Emeryville, Calif., November 14, 2005 —BigFix, a leading provider of enterprise security configuration management solutions, has appointed Rhonda Hocker, CIO of BEA Systems, to its board of directors. A proven IT executive with more than 20 years of management and software industry experience, Hocker brings to the BigFix board an extensive background overseeing innovative technology initiatives and working with leading-edge companies to identify IT trends and best practices.

At BEA, Hocker provides strategic and functional direction for all aspects of the company’s global IT environment, including development and deployment of business applications, computing operations, data and voice communications, and customer service. Since joining BEA, she has championed innovative technology solutions that rapidly deliver business capabilities to the enterprise, while demonstrating a clear ROI for IT initiatives.

“BigFix delivers solutions that are designed to be easy to deploy and create immediate value throughout the enterprise,” said Hocker. “This combined with its nearly 400 customers worldwide and reputation for superior customer service position BigFix for leadership in the fast growing market for security configuration management solutions. I am excited to join BigFix’s board of directors to help build on its strong customer and technology momentum.”

“BigFix enthusiastically welcomes Rhonda Hocker to our board of directors. Her knowledge about the priorities and challenges facing today’s IT department will be a tremendous asset to the company,” said Dave Robbins, president and CEO of BigFix. “In addition to her experience evaluating, developing and deploying a range of technology solutions and understanding of the overall IT landscape, she can provide an insider’s view into the changing requirements of IT organizations and help us continue to develop customer-driven solutions that meet the evolving security, configuration and compliance needs of our customers.”

The BigFix Solution
BigFix provides scalable, easy-to-use security configuration management solutions for global enterprises, managed service providers and public sector organizations using information technology to optimize regulatory compliance, corporate governance, business agility, and operations continuity. With customer implementations on thousands to tens-of-thousands of endpoint desktop and mobile PCs, workstations and servers managing millions of changes across distributed IT infrastructures and networks, BigFix solutions help improve business processes, enhance security, and deliver more reliable IT services, while reducing costs and administrative overheads.

About BigFix, Inc.
BigFix enables organizations to better manage their global IT infrastructures with solutions to discover, analyze, change and maintain security and software configurations faster and more accurately, resulting in improved processes, greater visibility, better security and more reliable services while reducing costs. For more information, visit http://www.bigfix.com.