China
Monday, March 24 Bangkok, Thailand
Monday, March 24 Taipei, Taiwan
Wednesday, March 26 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Thursday, March 27 Singapore
Tuesday, May 6 Sydney, Australia
Thursday, May 8 Melbourne, Australia

To learn more about the briefings or to register, visit http://www.tippingpointevents.com/. On-line pre-registration is required for admittance. Seating is limited and TippingPoint reserves the right to admit or deny visitors as seating permits. Preference will be given to qualified individuals including C-level executives and security or IT directors.