For Immediate Release Oct 18, 2004 8:00 AM EDT

Skybox Security CEO Gidi Cohen to Speak at SecureWorld Seattle

Risk Mitigation Experts Discuss the State of the Practice for Measuring Risk Mitigation Strategies

Many enterprises are looking for models that can help measure security efficiency and effectiveness. The "Putting Vulnerability Assessment into Action" panel will focus on measurement programs that help security organizations become more proactive in their efforts to assess critical security risks and protect their enterprise networks. Moderated by Jim Reavis, President, Reavis Consulting Group, other panelists include executives from Washington Mutual, Perfigo, VantagePoint Security, PEMCO Corp, and SPI Dynamics. For a full conference schedule go to http://www.secureworldexpo.com/events/index.php?id=200 .

"Skybox Security has brought great value to our audience at SecureWorld Expo sharing expertise in the emerging area of security risk management, " said Chris Kokich, Conference Director for SecureWorld. " Bringing real-world experience directly from customers and sharing technology use-cases that are relevant to business and government agencies looking to adopt new security solutions is a great addition and we look forward to Skybox Security's participation in the future ."

SecureWorld is a national series of regional security conferences built for and by security executives (CISO's, CSO's, Director's of Security) in business, government, education and law enforcement representing the largest organization in their respective regions including: GM, Delphi, Visteon, State of Michigan , Dow Chemical, Daimler Chrysler, Comerica, ABN AMRO and many others. These executives not only direct the events by identifying the conference topics & keynote speakers but participate in panels and roundtables over the two days. Conference tracks range from Security Fundamentals to Corporate Security, Business Continuity and Security Management.

About Skybox Security

Skybox ® Security, Inc. is the leader of next-generation Security Risk Management (SRM) solutions. The company's flagship product, Skybox ® View, is the first enterprise software platform that raises vulnerability assessment, threat analysis, remediation planning, and change management to the business risk level where it belongs. By combining business impact analysis and simulation with vulnerability data and network modeling, enterprises can continuously maintain risk-resilient networks, reduce regulatory compliance exposures, and shrink the window of exposure from months to hours.

With Skybox View, security professionals can take a disciplined approach to measure business risk exposure, understand effectiveness of remediation alternatives, justify mitigation efforts (ROI), and minimize damage from attacks while lowering operating cost. By enhancing current best practices and internal controls with automated risk management analysis, the security, network and business units can work more effectively as a team. Skybox solutions have been successfully deployed at highly respected Global 2000 companies worldwide.

Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto , California and is backed by Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Carmel Ventures, and Mofet Technology Fund. For more information contact (650) 565-8060 or http://www.skyboxsecurity.com

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