Aprisma Enhances Spectrum Security Manager.

    New Features Maximize Business Uptime by Mapping Breach Attempts to                    Departments and Geographic Locations 

WASHINGTON, COMNET 2002 Booth #464 -- Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aprisma Management Technologies, the leader in intelligent service assurance solutions, today announced its enhanced SPECTRUM(R) Security Manager at COMNET 2002, Washington, D.C. Aprisma's enhanced security management solution underscores the industry's need to minimize denial-of-service and virus attacks and maximize threat assessments via intelligent correlation and reporting of isolated breach attempts.

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"Aprisma's new enhanced SPECTRUM Security Manager combines the award- winning fault isolation and root-cause analysis capabilities of SPECTRUM with powerful security device forensics to strengthen and protect an organization's network, systems and applications," said Michael Skubisz, president and CEO, Aprisma Management Technologies.

The enhanced SPECTRUM Security Manager has the ability gather information pertaining to isolated threats distributed across geographic locations or individual departments. The dispersed threats are correlated and filtered to a single console where potential attacks can be instantly pinpointed and appropriate actions taken to secure the infrastructure.

"SPECTRUM Security Manager enables NetEffect to implement security policies that meet our customer's unique network and business requirements," said Mel Kemp, vice president of Managed Network Solutions, NetEffect Corp. "NetEffect's Managed Security Offering leverages SPECTRUM's functionality to deliver a consistent managed security offering regardless of our customers infrastructure - unlike other security offerings which can restrict flexibility in security policy compliance and administration due to integration limitations."

More Security Devices Supported

With the current release, over 60 best-of-breed security devices are supported from today's top manufactures such as:

   -- Firewalls: Checkpoint, Cisco, Computer Associates, Nokia and Symantec.   -- Network Intrusion Detection: Enterasys, Internet Security Systems, and      SNORT.   -- Anti-Virus:  NAI, Trend Micro and Symantec.   -- VPN & Cryptographic Communication: Cisco, Entrust, Microsoft and      Netscreen.   -- Operating Systems/Databases: Hewlett Packard, IBM, Informix, LINUX,      Sun, Oracle.   -- Personal Security Products: Internet Security Systems, Network      Associates Inc., Trend Micro, Zone Labs. 

SPECTRUM Security Manager consists of a scalable three-tier architecture, which works together to manage and monitor the entire security infrastructure. This includes the master server, concentrator, and host -- that all work together to gather events and logs to classify, prioritize and correlate information. Real-time classification and correlation is critical in providing a comprehensive security solution since potential security threats are not always reflected by a single event.

About Aprisma

Aprisma Management Technologies is the leader in intelligent service assurance solutions. Aprisma's SPECTRUM suite of integrated applications delivers Service Level Intelligence(TM) across multi-vendor network, system, application, and security infrastructures. SPECTRUM software is deployed by over 2,800 leading enterprises and service providers that are reducing costs while exceeding customers' service delivery expectations.

Aprisma proudly acknowledges that over 50 of the Fortune Global 100 rely on SPECTRUM for infrastructure service assurance. Additional information on SPECTRUM and related Aprisma solutions are available at http://www.aprisma.com/ or by contacting Aprisma sales at +1 (877)-437-0291 Domestic U.S, 1(603)-334- 2100 International, as well as authorized SPECTRUM resellers worldwide.

SPECTRUM is a registered trademark of Aprisma Management Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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This release may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding the future financial performance of the Company or other future events and circumstances. Such forward-looking statements by their nature involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results or events could differ materially. Risks that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those described in the projections or forward-looking statements include business disruption and market perceptions associated with the Company's plan to transform its business into an independent, public company, as well as risks associated with competitive conditions, pricing and margin pressures as a result of product shifts and changes in market dynamics, greater use of, and expenses associated with, distributors and resellers, limited management resources, the Company's acquisition strategy, volatility in the stock markets and market valuations being placed on infrastructure management software companies, technological changes, intellectual property protection and related issues, and potential volatility in operating results, among others. For a more detailed discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties related to the Company's business, please refer to the Company's most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Contact: Michael Emerton of Aprisma Management Technologies, +1-603-334-3201, memerton@aprisma.com

Website: http://www.aprisma.com/