London, UK- Jan. 12, 2004 - Netilla© Networks, Inc., a leading provider of SSL VPN and secure application access management solutions has chosen Wick Hill to be their new European distributor, to support them in their aggressive drive to expand the secure remote access market across Europe.

Wick Hill will give partners across Europe a wider choice of distributors from whom they can source their products. Customers will also benefit from the increased network that Netilla are building up in Europe by offering a local network of sound and experienced partners who can provide them with the best quality of service.

Netilla chose Wick Hill because of their excellent reputation for service and support to the channel and their market strength in the SME sector. Wick Hill are a leading international value added distributor specializing in secure infrastructure solutions for e-business as well as web access and web management products.

"What really sets Netilla apart from our competitors is our patent-pending dynaTRUST policy enforcement operating system, which lets customers establish trust-based adaptive access for all authorized enterprise users - remote, onsite or trusted partner and it's this unique element that we feel will be of great interest to the channel and their customers." Said Jan Vekemans European Managing Director for Netilla Networks. "We are therefore very confident that the combination of our market leading products and Wick Hill's extensive experience and reputation in the security sector will enable us to provide our partners with a winning formula."

Ian Kilpatrick - Managing Director of Wick Hill said "We spent sometime evaluating SSL VPN solutions against a rigorous technical and commercial criteria and Netilla stood head and shoulders above the competition. Netilla complements other security technologies in our portfolio and enables us to offer the best-of-breed SSL VPN solution to our channel partners."

Netilla already has a strong European presence, which spans a range of vertical markets including government, manufacturing and telecom. The Netherlands' Ministry of Transportation, for example, uses Netilla's browser-based remote access solution to allow its workers and contractors around the world to access key applications securely via standard Web browsers. In the U.K., Reed Exhibitions, a division of Reed Elsevier and the world's largest trade show organizer, uses Netilla to let its third-party suppliers gain secure access to its customized applications without having to install software on remote PCs.

Netilla has an extensive partner base in the UK and plan to expand across Europe using a two-tier channel program which will be announced this month.