BLUE LANE DEMONSTRATES INDUSTRY’S FIRST INLINE PATCH PROXY
AT GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo 2005

Eases Operational Patching Burden with Functional Equivalent to Security Patch

ORLANDO, FL, October 18, 2005 – Blue Lane™ Technologies Inc., provider of the industry’s first inline patch proxy for enterprise servers, is demonstrating publicly for the first time their breakthrough PatchPoint inline patch proxy here at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, booth #1864. Like a vendor security patch, their inline patch proxy fixes application specific vulnerabilities at the root cause, with zero footprint on a server, eliminating the risks and costs of unscheduled patching and solving the “patch now or patch later” dilemma.

The patch now, patch later dilemma is faced by many enterprises when considering patches for servers. In a recent research note entitled “Automated Patching Remains Elusive” published by Gartner, they noted, “When organizations develop a strategy for security patches, they take into account a number of IT infrastructure capabilities as well as implied and expressed business requirements. At the heart of these requirements lies the trade-off between risk of failed patches and risk of attacks slipping through. It is a business decision to favor one over the other.”

Blue Lane is demonstrating how PatchPoint solves this dilemma, specifically showing:

• The functional equivalence of a security patch that an ActiveFix provides.

• Specific ActiveFix examples for Microsoft, Oracle and other platforms.

• The patch-oriented ease of use that PatchPoint provides for patch operations.

“Symposium ITxpo attendees are the first to see a public demonstration of the PatchPoint product,” said Fred Kost, vice president of marketing at Blue Lane. “They will get to see first hand a very compelling solution to a patch problem that many of their organizations and our customers face today.”

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