Exaprotect Appoints Thierry Costa as Vice President of Marketing

Fifteen-year Technology Veteran to Drive Market Share and Accelerate US Presence

Mountain View, California—May 5, 2008—Exaprotect, a leader in security management, today announced it has expanded their executive team by adding Thierry Costa to serve as vice president of marketing. Exaprotect recently relocated the company’s corporate headquarters to the United States and Costa will be instrumental in accelerating Exaprotect’s presence in this market by defining innovative marketing and product strategies. A proven leader in technology marketing for more than 15 years, Costa brings extensive expertise in brand-building, sales force readiness and market development for enterprise software companies to his role on the Exaprotect executive management team.

Costa joins Exaprotect from Reportive, an innovative provider of fully integrated reporting, analytics and SFE (Sales Force Effectiveness) solutions for business users, where he served as vice president of marketing. In this role, Costa helped transform a small niche player into a worldwide leader of reporting solutions for the pharmaceutical industry, resulting in 18 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies using Reportive for their market research and sales force effectiveness efforts.

Prior to Reportive, Costa held a variety of senior management positions in both early-stage start-ups and large public companies, including Xacct Technologies, Broadvision and Hewlett-Packard where he led their software security strategy.

“I am truly excited by this new opportunity at Exaprotect and look forward to joining the company during this period of accelerated growth,” said Thierry Costa, vice president of marketing at Exaprotect. “Exaprotect has the right approach integrating security, endpoint and network infrastructure to provide a foundation for enforcing and managing security policies across an enterprise and I look forward to bringing Exaprotect’s unique solutions to market.”

“Thierry brings with him an impressive combination of marketing, brand-building and management experience with keen insight into driving growth in the market,” said Jean-François Dechant, CEO of Exaprotect. “He is an excellent addition to Exaprotect’s management team and his notable talents will be instrumental in helping Exaprotect achieve its next level of growth.”

Costa holds both a BS and MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University.

About Exaprotect

Exaprotect (www.exaprotect.com), located in Mountain View, California, is a leading provider of security management for enterprises and service providers with large-scale, heterogeneous infrastructures. By linking business policies to specific network configurations, Exaprotect’s products increase operational efficiency of network and security teams, facilitate meeting regulatory and audit compliance and mitigate security risks.

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