Online enterprise security is integral to an organization's ability to operate effectively. In order to build and maintain the trust of corporate customers, end users, and internal personnel, a company must be able to demonstrate its ability to protect its corporate content and maintain mission-critical functionality at all times. Verifia's NetGeo solution enables organizations to identify and thwart security risks to their enterprise networks before any disruption or loss occurs.

Situation Analysis
Online security has become increasingly important in today's environment of increasingly sophisticated hackers, malignant Internet-spread viruses, and other factors that threaten to compromise a network's integrity. Worldwide revenues for security software alone are expected to grow from $2.8B in 2000 to $7.7B in 2004 according to IDC (2000). The market for security-related consulting and services is expected to be equally significant.

The Solution
Verifia's NetGeo intelligence agents can identify in real time a user's geographical location and the method in which a user is accessing a web site without relying on the use of cookies or visitor registration. As a result, NetGeo's technology increases a company's ability to identify individuals' seeking to mask their identity for fraudulent purposes while also protecting the privacy, and maintaining positive user experiences for the majority of its web site visitors. Significantly, InfoScope can also identify and associate predictive values to certain domains and Internet blocks that are most likely to yield malignant viruses and other Internet-born threats, enabling enterprises the ability to detect early on potential dangers before their networks are compromised.

Multinational enterprises, security software/services businesses and other companies are currently exploring with NetGeo the potential online security uses for the company's IP-based AcuProfile technology (upon which InfoScope is based). Currently, NetGeo's technology can be utilized to identify those areas of the Internet that are at high risk for criminal or otherwise disruptive online activity. Future applications of NetGeo's technology could enable enterprises to find and disable destructive computer viruses before they even hit the corporate firewall.