Breach Security Names Marc Shinbrood as New CEO

Seasoned professional brings significant security industry knowledge and expertise to the company

CARLSBAD, Calif. – March 15, 2005 – Breach Security, an emerging leader in deployable application security appliances, today announced that Marc Shinbrood has been appointed chief executive officer. Shinbrood has more than 30 years of information technology experience with the last 10 years of his career dedicated to the computer security industry. His leadership and business development skills will be critical to the company’s continued growth strategy.

“Marc brings strong leadership and industry contacts to the company and will only further advance Breach’s position in the application security market space.” said John Payne, chairman of Breach Security.

“Breach was one of the earliest entrants into the application security arena and has developed strong adaptive, policy and signature-based application IDS/IPS technology,” said Shinbrood. “Breach’s distributed detect/prevent architecture, which non-intrusively brings application intelligence to customer’s existing network infrastructure, will take application security to a new level.”

Before joining Breach, Shinbrood was president and CEO of Treasure Coast Software, a startup provider of E-mail Personal Information Containment (EPIC) solutions. Shinbrood also served as senior vice president of business development for AXENT Technologies Inc., an enterprise class information security software company, which was acquired by Symantec Corp. Shinbrood was also president and CEO of ShowCase Corp. and TechGnosis Inc. and held senior management positions with Precise Software Solutions, WQuinn Associates, Cullinet Software and Business Software Technology. Shinbrood was among one of the first to receive a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.

About Breach Security, Inc.

Breach Security, Inc. is a leading provider of next-generation web application security that protects corporate-critical information. Breach effectively protects web applications of commercial enterprises and government agencies alike against Internet hacking attacks and provides an effective solution for expanding security challenges such as identity theft, information leakage, and insecurely coded applications. Breach’s solutions are ideal for any organization’s regulatory compliance requirements for security.  Breach was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif. For more information visit: www.breach.com.

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