Ottawa, Ontario (Business Wire) 13 December 2005

Third Brigade, Inc. (www.thirdbrigade.com) today announced that customers who have the Deep Security, used its advanced Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS), be immune from attack, the number of new Internet Explorer could be software vulnerabilities in the December Microsoft Security Bulletin exploited protected.

Two of the four vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer rated as critical. These weaknesses are part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-054. An attacker to exploit these critical of the vulnerabilities could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs, view, modify, or delete or create new accounts with full user rights.

There are known sites that take advantage of vulnerability CAN-2005-1790, based on the method Internet Explorer uses for mismatched Document Object Model objects. If a user visited that page, any code gets executed, that leaves malicious Trojan horse on the UserA? S Host. Third Brigade customers are affected by this vulnerability, since 23 November protected 2005th Third Brigade customers also received an update to an existing filter strengthened the protection for vulnerability CAN-2005-2831, the vulnerability instantiated remote code execution in the way Internet Explorer COM objects that are not intended to be instantiated in Internet Explorer is.

Third Brigade customers automatically receive updates with the latest filters that protect against these and other vulnerabilities. Third Brigade Deep Security stops proactive attacks before they impact hosts, helps compliance with industry regulations such as PCI (including Visa CISP, MasterCard SDP), Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, FISMA and corporate policies, reduces operating costs and prevent service disruption from attack caused.

Third Brigadeâ security on shipping todayâ s Microsoft security bulletins can be found here:?

http://www.thirdbrigade.com/security/dispatches.html

For more information on the Microsoft Security Bulletin can be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-dec.mspx

information on Third Brigade Deep Security, click here:

http://www.thirdbrigade.com/products/index.html

Third Brigade provides Host Intrusion Prevention Systems (HIPS) must implement in financial services, government, healthcare, telecommunications and other organizations, security best practices as part of a defense-in-Depth strategy. Our Deep Security solutions give you more control over your business. To stop attacks before they impact hosts, to ensure compliance with regulations and guidelines, maximize and performance of your people, processes and hosts. Unlike others, Third Brigade provides an innovative hybrid approach, a positive security model, proactive defense and a powerful management platform.

More information:

Kathy Schwab

Media and Analyst Relations

Third Brigade

(T) 613-599-4505 x3001

(M) 613-858-4407

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