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CloudShield Selected as a Finalist for the 2008 Red Herring North America 100

Award recognizes the 100 'most promising' companies driving the future of technology

San Francisco, Calif. - April 15, 2008

Red Herring today announced that CloudShield Technologies, Inc. has been named a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in North America.

The Red Herring editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout the North American region and identified the top 200 out of more than 800 closely evaluated companies leading the next wave of innovation.

CloudShield Technologies is a provider of service management and security solutions designed for large service providers and national governments. CloudShield's unique offering of hardware, software, operating systems and applications helps organizations inspect, analyze and control all traffic moving across the network. This enables lower costs, secure infrastructure and new revenue streams.

The 100 winning companies will be announced at the Red Herring North America event. The CEOs of the winning startups will present their innovative ideas and technologies to an audience of leading entrepreneurs, financiers and corporate strategists at the event in San Jose, Calif., on May 12-14 at the Fairmont Hotel. This year's Red Herring 100 North America event marks the 11th anniversary of the Red Herring 100 Awards. In celebration, the event will feature keynote addresses from legendary VC investors and CEOs of leading Internet, information and communications companies. Register online at: http://herringevents.com/northamerica08/index.html.

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Executive quote

"The Red Herring 100 list always calls out companies that are visionaries within their markets. Being recognized as a finalist for the Red Herring 100 this year is great validation of our strategy," said Matt Jones, CloudShield's CEO. "Through our technology, service providers and federal agencies have the ability to embrace this new era of IP convergence by delivering and managing a wide range of services in line with customer demand."

About the company

About Red Herring

Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.

About CloudShield

CloudShield is a provider of multi-gigabit, multi-function, programmable, deep packet inspection platforms targeted at large network operators. The company's unique capabilities allow content inspection, service management and security applications to perform at true gigabit speeds on even small packet sizes and enable entirely new classes of applications and revenue generating services. Through its application partners, CloudShield has helped deliver solutions to carriers in North America, Europe and Asia as well as several important federal government customers. More information about CloudShield can be found at http://www.cloudshield.com/.

Contact details

Noah Dye
LEWIS PR for CloudShield
Phone: 408-573-3662
Email: cloudshield@lewispr.com

Anam Alpenia
Red Herring, Inc.
Phone: 650-428-2900
Email: aalpenia@redherring.com


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