ProtectPoint Unveils Enhanced Portal for Partner Channel

ProtectPoint PartnerVision web portal provides industry-leading support to rapidly growing Partner Channel

Fort Lauderdale FL (May 20, 2005)  ProtectPoint Security, Inc., a leading managed security services provider (MSSP), today announced enhancements to their ProtectPoint PartnerVision, a secure dedicated extranet web portal to support its rapidly growing Partner Channel.

This enhanced site provides the ProtectPoint Channel with an industry-leading marketing and support tool, enabling ProtectPoint partners to effectively acquire, implement and monitor clients. The ProtectPoint PartnerVision portal includes extensive marketing support, such as service data sheets, PowerPoint presentations, and template marketing pieces. In addition the portal also includes archived Weekly Partner Channel Review newsletters, support forms, operational case studies and success stories, opportunity registration and a state-of-the-art custom built automated pricing, proposal, and contract generator.

"The ProtectPoint PartnerVision has been designed with flexibility in mind to ensure it will adhere to the needs of the ProtectPoint Channel as the ever-evolving network security market space continues its rapid growth. We appreciate the unique service portfolio and added value each partner presents to ProtectPoint. We understand to successfully engage in providing additional enterprise services requires proven marketing vehicles and information that is readily accessible," said Brian Herman, Director Marketing.

ProtectPoint's CEO, Steve Harris added, "PartnerVision is the cornerstone of our ProtectPoint Channel. The portal enables our valued partners the opportunity to introduce, present, propose, contract, implement and monitor ProtectPoint services all from one secure centralized location. We realize that our Partners are faced with time and resource constraints on a daily basis, and PartnerVision provides a concise, powerful resource for our valued partner to successfully represent ProtectPoint."

A well-designed and strongly supported channel strategy has been the catalyst of ProtectPoint's appreciable growth. The ProtectPoint Channel has increased by over 400% since Q1 2004 and continues to rapidly expand. ProtectPoint announced its first International Channel Partner in the 4th Quarter of 2004. ProtectPoint now has clients in North America, Africa and Europe.

About ProtectPoint Security, Inc.

As a leading Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP), ProtectPoint Security, Inc. has developed a suite of innovative managed security solutions to cost effectively monitor and respond to internal and external network threats in real-time 24/7/365. By employing best practices combined with proprietary methodologies ProtectPoint identifies security events before systems are compromised, eliminating time-consuming and costly security incidents. ProtectPoint's managed security solutions offer a comprehensive set of security services: Intrusion Detection/Prevention, firewall, VPN, content filtering, bandwidth reporting, virus scanning, spam elimination and vulnerability scanning. ProtectPoint Security, Inc. is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Additional information about ProtectPoint is available at www.ProtectPoint.com.