Mocana Appoints Matt Elson as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Addition Accelerates Mocana’s Expansion Globally

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – September 15, 2008 – Mocana, a software company that delivers comprehensive embedded security solutions for non-PC devices attached to the network, today announced it has named Matt Elson as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. With more than 18 years of sales experience, Elson is charged with expanding Mocana’s global presence, while accelerating its sales growth and business development for device security.

Mr. Elson comes to Mocana from Cenzic, Inc., a provider of application security vulnerability assessment and risk management solutions, where he was the Vice President of sales and services. While there, he built the company’s enterprise sales team, re-engineered and automated its sales processes, and tripled the company’s quarterly bookings from prior quarters.

“Matt has an exemplary background building and leading sales teams that deliver against business objectives,” said Adrian Turner, CEO of Mocana. “We are delighted to have someone with Matt’s knowledge and experience join our management team. His reputation as a creative thinker and experience in the global market will play an instrumental role in the expansion of Mocana’s sales force and overall mission moving forward.”

| In addition to Cenzic, Mr. Elson brings to Mocana an extensive track record leading global sales initiatives and driving revenue for leading enterprise IT companies including Borland Software Corporation, i2 Technologies, WebGain Inc., and Oasis Technology. Throughout his career, Elson has successfully built global sales teams that consistently exceed revenue goals resulting in company acquisitions or increased market valuations. Elson began his career in enterprise software by managing the financial services vertical for BEA Systems during its early stages of venture capital funding, a vertical which grew to more than $200M for the $1 billion enterprise software company during his tenure. Further, Mr. Elson has

“Mocana has demonstrated award winning technology in the nascent market of embedded security,” Elson said. “I look forward to applying my background and skill set to this space, and propelling adoption of Mocana’s security solutions among device manufactures and application develpors.”

Mocana offers more than 18 different products for over 100 different OS/CPU combinations in a unified architecture: the Device Security Framework (DSF). The DSF offers a comprehensive approach to securing and managing connected devices, from routers, switches and printers, to industrial automation and military equipment, to faxes, smartphones and DVRs. The components of the Device Security Framework include popular security protocol implementations like NanoSSL and NanoSSH, which provide endpoint authentication and encrypted communications to protect against eavesdropping, malware, message forgery and interference.

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About Mocana
Mocana provides management solutions and embedded security tools for consumer electronics manufacturers, datacom companies, telecom carriers, industrial automation applications and the enterprise. Mocana's industry-leading infrastructure software solutions ensure that wired and wireless devices, networks and their services all scale securely. The company sells a portfolio of 18 product offerings and claims more than 90 major customers, including Cisco, Freescale, Philips, Dell, Nortel Networks, Harris, Honeywell, Symbol, Net.com and Radvision, among others. Mocana was founded in 2002, is privately held, and headquartered in San Francisco. The company was recently named one of Red Herring's "Top 100 Privately-Held Companies in North America" for 2008 and also won Frost & Sullivan’s Technology Innovation of the Year award. For more information, visit www.mocana.com.

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