RICHARDSON, Texas, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Intrusion Inc. announced today the successful deployment of Compliance Commander(TM) at the University of Tennessee Medical Center for protecting against patient data leaks onto public networks. The high costs associated with patient data breaches, and the potential loss of patient confidence, are key drivers for adoption of this new technology. "The security of our patient data is part of UT Medical Center's mission statement," said Gary Haney, Assistant Director of Information Services & HIPAA Security Officer at UT Medical Center. "We needed a network appliance to address the identified risk of patient or employee data leaking onto public networks. Desktop agents were not suitable for our organization because of cost and management issues." Compliance Commander(TM) uses exact data matching against the medical information system (MIS) and corporate financial databases to accurately detect and block when sensitive patient or employee data attempts to leave the network unprotected. Accurate data matching is critical for minimizing false alerts that can consume management time and add significantly to cost of ownership. "UT Medical Center has had Compliance Commander(TM) deployed for three months and we have been extremely pleased with our result thus far," added Mr. Haney. Sword & Shield of Knoxville, Tennessee is Intrusion's reseller partner in the region and provides value-added services for the healthcare sector. "The University of Tennessee Medical Center is one of the most respected medical institutions in the state," said Will Henderson, CEO of Sword and Shield. "They quickly realized the value of Compliance Commander(TM) for taking a proactive approach to protecting patient data. We have a number of Compliance Commander risk assessments in place at other healthcare institutions, and we are seeing an increasing rate of adoption for this solution." Intrusion allows qualified healthcare organizations to see Compliance Commander(TM) in action as part of a no-charge risk assessment. "Because this technology is data centric -- the appliance looks at where and how actual patient data is flowing on the network -- our target customers often don't understand that they have security issues until they have Compliance Commander(TM) in place," explained Ward Paxton, CEO of Intrusion Inc. "Firewalls and intrusion prevention systems are oblivious to actual data flows, often over legitimate business network communications, and they simply cannot address the numerous classes of patient data leak issues that we commonly see with our Compliance Commander(TM) data leak prevention solution." About The University of Tennessee Medical Center The University of Tennessee Medical Center is a 581-bed, not-for-profit academic medical center, which serves as a referral center for Eastern Tennessee, Southeast Kentucky and Western North Carolina. The Medical Center, the region's only Level I Trauma Center, is one of the largest employers in Knoxville. For more information about the University of Tennessee Medical Center, visit online at http://www.utmedicalcenter.org/. About Sword and Shield Sword & Shield Enterprise Security, Inc. is a network security consulting company excelling in security solutions to meet the most demanding security requirements of IT environments. Sword & Shield provides consulting to Fortune 1000 companies in risk management, security policy, security strategies for compliance, business continuity, network security, managed services, product integration, incident response management, and technical support. Sword & Shield customers come from all industries such as financial/banking, healthcare, federal government (GSA Schedule 70 and SEWP IV), national labs, law enforcement, telecommunications, hospitality, utilities and manufacturing. Their consultants work with government and commercial customers in the U.S. and abroad. Hardware and software products and solutions are offered on the SecureHQ website: http://www.securehq.com/ and security services are shown on: http://www.sses.net/. Sword & Shield is "Your Partner for a Secure Future". In 2006 and 2007 Sword & Shield has received numerous awards for strategy and growth, such as being an Inc.500 company and a CRN fast growth 100 company in both years. In 2007 they are #6 on the Washington Technology Fast 50 list and are a 2007 Government Computer News Industry Honoree. About Intrusion Inc. Intrusion Inc. is a leading provider of customer and patient data protection products, as well as network intrusion prevention and detection systems. Intrusion's product families include: Compliance Commander. for customer data protection, TraceCop(TM) identification and location service, and Intrusion SecureNet(TM) for network intrusion prevention and detection. Intrusion's products help protect critical information assets by quickly detecting, protecting, analyzing and reporting attacks or misuse of classified, private and regulated information for government and enterprise networks. For more information about the Compliance Commander(TM) risk assessment, or other solutions, please call 1-888-637-7770 or visit http://www.intrusion.com/. Financial Contact Michael L. Paxton, VP, CFO 972.301.3658, Media Contact Jay Barbour CISSP, VP Marketing 972.664.8107, 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 Media, Jay Barbour CISSP, VP Marketing, +1-972-664-8107, , both of Intrusion Inc. 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