MFS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT EXTENDS COMMITMENT TO OUNCE LABS

Proven Value and New Features of Ounce 4 Result in Expanded Customer Partnership

Waltham, MA, December 14, 2006 – Ounce Labs, the leader in software security assurance, today announced an extension and a broadening of their customer partnership with MFS Investment Management. After evaluating the powerful features offered by Ounce’s latest release, Ounce 4, MFS extended their use of Ounce Labs’ source code vulnerability analysis technology while adding additional analysis power to the installation.

MFS, which manages over $175 billion in assets worldwide, will use Ounce to verify that the internally developed MFS applications adhere to enterprise security policies.  Their additional purchase includes integrating Ounce into their overall disaster recovery procedures, to ensure rapid software vulnerability analysis and remediation is always available to MFS security experts.

”MFS has long made application security a priority to protect the integrity and privacy of our customers data,” said Stuart Lin, Security Architect at MFS. “Ounce 4’s ability to isolate confirmed vulnerabilities and analyze for a wide range of coding and design issues makes it an invaluable tool for both our security and development teams.”

“We maximize the value of an Ounce investment for our customers with a combination of superior support and ongoing product innovation,” observed Hugh Scandrett, CEO of Ounce Labs. “MFS is another example of an Ounce enterprise customer taking the lead in their industry on the issue of application security, and expanding that commitment over time.”

About Ounce Labs, Inc.
Ounce Labs™, the leader in software security assurance, delivers products that enable customers to manage software risk in applications across the enterprise, traceable down to individual lines of code. The Ounce solution features patents-pending source code analysis technology, which scans source code to pinpoint programming errors, design flaws, and policy violations. Ounce offers the most accurate and complete software vulnerability results, the fastest time-to-results, the only complete application portfolio management, and the greatest deployment flexibility. Customers using the Ounce software security solution include leading organizations in financial services, telecommunications, software development, government, and other industries focused on protecting data, reducing software vulnerabilities, and complying with industry regulations. Ounce Labs is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with regional offices throughout the U.S. For more information, please visit www.ouncelabs.com.

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Jake Messier
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