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Alert Logic Appoints Chris Smith Vice President of Marketing

Vendor of Hosted Network Threat Management Solutions Fills Key Position on Management Team with BindView Executive

HOUSTON – JANUARY 30, 2006 - Alert Logic, Inc., the leading provider of affordable network surveillance and defense solutions, today announced the appointment of Chris Smith as vice president of marketing. Smith brings 15 years of security and systems management industry experience to Alert Logic. He has held senior marketing positions with emerging and established vendors including BindView, BMC Software, NetIQ, PentaSafe Security Technologies, and Postini.

"Chris Smith is a security marketing veteran with a proven ability to create markets for new technology products," said Steve Kahan, President and CEO of Alert Logic. "With his security industry and early-stage company experience, Chris has all the tools to establish Alert Logic as the recognized leader in the network threat management market."

"Alert Logic has developed a sophisticated, automated, and subscription-based solution for the fastest growing, most underserved segment of the security market - small and mid-sized enterprises," said Chris Smith, vice president of marketing for Alert Logic. "Our technology enables smaller organizations to protect their internal networks as effectively as companies with large internal IT staffs, but at a fraction of the cost."

Smith joins Alert Logic from BindView (now Symantec), a global provider of IT security policy compliance software, where he was vice president of field marketing and RAZOR Research. He was responsible for the strategy, messaging, and positioning of BindView.s highly successful security compliance solutions and RAZOR program. Prior to BindView, Smith held senior marketing positions with Postini, a provider of email security services, NetIQ, a vendor of integrated systems and security management solutions, PentaSafe Security Technologies, a security management software vendor (acquired by NetIQ), and BMC Software, a provider of ebusiness systems management software. Smith holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from Rice University.

About Alert Logic

Alert Logic protects data networks from within, where perimeter defenses typically fail. The company’s core product, Invision Security, protects the network interior against worm infections and intrusions through a patent-pending threat scenario modeling, ranking, and remediation system. Leading e-commerce, energy, healthcare, and manufacturing companies rely on Alert Logic to secure their networks and information assets. For more information about Alert Logic and its products, please visit us at http://www.alertlogic.com.

Editorial Contact:

Sarah Gonzales
Public Relations Manager
phone: 713.351.1761
email: sgonzales@alertlogic.com

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