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Mazu Networks Joins PCI Security Standards Council

Leading Network Behavior Analysis Provider to Work with PCI Standards Community to Improve and Enforce Best Practices to Meet the Most Pressing Payment Account Security Concerns

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - August 6, 2007 - Mazu Networks, the leading(1) provider of Network Behavior Analysis (NBA) systems, today announced its status as a Participating Organization of the PCI Security Standards Council, an independent industry standards body providing management of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (DSS) on a global basis. As a member, Mazu Networks will work with the Council to improve the current Data Security Standards and enforce policies and procedures that will help merchants, banks, processors and point of sale vendors address growing payment account security challenges.

"Being accepted by the PCI Security Standards Council as a Participating Organization is both an honor and an opportunity for Mazu Networks," said Charles Kaplan, chief strategist, Mazu Networks. "An honor because the board recognizes the value that NBA systems can bring to the payment process and an opportunity for Mazu Networks to help drive the Council to continue to update security best practices so that companies can actually secure payment data and effectively protect the sensitive and personal consumer information entrusted to them by their patrons."

Mazu Networks participates in the payment process system and provides value to the PCI Security Standards Council by offering an alternative to help companies achieve the results needed for control objective compliance and to compensate for weaknesses in traditional control approaches. Furthermore, Mazu does this continually, not just periodically when audits are performed. Mazu Networks' NBA system accomplishes this by enabling organizations to maintain a comprehensive, end-to-end network audit trail of all connectivity to, from and between regulated systems. It also monitors for behavior abnormalities within that traffic to identify and stop a wide range of security breaches.

"Having the opportunity to bring together organizations within the payments industry with vendors such as Mazu Networks is critical to the evolution of the PCI standards for today and in the future," said Bob Russo, general manager, PCI Security Standards Council. "Having exposure to the experiences of those in the trenches as well as to those making the tools to fight the war on data theft makes the policies we develop stronger, more realistic and practical."

About Mazu Networks, Inc.

Mazu Networks provides continuous global visibility into how users, applications, hosts and devices are behaving on a network, and detects if there are meaningful changes from their typical behavior that indicate a network performance issue, a security threat, or an application problem. Through Mazu, enterprises understand usage patterns, consumption rates and dependencies between users, applications and network infrastructure. Only Mazu offers continuous global visibility; passive, agent-less deployment, automatic and custom behavior analysis; and superior integration with network and security products. Mazu Networks' customers optimize their network infrastructure to support their business, secure their internal networks and maximize application availability. For more information, please visit www.mazunetworks.com.

(1) See: http://www.mazunetworks.com/news-events/061201-yankee.php.