Sourcefire Founder and University of South Carolina Information Security Officer to Discuss Benefits of Adaptive Network Security at Educause Conference

Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIRE), the creators of Snort® and a leader in intelligent Cybersecurity solutions, today announced that its founder and CTO, Martin Roesch, and Tom Webb, Information Security Officer at the University of South Carolina, will speak at the 2010 Educause Security Professionals Conference. During their presentation, Roesch and Webb will discuss techniques and technologies that educational institutions can employ to protect themselves from today’s dynamic threats.

Educational institutions require security solutions that can provide increased visibility into the network and the threats they are protecting against, so that they can adapt to changes and stop attacks before they can have an impact. During this session, Roesch and Webb will discuss why current network security solutions at universities are not getting the job done and what higher education institutions can do to improve their security.

Roesch has a long history of identifying real-world Cybersecurity challenges and developing solutions to address them. He founded Sourcefire in 2001 to deliver commercial security solutions that leverage his open source innovation, Snort, the world's most widely deployed intrusion detection and prevention technology with more than 270,000 active users and over 3.7 million downloads to date. As the de facto standard for intrusion detection and prevention, Snort is used extensively by Fortune 100 and Global 500 enterprises and government agencies.

Webb has more than 10 years of experience in IT administration and security. As the Information Security Officer at the University of South Carolina, Webb leads incident handler and forensic investigations, penetration testing, vulnerability management and risk assessments. Webb holds a number of IT industry certifications including numerous GIACs and a CISSP.

About Sourcefire

Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE) is a world leader in intelligent Cybersecurity solutions. Sourcefire is transforming the way Global 2000 organizations and government agencies manage and minimize network security risks. Sourcefire’s IPS and Real-time Adaptive Security solution equips customers with an efficient and effective layered security defense – protecting network assets before, during and after an attack. Through the years, Sourcefire has been consistently recognized for its innovation and industry leadership by customers, media and industry analysts alike – with more than 50 awards and accolades. Today, the names Sourcefire and founder Martin Roesch have grown synonymous with innovation and network security intelligence. For more information about Sourcefire, please visit http://www.sourcefire.com.

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