8e6 Technologies Announces Special Pricing Incentives for Customers in the Education Market

Special discounts available to both new and current 8e6 Education customers

Orange, CA, March 9, 2005– 8e6 Technologies, a leading supplier of Internet Filtering and Reporting Appliances, today announced a new pricing program that offers special discounts to customers in the K-12 Education market.

Under the terms of the program, 8e6 customers who purchase or renew filtering subscriptions before July 1, 2005 will receive a special discount of up to 40% off list price. This discount applies to both the hardware purchase (if required) and the filtering subscription. Customers can realize even more discounts through multi-year contracts.

"8e6 Technologies has built a strong base of loyal customers in the education market," said Eric Lundbohm, Vice President of Marketing at 8e6. "In many cases, these customers have significant budget issues and are forced to consider lower cost and lower quality Internet Filtering vendors. We want to reward their loyalty by making it very affordable to stay with one of the industry leaders."

Education customers have very specific and important needs in the filtering area. The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) signed into law in December of 2000 requires that all schools receiving federal “eRate” Funds implement a filtering technology to protect students from objectionable content on the Internet.

8e6 is one of the few remaining filtering vendors that remain attentive to the education market. Earlier this year, 8e6 began shipment of a new feature set designed specifically for education clients. Some of these industry-leading features include:

• Real-Time Probe; allows teachers to assign probes to monitor specific student/computer Internet activities in real time.
• “X-Strike” Blocking; cancels a student’s Internet access after multiple attempts to view inappropriate blocked sites.
• Google SafeSearch; Blocks access to inappropriate content within the Google search engine by forcing the Google SafeSearch mode ‘on’ for all searches, including images.
• Improved 8e6 Library; added Education Cheating, and Tobacco categories.

Our company has long been very focused on meeting the Internet Filtering needs of our schools,” said Paul Myer, 8e6’s President and COO. “We recognize the budget pressures these customers are under and at 8e6, we’re doing our best to help.”

The education pricing promotion begins immediately and runs through the end of the second quarter. The new features began shipment in February and are available to all of 8e6’s Filtering customers.

About 8e6 Technologies
8e6 Technologies is a privately held software and hardware developer, specializing in Internet filtering solutions for thousands of businesses, ISPs and schools throughout the world. Located in Orange, California, the company assists clients in managing the impact of the Internet on employee productivity, legal liability and abuse of network resources, through flexible, accurate and high speed filtering of Internet content. For more information, visit: www.8e6.com.

Contact for media and analysts:
Eric Lundbohm
8e6 Technologies
Phone: 714-282-6111 ext. 161
e-mail address: elundbohm@8e6.com