LURHQ Receives Frost & Sullivan's Award for Growth Strategy Leadership for Excellence in World MSS Markets

PALO ALTO, CA, October 11, 2005 - Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, World Managed Security Services (MSS) Markets, selected LURHQ as the recipient of the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Growth Strategy Leadership. Each year, this award is given to a company that has demonstrated an exceptional growth strategy within the industry.

"LURHQ, a pure play provider of managed security services has a base of enterprise clients from a broad spectrum of industries including financial services, utilities, manufacturing, energy, and healthcare," says research analyst Loren Rudd. With its 100 percent SANS GIAC certified team of Intrusion Analysts and its analysis platform - Sherlock - the company provides security information and event management (SIEMS) services to its clients.

LURHQ was designated by SC Magazine as a finalist for the US Excellence Best Managed Security Solution award, and it was one of the first to be acknowledged by Cisco as an MSS advanced technology provider.

"LURHQ is honored to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the Managed Security Services Growth Strategy Leader," says Tony Prince, president and CEO of LURHQ. "Our high growth rates are a direct result of our focus on delivering high-quality services that help enterprises transform their security program into a strategic process."

LURHQ's recognition reveals the reasons this company has experienced such strong growth such as, a strong culture of partnership and responsiveness, effective service delivery, focus, and expertise. Additionally, its OPEN service delivery methodology fosters a partnership with clients by providing them real-time visibility into service delivery, complete control over their infrastructure, and a variety of mechanisms to provide LURHQ with service feedback.

This methodology embodies the company's culture of continual improvement and responsiveness. Moreover, "the absence of a tiered SLA and staffing structure in LURHQ's service plan has also proven attractive to many clients who wish to avoid being routed through generalists in the event of a security failure", says Rudd. LURHQ's non-tiered SLA structure includes a premium level of service protects clients from additional costs charged by other providers, such as exceeding a stated number of rule-set or signature changes and consultation time.

LURHQ has also developed a number of features designed to increase service delivery effectiveness. For example, its back-end technology, Sherlock, not only enables the company to grow significantly, but also contains proprietary analysis techniques for eliminating false positives. These combined features and methodologies appear to be contributing to a nearly complete rate of customer retention and strong sales growth.

"High rates of customer retention and strong differentiators are fueling triple-digit growth rates and a profitable business model at LURHQ in 2005," notes Rudd. This level of customer satisfaction and interest is also a function of LURHQ's focus and associated expertise.

According to Rudd, "LURHQ has a relatively simplified service portfolio that is delivered by true security experts, which indicates that it intends to perform a few vital services for its clients, and perform them well. While such a positioning would especially be appealing to the compliance segment, which is primarily looking for a 'checkmark' solution as part of their due diligence, LURHQ's main focus, and where the company excels, is with enterprise clients that are committed to surpassing the threshold of compliance by truly maximizing their network security."

For realizing dramatic growth through an elegant and unique business model, Frost & Sullivan is proud to name LURHQ the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Growth Strategy Leadership Award recipient.

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About LURHQ

LURHQ is the leading provider of Managed Security Services for security professionals. Founded in 1996, LURHQ empowers security professionals across its extensive base of enterprise clients through an integrated suite of Managed Security Services designed to deliver an effective Threat and Vulnerability Management solution. By combining scanning, intelligence, device management, monitoring and security information management processes into one comprehensive system, LURHQ's Threat and Vulnerability Management solution allows organizations to easily demonstrate Compliance, increase Efficiency, and enhance their Security Posture. Additionally, LURHQ's OPEN Service Delivery provides industry-leading visibility, keeping clients in control and resulting in a true partnership that yields maximum business value.