Cobion Shows Web Usage with Live Graphical Reports

Boston, MA – October 23, 2003 – Cobion (www.cobion.com ), a provider of content security products including Web URL filtering and anti-spam, today launched OrangeReporter 1.0, a reporting tool that make it easy for administrators to access Internet usage metrics, employee behavior and other Web surfing data. Using simple point-and-click access, OrangeReporter is freely available and works in conjunction with Cobion’s existing OrangeBox Web filtering product for enterprise-wide Internet content security.

Designed for IT managers as well as for human resource professionals, OrangeReporter provides companies with specific employee Internet usage trends and highlights risks without requiring an IT administrator to run separate log reports. Managers can instantaneously access key employee and departmental Internet usage data to uncover wasteful or time-consuming Web surfing.

The comprehensive nature of OrangeReporter’s real-time and interactive custom reporting is unique. Compliance with corporate Internet usage policies can be monitored easily based on the most up-to-the-minute metrics. OrangeReporter enables IT administrators to fine-tune format and timing with customizable filtering and scheduling.

Report examples include:
* Visited sites by category – daily, weekly, monthly or in user-defined intervals;
* Internet usage summaries and trends by department;
* Individual employee online activity by time of day;
* Top ten most-blocked Web sites.

OrangeReporter is not limited to its 110 pre-defined reports, which means users can drill down through data to find more information about specific web usage patterns. Access to OrangeReporter is password protected, ensuring employee privacy and restricting reports distribution to only those with authority to view them. In addition, reports can be anonymized to assess organizational behavior without revealing individuals. Reports can be exported in ten formats including PDF, HTML, XML, Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel.

OrangeReporter is available immediately at no additional cost to customers with Cobion OrangeBox Web 2.0 Enterprise, and is also available to all prospective customers as a standard part of the Cobion web filtering solution.

Screenshots: Screenshots of the OrangeReporter 1.0 can be downloaded at www.cobion.de/news/pr/presskit/

About Cobion
Founded in 1997, Cobion’s mission is to protect organizations from unwanted or non-business related content, including e-mails, spam and file attachments. All unwanted or illegal content is kept outside, while confidential information is kept inside the company. Cobion develops the OrangeBox Web (Web filter), OrangeBox Mail

(e-mail and spam filter) and OrangeBox LAN (intranet filter) security products and distributes to customers worldwide to facilitate more productive Internet usage, reduced liability, and intellectual property protection. Cobion is venture-funded with $5.9 million by Wellington Partners Venture Capital GmbH, Munich and Sofinnova Ventures Inc., Paris. With customers such as adidas, Bayer, Daimler-Chrysler, Dow Chemical, IBM, VeriSign and PricewaterhouseCooper, Cobion’s OrangeBox suite of security products are sold through a worldwide network of channel partners. Cobion is headquartered in Germany and Boston, Mass. with subsidiaries in London, UK and Shanghai, China. Please visit <>.