TippingPoint's UnityOne Awarded 'Product of the Year' By Information Security Magazine

TippingPoint's UnityOne Awarded 'Product of the Year' By Information Security Magazine

UnityOne Wins 'Gold' in Intrusion Prevention Systems Category

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- TippingPoint Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:TPTI), the leader in intrusion prevention, today announced its UnityOne won "Gold" in the Intrusion Prevention Systems category in the 2004 "Products of the Year" Awards presented by the editors of TechTarget's Information Security and TheInfoPro (http://www.theinfopro.net/ ).

"It is an honor that UnityOne has been recognized as the best intrusion prevention system by such a well-established and well-recognized security publication like Information Security magazine," said TippingPoint CEO Kip McClanahan. "This award is especially significant to us because it is based on TheInfoPro's thorough analysis of end-users' experience with the product and their feedback."

To select the winners, analysts from TheInfoPro interviewed 416 security managers working in 273 companies, evaluating a total of 1,239 products. The resulting gold, silver and bronze winners were selected based on composite scores using the following criteria:

* Vendor's brand or reputation
* Quality of product
* Delivery of product as promised
* Quality of technical support
* Technical innovation
* Strategic vision
* Competitive positioning of product
* Quality of the sales team
* Interoperability
* Ease of doing business with the vendor.



According to Information Security magazine: "Before there was the ubiquitous term 'intrusion prevention,' there was TippingPoint and its UnityOne inline appliance. TippingPoint's grand vision for automatically stopping attacks as they happen, as well as its unique lineage as a company, makes UnityOne a deserving gold award winner."

"It's the first IPS system that we can stick in front of any workload," says one director of information security quoted by the magazine. "It stops the bad stuff and lets the good stuff through at lightning speed."

TippingPoint's UnityOne is the most decorated intrusion prevention system. It is the only intrusion prevention system awarded NSS Gold. In 2004, UnityOne also received SANS' Trusted Tool designation, eWEEK's Excellence Award for Enterprise Resource Protection, IDG's Network Protection Product of the Year presented by TechWorld, SC Magazine's Best Buy Award, and eWEEK's Analyst's Choice Award. UnityOne has also achieved Common Criteria certification and Tolly "Up to Spec" certification.

TippingPoint's UnityOne Intrusion Prevention System provides Application Protection, Performance Protection and Infrastructure Protection at gigabit speeds through total packet inspection. Application Protection capabilities provide fast, accurate, reliable protection from internal and external cyber attacks. Through its Infrastructure Protection capabilities, UnityOne protects VoIP infrastructure, routers, switches, DNS and other critical infrastructure from targeted attacks and traffic anomalies. UnityOne Performance Protection capabilities enable customers to throttle non-mission critical applications that hijack valuable bandwidth and IT resources, thereby aligning network resources and business-critical application performance.

About Information Security

A monthly magazine distributed to a qualified, controlled circulation of 60,000 IT security professionals, TechTarget's Information Security is widely regarded as the single most authoritative source for in-depth coverage of security technologies, practices, and trends. The magazine's more than 100 advertisers include the leading vendors of security services and technologies, among them, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, CA, RSA Security, Symantec and VeriSign.

About TheInfoPro

TheInfoPro (TIP) investigates key technology sectors in six-month intervals or "waves" by interviewing hundreds of IT decision makers, pre- screened for domain expertise, for an average of one hour each. Known as the "voice of the customer," thousands of IT professionals, technology providers and institutional investors rely on TIP research for robust data on vendor spending and ratings, technology adoption plans -- overlaying the vendors poised to benefit -- and rich narrative commentary. TIP studies the Information Security, Storage, Networking, and Server markets. Over 800 technology decision makers are members of the TIPNetwork, including IT decision makers from JPMorgan Chase, BellSouth, Honeywell, P&G and Visa. To learn more about TIP's independent, objective research process, where results are delivered without any analyst spin or bias, visit http://www.theinfopro.net/ .

About TippingPoint

TippingPoint is the leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth Application Protection, Infrastructure Protection, and Performance Protection for corporate enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions. Our innovative approach offers customers unmatched network-based security with unrivaled economics, ultra-high performance, scalability and reliability. TippingPoint is based in Austin, Texas, and can be contacted through its Web site at http://www.tippingpoint.com/ or by telephone at 1-88UNITYONE.

TippingPoint Technologies, the TippingPoint logo, UnityOne, the UnityOne logo and Digital Vaccine are registered trademarks of TippingPoint.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains various forward-looking statements and information that are based on TippingPoint's belief, as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to TippingPoint. When used in this press release, words such as "anticipate," "think," "project," "expect," "plan," "goal," "forecast," "intend," "could," "believe," "may," and similar expressions and statements regarding TippingPoint's plans and objectives for future operations, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Although TippingPoint believes that such expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, TippingPoint cannot give assurances that such expectations will prove to be correct. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, estimated or projected. The key factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the following: TippingPoint's limited operating history in the network security industry; the level of demand for TippingPoint's products; reliance on distribution channels through which TippingPoint products are sold; the volume and timing of orders for TippingPoint's products; product and price competition; the availability of component parts of TippingPoint's products; reliance on third party manufacturers to produce TippingPoint products; long sales and implementation cycles for TippingPoint products; TippingPoint's ability to retain and attract key personnel; TippingPoint's ability to develop or introduce new products or product enhancements; reliance on certain licensed third party technology to produce TippingPoint products; TippingPoint's ability to protect its intellectual property and to avoid costly litigation relating to its intellectual property; TippingPoint's ability to predict its manufacturing requirements accurately; risks relating to TippingPoint's expansion internationally; downturns in the network security and related markets; undetected product errors or defects; public perception of TippingPoint's products in the event of a security breach of one of its customer's networks; and litigation relating to the failure of one of TippingPoint's products. These and other risks and assumptions are described in TippingPoint's reports that are available from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. TippingPoint has no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward- looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

CONTACT:
Laura Craddick
512-681-8441
lcraddick@tippingpoint.com


Source: TippingPoint Technologies, Inc.

CONTACT: Laura Craddick of TippingPoint Technologies, Inc.,
+1-512-681-8441, or lcraddick@tippingpoint.com

Web site: http://www.tippingpoint.com/
http://www.theinfopro.net/


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