Business Services Industry

Forum Systems to Secure Strategic Web Services Systems for Technology Leader

Business Wire, Oct 5, 2004

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. & SALT LAKE CITY -- Forum Systems, a leading provider of trust management and threat protection Web Services security solutions, announced today that it has been selected to secure strategic Web Services applications for Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT). Forum Sentry Web Services Security Gateway and Forum XWall Web Services Firewall will help enable and protect Motorola's service oriented architecture (SOA).

"Motorola is a true Web services visionary and Forum is excited to provide a breadth of strategic Web services security solutions that will enable Motorola to accelerate their use of Web Services for mission critical applications," said Wes Swenson, president and CEO of Forum Systems. "Adding Motorola to our F1000 customer portfolio further solidifies Forum products as world-class solutions."

"The Forum suite will help Motorola deploy a new breed of high-value, trusted business applications by meeting our current and future Web services security requirements of data privacy and integrity, risk management, and Web services authorization," said Bill Boni, chief information security officer for Motorola.

Forum Meets Advanced Web Services Security Requirements

Forum System's agent-based "hub and spoke" architecture will help support the global fulfillment of Motorola Web services to its small, medium and large enterprise customers and business partners through a service oriented architecture. Motorola is expected to deploy Forum Sentry hardware devices as centralized "hubs" to manage, distribute and speed security policy enforcement and decision-making. Forum Sentry software will also be deployed as "agents" to be controlled by Forum Sentry hubs, automatically receiving update-to-date security policy changes which will guarantee compliance to Motorola Web services security regulations.

Motorola's initial security requirements include:

--Support for WS Security and Standards

--Secure WSDL Business API Provisioning

--Integration with Amberpoint and Netegrity

--Hardened Key Management through nCipher chip set

--Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Enforcement

--Speed and Performance

About Motorola

Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) is a global leader in wireless, broadband and automotive communications technologies that help make life smarter, safer, simpler, synchronized and fun. Sales in 2003 were US $27.1 billion. Motorola creates innovative technological solutions that benefit people at home, at work and on the move. The company also is a progressive corporate citizen dedicated to operating ethically, protecting the environment and supporting the communities in which it does business. For more information: www.motorola.com.

About Forum Systems

Forum Systems, Inc. is the leader in Web services security with a comprehensive suite of Trust Management and Threat Protection solutions for the Automated Web. Forum Systems flexible hardware, software and embedded products actively protect Web services from the network edge to the application server. Forum Systems products are winners of Network Computing Magazine's Well-Connected 2004 Award and Product of the Year 2004 Award, Network Computing Magazine's Editor's Choice 2003 Award, Network Magazine's Product of the Year 2003 Award and DEMO 2004 Invitation. Forum Systems, founded in 2001, is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT. For more information contact 801-313-4400 or http://www.forumsys.com/.> Forum Presidio, Forum Sentry and Forum XWall are trademarks of Forum Systems, Inc. All product and service names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.