Acton, MA – July 11, 2005 – eIQnetworks™, Inc. (www.eIQnetworks.com), a global provider of award-winning security and systems management solutions for the enterprise, and Nexum Inc., a leading IT Security Solutions Provider , today announced that Nexum has achieved Platinum Partner status in eIQ’s Advantage Partner Program – an extensive, global channel partner program designed to address growing world-wide demand for eIQnetworks’ security and compliance management solutions.

To achieve Platinum status, Managed Security Services Provider partners participating in the eIQ Advantage Partner Program must meet aggressive revenue and unit sales goals and demonstrate ability to effectively deliver comprehensive outsourced security management services, incorporating eIQnetworks’ security event and compliance management solutions.

“We’ve designed an innovative managed security services offering along with our compliance architecture advisement service, which combines in-depth expertise and guidance with leading-edge technology,” said David Lesser, president and chief technology officer, Nexum Inc. “As an eIQnetworks Platinum Partner, we’ve impressed our customers and thus, bolstered their confidence even more. As we strengthen our security expertise with award-winning solutions that customers know will instantly shore up their security and network infrastructure, we’re finally giving them a leading edge over all their security woes.”

“Nexum exemplifies what it means to be a Platinum Partner in our Advantage Partner Program,” added Vijay Basani, chief executive officer of eIQnetworks. “In designing our program, we placed extraordinary emphasis on security and compliance management training; preparing our partners to become experts above all others in this space. As a Platinum Partner, Nexum is clearly demonstrating what it means to be a leader in delivering the caliber of services and solutions that are hoisting customers from the ever-widening security abyss.”

Nexum FirstDefense and the eIQ Solution: A Platinum Combination
The eIQ Advantage Partner Program was created in response to the significant volume of business moving through eIQnetworks channels and provides partners with the tools, training and support necessary to address customers’ quickly-evolving and expanding security and compliance management issues.

The program is designed to help partners address the challenge of meeting stringent federal compliance requirements and focus on delivering solutions that enable customers of any size across all industries and vertical markets to quickly, easily and affordably gain insight into their enterprise wide security posture while implementing a sound compliance audit lifecycle management strategy.

Nexum’s FirstDefense security and compliance management offering was designed to offer its clients a complete managed security service for companies of all sizes – from 5 to 3500 employees – and in any industry. Coupled with eIQnetworks’ solutions, FirstDefense provides customers with extensive security and compliance management capabilities, with benefits such as:

• Increased network availability to keep the business up-and-running;

• Mitigating business risk and ensuring legal compliance;

• 24x7x365 coverage to monitor threats and troubleshoot concerns;

• Comprehensive management of multiple homogeneous security devices from multiple vendors;

• Instant access to network information;

• Guaranteed Service Level Agreements;

• Access to critical information necessary to make informed decisions when purchasing network security products;

• Fault detection and fault management from a redundant network operations center (NOC).

• On demand reporting and correlation analysis

• Compliance audit lifecycle management via centralized log management, monitoring/alerting, compliance reporting (SOX, GLBA, HIPAA & FISMA), and Forensics Analysis.