Compuware e-readiness Solution Helps Companies Understand and Protect Against Cyber Attacks

Exclusive Combination of QACenter and EcoSYSTEMS Provides Insight Into Peak Processing Conditions

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- February 11, 2000 -- Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) e-readiness solution helps businesses proactively guard against denial of service and other, more damaging cyber attacks, the company announced today. Recent attacks, such as those that affected major e-commerce sites earlier in the week, have shown that any web site is vulnerable--regardless of size.

By offering more than just online load testing, Compuware is able to provide unique value to companies seeking to manage high-volume and unexpected load situations. As featured by CNN Today, on Thursday, February 10, 2000, Compuware's e-readiness solution offers an early warning system for web sites that may experience hostile activity. The company's QACenter and EcoSYSTEMS e-commerce products help organizations take preventive measures before a crippling event overloads their web site.

Companies use Compuware's solution to simulate any type of system load, including denial of service attacks. Compuware e-readiness products load the web site infrastructure while remaining close to the server under test, avoiding excessive Internet traffic that could potentially impact other sites. Using this approach, companies ramp up their load tests under controlled conditions and achieve repeatable test results.

Once processing thresholds are defined, Compuware e-readiness products monitor the production web application, including all related servers (application, database, web), databases, networks, firewalls and other corporate applications that are connected with the site. As traffic volume approaches peak processing levels, e-readiness products proactively alert companies to take corrective action.

"The very public nature of the Internet means that every company with a web site is vulnerable to an attack," said Doug Turner, General Manager, Compuware QACenter. "Companies that depend on the Internet as an important distribution channel need to know more than just at what point their sites will be overloaded. Taking testing to the next logical step involves understanding why the site overloads under certain conditions and what actions to take to fix it. Our e-readiness solution helps companies find their vulnerabilities and proactively monitor them to minimize damage."

About QACenter

Compuware's QACenter offers one of the best solutions in automated testing technology to help organizations meet application quality and performance requirements. For any organization needing to deploy reliable, scalable, e-commerce and enterprise applications, QACenter helps achieve consistent, dependable application performance and quality. Thousands of traditional and dot.com companies rely on QACenter to load-test their applications; understand how those applications will perform in production; plan their testing process; verify the functionality of their applications; validate data and test results; and manage the resolution of defects that are uncovered during the testing process. For Internet, customer-developed, or packaged applications (ERP, CRM, B2B), QACenter provides superior testing value for managers, developers and testers.

Compuware Corporation

With trailing 12-month revenues of more than $2 billion, Compuware is a world leader in the practical implementation of enterprise and e-commerce solutions. Compuware productivity solutions help 14,000 of the world's largest corporations more efficiently maintain and enhance their most critical business applications. Providing immediate and measurable return on information technology investments, Compuware products and services improve quality, lower costs and increase the speed at which systems can be developed, implemented and supported. Compuware employs more than 15,000 information technology professionals worldwide. For more information about Compuware, please contact the corporate offices at 800-521-9353. You may also visit Compuware on the World Wide Web at www.compuware.com.