INTZ Intrusion Inc

RICHARDSON, Texas, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Intrusion Inc. (NASDAQ:INTZ) ("Intrusion") announced today that Jay Barbour has joined the company as vice president of marketing. Barbour, who has seven years of experience in IT security product marketing, most recently was vice president of product management at ScanSafe, the world's first and leading provider of managed web security services. In this position, he developed innovative product roadmaps and created effective strategies to bring the company's new services to market. "Jay is very knowledgeable and experienced in marketing IT security products and services," said G. Ward Paxton, Intrusion's chairman, president and CEO. "His expertise will be invaluable to Intrusion in marketing our Compliance Commander, TraceCop and SecureNet product lines." Prior to ScanSafe, Barbour consulted for various start-up companies in the wireless and security space. He also spent four years in Silicon Valley in various product management roles, including a position at 3Com, where he developed and marketed innovative embedded security solutions, and a post at HP, where he developed WiFi collaborative applications based on internal technology. Barbour's other experience includes two years of corporate finance in the energy sector (ARCO, London, UK - now BP) and three years of computer services as an engineer for Schlumberger in the Middle East and South America. He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Queen's University, Canada, in 1991. Barbour also earned an MBA from INSEAD, France, in 1996, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). About Intrusion Inc. Intrusion Inc. is a leading global provider of regulated information compliance, entity identification systems, data privacy protection products, along with network intrusion prevention and detection solutions. In addition, Intrusion offers deployment technologies along with security services for the information-driven economy. Intrusion's product families include the Compliance Commander(TM) for regulated information and data privacy protection, TraceCop(TM) identification and location service, Intrusion SpySnare(TM) for real-time inline blocking of spyware and unwanted P2P applications, and Intrusion SecureNet(TM) for network intrusion prevention and detection. Intrusion's products help protect critical information defenders by quickly detecting, protecting, analyzing and reporting attacks or misuse of classified, private and regulated information for government and enterprise networks. For more information, please call 1-888-637-7770 or visit http://www.intrusion.com/ . Forward Looking Statements This release, other than historical information, may include forward- looking statements regarding future events or our future performance. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward looking statements, including, without limitation, the difficulties in forecasting future sales caused by current economic and market conditions, the effect of military actions on government and corporate spending on information security products, the impact of our cost reduction programs and our refocused product line, the difficulties and uncertainties in successfully developing and introducing new products, our ability to continue to meet operating expenses through current cash flow or additional financings, our ability to obtain additional financing on acceptable terms, the highly competitive market for our products, difficulties in accurately estimating market growth, the consolidation of the information security industry, the impact of changing economic conditions, business conditions in the information security industry, our ability to manage acquisitions effectively, our ability to manage discontinued operations effectively, the impact of market peers and their products, as well as other risks and uncertainties identified in our most recent filings with the SEC. Copies of these filings can be obtained from our Investor Relations department. Financial Contact Michael L. Paxton, VP, CFO 972.301.3658, Media Contact Eric Gore, VP Worldwide Sales 972.301.3644, http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030703/INTRUSIONLOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Intrusion Inc. CONTACT: financial, Michael L. Paxton, VP, CFO, +1-972-301-3658, or , or media, Eric Gore, VP Worldwide Sales, +1-972-301-3644, or , both of Intrusion Inc. Web site: http://www.intrusion.com/

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