Acton, Mass. – September 6, 2005 – eIQnetworks™, Inc. (www.eIQnetworks.com), a global provider of comprehensive Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions for the enterprise, today announced that Vanguard Managed Solutions (VanguardMS), the leading independent source for managed network and security solutions, has joined eIQ’s Advantage MSSP Partner Program and leveraging this new partnership, recently launched a new powerful, comprehensive Unified Threat Management (UTM) service offering built on eIQ’s award-winning Network Security Analyzer SIEM solution.

By combining their industry-renowned security service expertise with eIQ’s Network Security Analyzer (NSA), VanguardMS’ newest UTM service provides cost-effective, real-time security event monitoring, correlated alerting, reporting, security event management, and log management capabilities for customers in many networked environments, including UTM appliances, firewalls, IDS/IPS, anti-virus, SPAM and spyware, SSL/VPNs and other network systems across widely distributed network topographies. Additionally, with NSA’s tightly integrated security audit compliance management capabilities, VanguardMS is effectively simplifying the security event management and compliance audit processes for its customers.

“Threats to the enterprise continue to escalate not only at the corporate headquarters but also increasingly at remote business locations. Our clients need to ensure network availability as well as data integrity and confidentiality all the way to the edge. As these organizations struggle with a lack of trained security and IT staff at remote stores and branch offices, VanguardMS is helping them with a comprehensive all-in-one network and security package,” said Doug Mow, vice president of marketing and corporate development, Vanguard Managed Solutions. “Partnering with eIQnetworks provides us with an integrated suite of infrastructure management tools and resources that delivers a remote network security and availability solution that our clients cannot obtain cost effectively on their own.”

Vijay Basani, chief executive officer of eIQnetworks added, “Our goal is to provide our customers with complete visibility into their security environment all the way to very edge of their network. VanguardMS is a pioneer in the MSSP marketplace; they are forging ahead to rapidly address the security concerns of their customers with a strategic, forward thinking approach to Unified Threat Management. They recognize the security implementation challenges - including providing comprehensive solutions in vastly distributed environments, adding valuable consulting, continuous security monitoring and identification/remediation of security breaches.”

NSA is the first and only security information/event management solution in the industry to include all essential components of Compliance Audit Lifecycle Management necessary to meet SOX, HIPAA, GLBA and FISMA security audit compliance, while also including centralized log management, real-time monitoring and correlation analysis, extensive reporting, and forensics analysis – all in a single solution.

Partnering with eIQ enables VanguardMS to offer the following new value-added services:

• Monitoring and Correlated Alerting – Correlate, monitor and alert on security event data across all customer devices in real-time and identify security breaches including viruses, intrusions, attacks, port activity, rule violations, denied/allowed traffic, protocol activity and more.

• Forensics Analysis – deliver on-demand post-incident forensics and investigative analysis by reconstructing the timeline of an attack or activity by a particular source or employee. It assists auditors in verifying an organizations’ regulatory compliance using ad-hoc search capability.

• Reporting - Using co-branded reporting portal to deliver new revenue generating services such as on-demand and customized reporting services to meet each customer’s unique security reporting requirements.

• Regulatory Compliance - Provide comprehensive and automated compliance reports, security event monitoring, correlated alerting, and forensics analysis to meet compliance with government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA and FISMA.

• Log Management – Automatically collect, correlate, compress, encrypt and archive log data from each customer’s devices to help them meet regulatory compliance requirements as well as conduct historical analysis.