SecureWorks Named to the Inc. 500 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies for Second Year Running

SecureWorks Ranks No. 163 on the 2006 Inc. 500 With Three-Year Sales Growth of 672%

Atlanta, GA., September 5, 2006 - Inc. magazine has announced its 25th annual Inc. 500 ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the country. For the second year in a row, SecureWorks, a leading Managed Internet Security Services Provider, is named to the list with a ranking of 163rd and a three year sales growth of 672%.

SecureWorks, named by the Yankee Group as a "Market Leader" among Pure Managed Security Service Providers (PMSSPs), protects the corporate networks, servers and email environments of 1,300 clients nationwide in the banking, healthcare and utility industries.

The 2006 Inc. 500, as revealed in the September issue of Inc., reported the most robust bunch of companies the magazine has ever compiled, with aggregate revenue of $19.7 billion, up from $16.5 billion last year and $12.9 billion in 2000. In all, 14 companies topped $200 million in annual revenue, compared with 11 last year. Most important, the 2006 Inc. 500 companies were engines of job growth, having created more than 90,000 jobs since those companies were founded.

"If you want to find out which companies are going to change the world, look at the Inc. 500," said Inc. Editor Jane Berentson. "These are the most innovative, dynamic, fast-growth companies in the nation, the ones coming up with solutions to some of our most intractable ills, creating systems that let us conduct business faster and easier, and manufacturing products we soon discover we can't live without. The Inc. 500 list is Inc. magazine's tribute to American business ingenuity and ambition."

"We are seeing tremendous growth in the Managed Security Services market," said Mike Cote, president and CEO of SecureWorks. "Many industries in addition to the financial market are adopting tighter security controls as part of their core business processes, while others are implementing regulations to reduce risk, and these affected organizations are turning to security services providers to help them."

"In addition, targeted attacks are increasing and are becoming more sophisticated requiring a greater level of security expertise to implement dynamic countermeasures," continued Cote. "SecureWorks employs the top security talent in the country, and we are dedicated to protecting our clients' networks 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is this expertise, coupled with our excellent client service and sophisticated technology, that is the foundation of our success. We are delighted to have been recognized by Inc magazine and are honored to be an Inc. 500 winner for second year in a row."

This year's list is the first to include businesses that started up immediately before and after September 11, 2001 - including the No. 1 company and 20 companies in the top 50 - as well as many companies that had to raise capital after the dot-com bubble burst. In total, 104 companies listed on this year's Inc. 500 were started after 2000.

Hottest Industries for Fastest-Growing Businesses

The largest business category among this year's Inc. 500 is IT Services, with 68 companies in this category. Health (36 companies), Retail (35 companies), Real Estate (30 companies), and Human Resources (29 companies) round out the top industries ranked on the 2006 Inc. 500.

Methodology

The 2006 Inc. 500 list measures revenue growth from 2002 through 2005. To qualify, companies had to be U.S.-based, privately held independent - not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies - as of December 31, 2005, and have, and have at least $600,000 in net sales in the base year.

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About SecureWorks

SecureWorks, named by the Yankee Group as a leading MSSP, ranked 163rd on the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies List for 2005 and 39th on the 2005 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America. SecureWorks is the only service that prevents network intrusions at the perimeter, firewall and host levels; monitors client networks 24x7x365; provides ongoing vulnerability assessments; and protects email from spam and viruses while automatically encrypting email to protect confidential information.  SecureWorks is a member of the elite FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams). SecureWorks has been listed on CIO magazine's "CIO 100 List" for two consecutive years. www.secureworks.com.