Industry-Leading Intrusion Prevention Solution Voted Best Solution for Protecting Networks and Applications From Known and Unknown Threats by Publication's Readers.

Network Associates, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading provider of intrusion prevention solutions, today announced that its McAfee IntruShield intrusion prevention solution has won the Reader Trust Award in the category of "Best Intrusion Solution" for SC Magazine's annual Global Awards 2004. In a separate announcement today, the company announced the Reader Trust Award for "Best Business Continuity Software." Winners of the publication's annual awards were announced on April 27, 2004 at an awards ceremony held in London, England.

"Winning SC Magazine's Reader Trust Award for 'Best Intrusion Solution' is a tremendous honor for Network Associates because this was voted on by the readers of the publication and further validates that we are paving the way for leading-edge security," said Parveen Jain, executive vice president of McAfee marketing and strategy at Network Associates. "McAfee IntruShield's innovative network intrusion prevention solution continues to receive recognition in the industry as a best-in-class IPS technology, and winning this award is extremely rewarding."

The Reader Trust Award was comprised of 22 security-focused product categories, and winners were selected based on judges' deliberations, reader votes and vote validation exercises. The "Best Intrusion Solution" accolade was awarded to a solution that protects networks and applications from threats, both known and unknown. The McAfee IntruShield solution delivers enterprise organizations patented intrusion detection and prevention technology in a single device to fortify their IT security defenses, ensuring seamless business operations across multiple office locations.

About SC Magazine Global Awards 2004
With over 900 nominations in the SC Magazine Global Awards 2004 and over 300 individual companies participating, this is the world's leading awards program for the information security industry. www.scmagazine.com. Recognizing achievement and technical excellence across 32 different product and service categories, the SC Awards is a truly global program with participation from developers and users around the world. Finalists were published globally on Friday, March 19th and the winners in all categories will be announced at the SC Awards Gala dinner to be held at the Grosvenor Hotel, Park Lane, London on Tuesday, April 27th. For more information contact Chris Thomas, Global Publisher of SC Magazine at cthomas@westcoast.com.