For Immediate Release

Skybox Security Wins SC Magazine Award for Best Security Solution
in Financial Services Category

Leading Financial Services Firms Applying the Power of Virtual Modeling and Simulation to Transform Security into a Proactive Risk Management Process

SAN JOSE, CA - RSA 2006 - February 15, 2006- Skybox® Security, Inc., the leader in Security Risk Management (SRM), today announced that it has been named Best Security Solution for Financial Services by SC Magazine at an awards ceremony that took place at RSA 2006 on Feb. 15, 2006.

This year, SC Magazine received more than 1,300 product and service nominations from more than 330 competing global companies, a record number for the magazine. "On behalf of our customers, partners and employees, we're honored to be recognized for this prestigious award," said Edward Cooper, vice president of worldwide marketing for Skybox Security. "This honor demonstrates our commitment to giving customers the analytics and visibility into their risk profile that is needed to achieve proactive Security Risk Management (SRM) process."

Developed to bring attention to the security industry's top products, the SC Magazine Awards highlight the important role that information security professionals play in helping to shape the industry.

Skybox has secured an impressive list of flagship financial-services companies. Major financial services firms have leveraged Skybox View's unique modeling and simulation technology to automate labor-intensive processes, reduce IT workload, reduce risk exposure, and eliminate human error. By deploying security risk management solutions as a best practice, these firms have transformed IT security from the great unknown to a true business enabler.

SC Magazine Awards 2006

With more than 1,300 product and service nominations from more than 330 competing global companies, the SC Magazine Awards are the world's leading awards program for the information security industry. The awards are composed of both the Reader Trust Technology Awards and the Professional Awards. Recognizing technical excellence and professional achievement across a variety of different categories, the SC Magazine Awards are a truly unique program developed to bring attention to the industry's top products and highlight the professionals that have both created and implemented them. These industry achievements are acknowledged during an awards ceremony which took place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California on Feb. 14, 2006.

About Skybox Security

Skybox® Security pioneered the science of quantifiable security risk analysis and is driving the advancement of the Security Risk Management (SRM) market. The company's award-winning product Platform, Skybox View™, is the first and only software solution to create a virtual model and staging environment of an organization's network security and access profile.

This virtual model can be safely attacked, changed and analyzed for the purpose of improving the security profile of the network as well as validating the impact of proposed network changes within defined policies. The result is a more secure network, operational efficiency and reduced IT workload. Skybox View Platform supports two major applications - Skybox Secure™ and Skybox Assure™ - through a modular, scalable Platform.

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