Rockledge, Fla. — October 21, 2002 - e-Security, Inc., the leading provider of Security Event Management software, and Sanctum, Inc., the established leader in Web application security, announced a partnership to integrate the two companies' software. The integrated solution enables organizations to monitor and analyze security events detected by Sanctum's AppShield, the leading Web application firewall, in real-time using the e-Security Management System.

"Through this relationship enterprise-customers have a powerful solution for improving the overall security level of their Web applications while managing all the other security events occurring in their environment," said Joseph P. Payne, president and CEO, e-Security, Inc. "Our goal is to provide the broadest range of coverage for security products in order to address the needs of the largest enterprises. This relationship enables e-Security to build upon its leadership in this area."

Through this partnership, Sanctum provides e-Security's Security Event Management software with Web application security event information to deliver comprehensive detection, prevention and response that enterprises need to protect their mission critical information assets. With the integrated solution organizations can monitor their Web applications for adverse events and analyze these events with advanced correlation to discover trends between attacks occurring throughout the enterprise, making it easier for the administrator to monitor events in real time. Additionally, organizations can generate reports for management, auditors or regulators that demonstrate provable security encompassing all aspects of their security environment, including their Web applications.

"This partnership will enable our customers to view Web application threats within the context of the overall security architecture for improved enterprise security management and threat analyses," said David Colodny, Director of Business Development, Sanctum. "We are committed to joining our resources with the best security solution providers to make Web application security a core component of corporate IT security. By bringing together Sanctum's proven Web application security technology and e-Security's market-leading Security Event Management expertise, we will deliver a best-of-breed security management solution to the market."

e-Security's market leading Security Event Management software enables enterprises to mitigate business risk in real time, while increasing the manageability and reducing the total cost of ownership of their security environment. Using e-Wizard, organizations can collect and standardize security events being generated by any device, enterprise-wide. e-Sentinel then aggregates, analyzes and reports these events in real time. The combined solution has given over 65 of the world's leading organizations the power to integrate all their critical business systems into a seamless view, enabling real time incident response and provable security.

Sanctum's AppShield stops application attacks by utilizing a positive security model to help ensure that application behavior is maintained as originally intended by the developer. AppShield identifies legitimate requests made of an e-business site and permits only those actions to take place. AppShield requires no patches, signatures or continual updates to provide 24/7 online defense against any type of application manipulation through the browser. Sanctum's technology helps customers increase the speed and ease of application deployment in a secure environment.

About e-Security, Inc.
e-Security, Inc. is the leading provider of Security Event Management software. Since developing the industry's first enterprise-class Security Event Management product in July 1999 e-Security has enabled a growing number of Fortune 1,000 and government organizations, including Computer Sciences Corporation, Fleet Boston Financial Corporation, and Abbey National, to conduct real-time threat management throughout their multi-vendor, best-of-breed environments. e-Security's five-star industry-rated e-Security Management System™, consisting of e-Sentinel™ and e-Wizard™, correlates security events as they occur from multi-vendor security software and other devices. With this software solution enterprises can mitigate business risk in real time, while increasing the manageability and reducing the total cost of ownership of their security environment. For more information visit www.esecurityinc.com.

About Sanctum, Inc. (www.SanctumInc.com)
Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., Sanctum, Inc. is the recognized leader for Web application security solutions. Sanctum software solutions provide automatic enforcement of intended business processes, ensuring the protection of core information and data. By detecting and defending against any unauthorized behavior, Sanctum protects customers against malicious cybercriminal activity—from theft of intellectual property and customer data, to e-commerce fraud and Web site defacement—even if a site has unknown security holes or flaws. Sanctum's solutions complete a company's security infrastructure, assure regulatory compliance and create sustainable ROI. Sanctum's customers include industry leaders in finance, retailing, healthcare, government and telecommunications. Privately held, Sanctum is funded by blue-chip venture capital firms and industry leaders including Sprout Group, Dell, Gemini Israel Funds, Fidelity Ventures, Wachovia Strategic Ventures Group, Mofet Israel Technology Fund and Walden Israel. For more information, visit www.SanctumInc.com or contact the Company directly at (408) 352-2000.

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