FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Blue Lance's LT Auditor+ Added to Novell Consulting's Arsenal of Network Management and Security Tools

Houston,TX - November 15, 1999 - Blue Lance, Inc. today announced the signing of a strategic licensing agreement with Novell Consulting that enables Novell consultants to provide greater network monitoring and asset protection capabilities to their clients through the use of Blue Lance's LT Auditor+ software. The agreement establishes LT Auditor+ as Novell Consulting's preferred tool for monitoring and managing NDS activity and other network events. LT Auditor+ is typically used to help protect computer-managed assets against theft, tampering and unauthorized access by monitoring all activities throughout the network and providing a secure audit trail and real-time alerts if a security breach is detected. Network managers also use it to monitor and document system changes. In this case, Novell consultants can use LT Auditor+ to document the activities and system changes they make while working on their clients' networks. "LT Auditor+ is a powerful tool that has been successfully used by companies worldwide to monitor their networks and secure their assets from internal intrusion," said Blue Lance CEO Umesh Verma. "Novell's decision to use LT Auditor+ as a key component of its consulting practice validates Blue Lance's position as the leader in network monitoring tools." Alex Salehi, worldwide vice president of Novell Consulting, said, "Novell is pleased to be able to enhance our consultants service engagement offerings. The addition of LT Auditor+ gives our consultants a significant asset management tool to provide our clients with one of the best monitoring and reporting technologies available." Blue Lance, Inc. is the leader in the development of real-time monitoring and secure audit trail technology for Novell/NT networks. Its products are now used to secure the assets of governments and global energy, insurance, and banking institutions, including six of the twelve US Federal Reserve banks. Founded in 1985, Houston-based Blue Lance pioneered the development of audit trail technology for Novell and NT networks along with a number of firsts in network audit security, including real-time monitoring, automated filtering of data and totally secure consolidation of system logs. The company's flagship product, LT Auditor+, is widely recognized as the industry's defacto standard for Novell NetWare system monitoring and audit security. For more information on Blue Lance or LT Auditor+, see www.bluelance.com .

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