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Sourcefire to Increase Woodside's Network Security and Facilitate Regulatory Compliance

(March 11, 2008)-- Woodside, Australia's largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company, is deploying the Sourcefire 3D System to improve its global network security with increased network visibility and proactive threat protection.

The Sourcefire 3D System provides Woodside with a combination of Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) and leading-edge IPS capabilities that allow the company to safeguard its assets across four continents. Sourcefire RNA’s real-time visibility enables Woodside to easily identify new systems, vulnerabilities and policy violations throughout its worldwide network without impacting network performance. The company then uses this information to proactively enforce policies and tune its security devices for increased accuracy and protection. In addition, Sourcefire 3D’s innovative Compliance Whitelist capability enables Woodside to automate many of its security and compliance activities, so that it can easily define acceptable and unacceptable network activity for all of its users worldwide.

Built on a common foundation of network and user intelligence, the Sourcefire 3D System unifies four key Enterprise Threat Management (ETM) solutions – IPS, NBA, NAC and VA – to defend enterprise networks at all stages of the attack continuum – Before, During and After the attack. Sourcefire is the first network security vendor to integrate all four ETM components under the same management console, affording customers with both efficient and effective means for defending complex networks against today’s most costly threats.

“As today’s enterprises balance the need for complete security with the real-world challenge of effectively managing all of their devices and quickly responding to the latest threats, the innovative Sourcefire 3D System enables our customers to improve their security without increasing management resources,” said John Czupak, Vice President of International & Business Development at Sourcefire. “The Sourcefire 3D System provides Woodside security that goes beyond basic protection and delivers the network intelligence and automation to simplify management and help them meet the oil and gas industry’s strict regulations.”

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