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Corero Network Security to Present on DDoS Attacks and Mitigation Techniquesat Interop Las Vegas

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Corero Network Security (CNS: LN), today announced that they are presenting on the evolving DDoS threat landscape at Interop, being held May 6-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Hudson, MA (USA), Tuesday – April 17th, 2012 — Corero Network Security (CNS: LN), the leading provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Solutions, today announced that they are presenting on the evolving DDoS threat landscape at Interop, being held May 6-10 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ashley Stephenson, executive vice president, will be a featured presenter at Interop. The event will take place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas from May 6-10, 2012.

WHO: Ashley Stephenson, Corero Network Security Executive Vice President
WHAT: “Application Layer DDoS Attacks: Motives, Mechanisms, and Mitigation”
WHERE: The Mandalay Bay ConventionCenter, Las Vegas
WHEN: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 9:00 am PDT

During the session Stephenson will examine the motivations behind today’s DDoS attacks, highlighting how hackers increasingly are using them as smokescreens to divert attention from surreptitious attacks aimed at stealing data. He also will take an in-depth look at the evolving mechanisms used to launch attacks, both newlow and slow application-layer DDoS attacks and traditional bandwidth consuming network-layer DDoS attacks. In addition, hewill share real-world attack scenarios and discuss ways to stop DDoS attacks.

About Corero Network Security:
Corero Network Security (CNS:LN) ( http://www.corero.com/en/products_and_services/ps_services/securewatch_plus ) is an international network security company and the leading provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defense and Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions ( http://www.corero.com/en/products_and_services/ips/products_and_services_ips_overview ). Corero’s products and services ( http://www.corero.com/en/products_and_services/ps_services/securewatch_plus ) provide comprehensive, integrated, high-performance protection against constantly evolving network-borne cyber threats. Customers include enterprises, service providers and government organizations worldwide. Corero’s appliance-based solutions are highly adaptive and preemptively respond to modern cyber attacks, known and unknown, protecting critical information and online assets. Corero’s products are transparent on the network, highly scalable, and feature the lowest latency and highest reliability in the industry. Corero is headquartered in Hudson, Mass., with offices around the world.

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Corero Network Security Appoints Ashley Stephenson as Executive Vice President

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Veteran Technology Entrepreneur will lead Corero’s Global Expansion Strategy.

Hudson, MA (USA), Tuesday – April 17th, 2012 — Corero Network Security (CNS: LN), the leading provider of DDoS Defense and Next Generation IPS (NGIPS) solutions, today named veteran IT industry expert Ashley Stephenson as executive vice president. An Internet technology entrepreneur, Stephenson, who has operating experience in the United States, Europe and Asia, will lead Corero’s global expansion strategy.

“We are delighted to have someone of Ashley’s caliber join Corero. His proven executive leadership experience, international expertise and channel know-how will help us take the company’s solutions to the next level in the escalating battle against cyber attacks,” said Marty Meyer, CEO of Corero.

Stephenson co-founded or led several IT companies as chairman or CEO including Reva Systems, acquired by ODIN, and Xedia Corporation, acquired by Lucent. Most recently, he has provided strategic advisory services to leading companies on the evolution of the global IT market. Stephenson has served on the board of directors of several startups and industry consortia. He also was awarded “CEO of the Year” by the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council.

“I’m very excited to join Corero. The company’s game-changing DDoS Defense and Next Generation IPS technology make this a unique opportunity to expand the business as the network security market continues to experience explosive growth,” Stephenson said.

“We will continue to build on our strategy to work with key partners around the globe to build out an intelligent next generation defense infrastructure against cyber attacks. The more enterprises and institutions we protect, the more we learn about the evolving nature of the threats. It is a win-win-win for our partners, our customers and Corero,” Stephenson added.

Corero’s products and services provide its customers with a robust, high-performance defense against the constantly evolving and increasingly sophisticated realm of cyber attacks. Its DDoS Defense System (DDS), which stops DDoS attacks, and NGIPS solutions are pro-actively protecting the networks and IT resources of enterprises, service providers and government organizations worldwide.

About Corero Network Security:
Corero Network Security (CNS: LN) is an international network security company and the leading provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) defense and Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) solutions. Corero’s products and services provide comprehensive, integrated, high-performance protection against constantly evolving network-borne cyber threats. Customers include enterprises, service providers and government organizations worldwide. Corero’s appliance-based solutions are highly adaptive and preemptively respond to modern cyber attacks, known and unknown, protecting critical information and online assets. Corero’s products are transparent on the network, highly scalable, and feature the lowest latency and highest reliability in the industry. Corero is headquartered in Hudson, Mass., with offices around the world.

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Corero Protects Its Customers From ‘Apache Killer’ DoS Exploit

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Company’s Intrusion Prevention Systems Mitigate Threats to Apache Server, The World’s Most Widely Used Web Server.

Hudson, MA, Thursday – September 08, 2011 — Corero Network Security (CNS:LN), a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Systems, notified customers that it protects them from the ‘Apache Killer’ denial of service (DoS) exploit with its IPS 5500 products. ‘Apache Killer’ exploits a vulnerability found in the Apache Web Server software. Although hundreds of DoS vulnerabilities have been discovered in commercial and open-source software so far in 2011, this particular vulnerability is significant since Apache Server is the world’s most popular web server, with nearly 66 percent of the market or nearly 200 million web sites in use, according to Netcraft.

Corero’s IPS 5500 provides proactive protection for the Apache Killer exploit as a result of its two-tiered “PVM+DVM” Stateful Protocol Analysis (SPA) implementation. In this case, the IPS 5500 HTTP Protocol Validation Module (PVM) detects and blocks attempts to cause the denial of service condition on the Apache servers. No new signatures were required for this protection which was built in to Corero’s IPS solutions.

“Our IPS solution is unique in that it is purpose built to protect not only against traditional flood-based DDoS and new application layer attacks but also attacks like the Apache Killer. We safeguard our customers’web servers from Apache Killer denial of service exploits that can be caused by just a very small number of network transactions,” said Mike Paquette, chief strategy officer, Corero Network Security.

For more information on Corero’s IPS products, visit: http://www.corero.com .

About Corero’s IPS Solution:
The IPS 5500 EC-Series and ES-Series products are Corero’s most advanced generation family of Intrusion Prevention Systems. It is designed to deliver non-disruptive protection against constantly evolving threats. It provides maximum security for critical IT assets while allowing full access to legitimate users and applications.

The IPS 5500 EC/ES offers proactive protection against threats while patches are being tested and deployed. It provides:
* Improved security posture through acceptable application usage enforcement
* Regulatory compliance through protection of confidential data
* Protection against theft of intellectual property due to undesired access
* Reduction in IT hours devoted to fixing/remediating systems infected by viruses, botnet programs, and other malware
*Reduction of downtime from DDoS attacks and botnet threats.

About Corero Network Security:
Corero Network Security (CNS:LN), formerly Top Layer Security, is a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Solutions (DDS) that enable enterprise organizations to protect their critical on-line assets against risks associated with network-borne cyber threats.

Corero has been consistently recognized through the years for its product innovation and leadership by customers, media and industry analysts alike. Corero is headquartered in Massachusetts, U.S. with sales and services support worldwide. For more information please visit: http://www.corero.com .

Press & Media Contact:
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Corero Network Security Appoints CEO

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Marty Meyer Takes CEO Reins.

Hudson, MA, Wednesday – August 17, 2011 — Corero Network Security (CNS: LN), a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Systems, has named Marty Meyer as Chief Executive Officer to lead the company through its next phase of growth. Meyer joined the company in March 2011 as General Manager and Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

Meyer’s appointment follows the acquisition of Top Layer Security by Corero, announced in February 2011, the first step in the execution of Corero’s strategy to build a security systems business focused on the network security market. Top Layer subsequently rebranded as Corero Network Security.

“Significant growth potential exists for anti-DDoS and IPS technology to address ever increasing cyber-threats,” said Jens Montanana, Chairman of Corero. “Marty and the management team have the requisite skill set and extensive experience to capitalize on this opportunity as we cement our network security leadership position through continued product innovation and execution of our aggressive corporate strategy.”

Meyer has more than 25 years of experience in finance, operations and engineering with both fast-growing start-ups and established technology companies. Prior to Corero, he served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and CFO at ExtendMedia where he was responsible for SaaS operations, finance, engineering, customer support and business affairs. He was a key member of the management team that successfully completed the sale of ExtendMedia to Cisco Systems, Inc. in September 2010.

Before joining ExtendMedia, Meyer was COO and CFO of several high-tech start-ups including Bowstreet (now part of IBM), a provider of enterprise portal software solutions, Ucentric Systems (now part of Motorola), a provider of networked DVR software solutions and Xedia Corporation (now part of Alcatel Lucent), a provider of intelligent network routers. He started his career as an engineer for Stratus Computer.

Corero ( http://www.corero.com ) is a global provider of innovative IPS and a leading provider of DDS. Corero’s network security infrastructure solutions help commercial and government organizations protect their critical on-line assets from the losses and risks associated with cyber threats. Its family of IPS appliances is designed with the most advanced protection capabilities against known and unknown attacks at the highest tested performance rates. Corero also announced in June the launch of a new anti-DDoS product line, DDS, which provides advanced DDoS protection on both the network- and application-layers.

About Corero Network Security:
Corero Network Security (CNS:LN), formerly Top Layer Security, is a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Solutions (DDS) that enable enterprises to protect critical on-line assets against risks associated with network-borne cyber threats.

Corero is consistently recognized through the years for product innovation and leadership by customers, media and industry analysts alike.

Corero is headquartered in Massachusetts, U.S. with sales and services support worldwide. For more information please visit: http://www.corero.com .

Press & Media Contact:
Tiffany Darmetko or Brenna Hagy
Schwartz Communications, Inc
Hudson, MA
+1 781-684-0770
Corero@schwartzcomm.com

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Corero Expands Management Team with Executive Appointment

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Leader in IPS and DDoS Defense Systems Names Paul Jones as Vice President of Engineering.

Hudson, MA, Thursday – July 14, 2011 — Corero Network Security (CNS:LN), a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Solutions, named technology veteran Paul Jones as vice president of Engineering to the company management team.

As VP of Engineering, Paul is responsible for the company’s engineering infrastructure and processes including executing Corero’s aggressive product development roadmap. Paul brings a breadth of experience in strategic and tactical product engineering for networking products. He managed Engineering at Sonus Networks (VoIP), Indus River Networks (Managed VPN), Stratus Computer (Fault Tolerant Computing) and Stellar Computer (Graphics Supercomputing). He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Brown University and a Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.

“Paul joins Corero at an exciting time of transformational growth for the company, marked by the recent introduction of our dedicated anti-DDoS product line,” said Marty Meyer, General Manager and CFO at Corero Network Security. “Paul’s proven track record in bringing to market cutting edge products will bolster our efforts to address the latest cyber threats that are increasing in frequency and sophistication. We are delighted that he’s joined the Corero team and look forward to benefiting from the experience that we believe he’s uniquely able to provide.”

Corero ( http://www.corero.com ) is a global provider of innovative Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and a leading provider of DDoS Defense Systems (DDS). Corero is developing and bringing to market network security infrastructure solutions that help commercial and government organizations protect their critical on-line assets from the losses and risks associated with cyber threats. Its family of IPS appliances is designed with the most advanced protection capabilities against known and unknown attacks at the highest tested performance rates. It also announced the launch of a new anti-DDoS product line, DDS, which provides advanced DDoS protection on both the network- and application-layers.

About Corero Network Security:
Corero Network Security (CNS:LN), formerly Top Layer Security, is a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense Solutions (DDS) that enable enterprise organizations to protect their critical on-line assets against risks associated with network-borne cyber threats. Corero has been consistently recognized through the years for its product innovation and leadership by customers, media and industry analysts alike. Corero is headquartered in Massachusetts, U.S. with sales and services support worldwide. For more information please visit: http://www.corero.com .

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz
Principal
MediaPR.net
Hudson, MA
(978) 594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net

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