CARPINTERIA, Calif., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Demarc Security, a global provider of dynamic threat management solutions, today announced that The Planet Internet Services Inc., a leading Internet hosting and managed service provider, has implemented the Sentarus 5000 series to deliver intrusion detection and intrusion prevention services to its customers.

For the past seven years, The Planet has offered cutting-edge hosting and managed services including data storage and management, database administration, and security services. As an existing customer of Demarc PureSecure, when The Planet needed to upgrade its intrusion detection and prevention service to meet the demands of its growing customer base, it turned
to Sentarus, Demarc's next generation threat management solution. Sentarus is a comprehensive threat management solution that seamlessly integrates intrusion detection and intrusion prevention, vulnerability assessment scanning, system integrity verification, and extensible service
monitoring. Designed for global monitoring, analysis and response, Sentarus enables companies to centrally detect network- and host-based intrusion attacks, prevent future attacks, and maintain their network's overall stability.

The Planet has added more than 165,000 hostnames in 2004, increasing to 289,000. The company has quadrupled the number of active sites it hosts within the last year. As The Planet's customer base and operations continue to rapidly expand, the IT group determined that it needed to take its managed security services to the next level to protect its own growing network as well as that of its customers.

"Sentarus is an enterprise product, it's robust and can handle a lot of traffic. With Sentarus, we can get event correlation between the host-based agent and the network intrusion detection system," said Craig Rodenberg, The Planet's vice president, information security. "There are a lot of host-based IDS products that will block at the host and Sentarus not only offers that, but also allows us to block at the network, and prevent bad traffic from ever getting to our servers."

Sentarus offers companies effective IT risk mitigation and management through a comprehensive, centralized threat management solution. Sentarus helps The Planet ensure its 100 percent uptime service level agreements (SLAs) with customers such as The American Heart Association, CompUSA, 10k Wizards and GameSpy. The 24/7 security team at The Planet uses Sentarus to monitor customer networks, assess and address any issues before negative traffic can hit their customers' networks.

"Global 5000 firms want to manage business risks, not security technology controls," said Jim Hurley, Vice President of Risk, Security, and Compliance at Aberdeen Group. "Vendors that assist firms to understand and prioritize the business impact of security-related risks can fill a vacuum that currently exists."

About The Planet
The Planet Internet Services, Inc. is a fast-growing, profitable provider of managed hosting and Internet infrastructure services for businesses and organizations that require entry-level to enterprise IT support. The Planet's value-added services include advanced server monitoring, database administration, managed data storage, security products, virtual private networks and backup services. Co-location services are available for those customers desiring to use their own Web servers and rely on the Company's advanced, fault-tolerant facilities and network infrastructure. The Planet's Server Matrix Division provides entry-level and small business dedicated servers and co-location offerings coupled with managed services and a customer support portal. For further information, visit http://www.theplanet.com, or http://www.servermatrix.com.

About Demarc
Since 2001, Demarc has been providing scalable, centralized, dynamic threat management solutions to organizations in more than 25 countries around the world. From small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises, military and global government agencies, Demarc customers rely on Demarc solutions to ensure efficient, intelligent IT risk mitigation. Demarc is headquartered in
Carpinteria, CA. For more information, please visit the Demarc website at: http://www.demarc.com.

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