NetScreen Security Solutions Win Top Honors in Taiwan's Chiao Tung University Benchmark Test

November 5, 2003: NetScreen Technologies, Inc. (Netscreen) announced that two of its integrated firewall/virtual private network products - the NetScreen-5200 system and the NetScreen-5GT appliance - and the NetScreen-IDP 100 intrusion detection and prevention solution received top ratings in one of the largest-scale and most comprehensive third-party benchmark tests conducted by the Network Benchmarking Lab (NBL) of the Industry Technology Research Institute at National Chiao Tung University (ITRI-NCTU) in Taiwan. This is the third year in a row that NetScreen has received top honors from this organization.

In the "2003 Network Security Benchmark Test", a total of 25 products from 16 vendors were evaluated on performance, ease of use, management, interoperability and detection capabilities, among others. According to the test results:

* The NetScreen-5200, received kudos for performance - "the performance of the NetScreen-5200 exceeded that of all products submitted in the carrier category"

* The NetScreen-IDP 100 was awarded "Best Product Performance" and "Best Total Cost of Ownership Product" in the IDS category.

* The NetScreen-5GT was awarded the "Best Product Performance" and "Best Total Cost of Ownership Product" in the SOHO category of firewall/VPN solutions.

"Results from the benchmark test are of special significance to us. They reinforce and demonstrate that NetScreen offers robust solutions for both carriers as well as enterprise and remote users," said David Flynn, vice president of marketing at NetScreen. "NetScreen plans to continue innovating its solutions to provide enterprises and service providers enhanced security solutions that meet today's most demanding requirements."