Third Brigade acquires OSSEC

Ottawa, ON and Reston, VA - June 16, 2008 - Third Brigade
(www.thirdbrigade.com <

http://www.thirdbrigade.com/> ), a security
software company specializing in host intrusion detection and prevention
systems (IDS/IPS <
http://www.thirdbrigade.com/product.aspx?id=3D48> ),
today announced that it has acquired OSSEC <http://www.ossec.net/> , a
leading open source, host-based intrusion detection system, and that
Daniel Cid, creator and primary developer for OSSEC, has joined the
Third Brigade team as Principal Researcher, OSSEC Development. Third
Brigade will continue to contribute to the open source community with
new releases of OSSEC, and will extend commercial support and training
to the OSSEC open source community.

The OSSEC project produces a multi-platform, scalable, host-based
intrusion detection system (HIDS) which provides security controls
including log analysis, integrity checking, real-time alerting and
active response. In addition to continuing to deliver these capabilities
through the free OSSEC open source project, this functionality will also
be incorporated in future Third Brigade products.

"OSSEC is a very successful open source security project, and there are
many organizations that are requesting enterprise-caliber support for
their OSSEC deployments," said Wael Mohamed, CEO, Third Brigade. "Like
Third Brigade, OSSEC is committed to delivering best-of-breed,
host-based security controls for multi-platform, enterprise server
environments.  Together, we will ensure the continued success of this
thriving open source community through dedicated resources and extended
support."

The OSSEC community has active users in 40 countries. In the U.S. the
community includes two of the largest commercial banks, three of the top
five financial data services companies, the top three entertainment
companies, the top six aerospace and defense firms and more than 150
universities and colleges. This is further validation of the importance
of host intrusion defense in mission critical environments.

"For us, one of the best things about OSSEC has been its flexibility,"
said John Ives, Senior Security Analyst, System and Network Security,
University of California, Berkeley. "Using functionality that comes with
OSSEC, our most critical systems have become 'self defending' with host
firewalls automatically blocking IP addresses that are attacking them.
We have also taken this concept a step further by using this same
information, which is generated from OSSEC, to publish a list of
aggressive IPs to the campus community."

OSSEC began as an open source project 2003, written by Daniel Cid. In
the last two years, the project has issued five major releases of the
OSSEC HIDS, including the most recent in early May, 2008. The project
continually receives support and praise from its active user community,
the security community and the general open source community. Daniel now
joins Third Brigade as Principal Researcher, OSSEC Development and will
be dedicated to development and support of OSSEC going forward.

"I am extremely proud of the OSSEC user community and pleased that Third
Brigade is providing me with this opportunity to dedicate my time to the
continued success of the OSSEC open source project," said Daniel Cid,
founder of OSSEC. "I am also excited to join the Third Brigade team and
see OSSEC functionality added in future Third Brigade products."

OSSEC software is scalable and easy to install across multiple platforms
including Microsoft(r) Windows(r), SolarisTM, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD,
MacOS and more. In 2007, LinuxWorld recognized OSSEC as the #1 open
source security tool, noting that it is "gaining widespread use and is
quickly being deployed within organizations around the world as a method
of protecting systems at the host level after attacks have made it past
network defenses in the enterprise".

Under the terms of the transaction, Third Brigade has acquired the OSSEC
project and related trademarks, as well as copyrights held by Daniel
Cid, the principal member of the OSSEC project, and the OSSEC.net
domain, web site and web site content.   Daniel Cid is also a co-author
of the book "OSSEC Host-Based Intrusion Detection Guide" which is
available for sale at leading bookstores or online at Amazon.com
<http://www.amazon.com/OSSEC-Host-Based-Intrusion-Detectio...
749240X> .

OSSEC software is free and available for download at:
http://www.ossec.net <http://www.ossec.net/> 

About Third Brigade

Third Brigade (www.thirdbrigade.com <http://www.thirdbrigade.com/> )
best-of-breed host intrusion defense systems protect critical data and
applications, including those on virtual machines, from attacks that
bypass or penetrate network defenses, and target vulnerabilities in
operating systems, and enterprise and web applications. With a high
performance deep packet inspection engine, Third Brigade Deep Security
detects and prevents known and zero-day attacks, and provides a virtual
patch for Microsoft(r) Windows(r), Solaris(tm), Linux, and other Unix(r)
hosts on physical and virtualized systems. It helps ensure regulatory
compliance with PCI and other standards, and prevents costly business
disruptions. Unlike others, Third Brigade provides broader, faster and
simpler protection.  Third Brigade. That's control.

Note: "Third Brigade", "Deep Security Solutions", and the Third Brigade
logo are trademarks of Third Brigade, Inc. and may be registered in
certain jurisdictions.  All other company and product names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

For more information:

Laura Maio

Media & Analyst Relations

Third Brigade, Inc.

(T) 613-599-4505 x2238

(M) 613-219-2800

laura.maio@thirdbrigade.com <
mailto:laura.maio@thirdbrigade.com>