Wednesday, 16 November 2005 16:18 EST

StillSecure Plays a Key Role in Driving Strategic Direction of Snort Intrusion Detection Rule Development

(Louisville, Colo. – November 15, 2005) – StillSecure, provider of an integrated suite of enterprise network security solutions, today announced that Alan Shimel, Chief Strategy Officer, was elected to the Open Source Snort Rules Consortium (OSSRC) Board of Directors. The OSSRC Board directs the strategic efforts of the OSSRC. The OSSRC is responsible for establishing metrics and standards for open source Snort rule development, providing a forum for sharing research and information for effective Snort rule development, and ensuring continuous support for a Snort ruleset licensed under the GPL.

Mr. Shimel was elected by a majority vote from OSSRC members and will serve a minimum of two years on the Board. As a Board member, he will be responsible for helping set overall policy for the OSSRC, introducing proposals that will be voted on by general membership, and overseeing the three Board committees. These include: the Quality Assurance and Standards Committee, the Rule Maintenance Committee, and the Administrative Committee.

"We are excited to have Alan join the OSSRC Board of Directors because of his expertise in network security as well as StillSecure's history of working closely with the open source community," said Martin Roesch, CTO and founder of Sourcefire. "Those who were elected to the OSSRC Board are truly committed to Snort rule development, and we're looking forward to working as a team to ensure the highest protection for users worldwide."

"I am deeply honored to have been elected by my peers to serve on the OSSRC Board of Directors. I will strive to ensure that Snort and the rules and signatures associated with it continue to remain a best-of-breed solution, freely available to all," said Alan Shimel, Chief Strategy Officer at StillSecure. "StillSecure is committed to supporting the Open Source movement and we're proud to contribute back to the community. Open source software, and solutions utilizing open source, continue to be widely adopted by organizations of all sizes because they provide real alternatives in the marketplace."

As Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at StillSecure, Mr. Shimel is responsible for helping to shape and develop the company's business and technology strategy and direction. In this role he serves as a primary interface and evangelist with partners, customers, peers, as well as the press and analyst communities. Additionally, he is responsible for StillSecure's participation in major industry initiatives such as the Trusted Computing Group, which develops and promotes open specifications, and OS2A, a vendor-neutral consortium for open source vulnerability scans.

More information on the OSSRC, including the charter and operating plan, are available at http://ossrc.snort.org.

About StillSecure
StillSecure delivers network security solutions that protect IT business infrastructure. The integrated StillSecure suite provides preventative defense, enables compliance with regulatory information security policies, and actively blocks network attacks. StillSecure manages and reduces risk from network attack and noncompliance for some of the largest organizations in the healthcare, financial services, government, and education sectors. For more information please call , or visit http://www.stillsecure.com.

About Snort
Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. Snort uses a flexible rules language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, as well as a detection engine that utilizes a modular plugin architecture. Snort has a real-time alerting capability as well, incorporating alerting mechanisms. Snort has three primary uses. It can be used as a straight packet sniffer, a packet logger, or as a full blown network intrusion prevention system.