CRYPTOCard's Innovative "It Takes More Than Technology" Reseller Workshop Explains That Technology Alone Cannot Solve Real Business Security Issues

Business Wire, May 24, 2007

Innovative Workshop Explains that Resellers Must Understand Business Issues in Order to Meet Network Security Requirements and Thus Increase Revenues

LONDON & OTTAWA -- CRYPTOCard (www.cryptocard.com), the leading authentication technology developer for multi-vendor computer environments, is providing an innovative, fully-interactive "It Takes More Than Technology" workshop for U.K. resellers at the Canadian Embassy in London on June 6, 2007. During the workshop Jason Hart, CEO, CRYPTOCard Europe, and a former ethical hacker will provide attendees with thought-provoking real-world examples of actual security issues facing today's businesses and explain why these issues cannot be solved with technology alone.

"Unless organizations understand the nature of the threat to their systems, it is simply impossible to counteract them," said Jason Hart, CEO, CRYPTOCard Europe, and a former ethical hacker. "Security is only as good as the people using it, and so CRYPTOCard's goal is to help resellers and organizations improve their knowledge of how to set up and use technology to create a security solution that will provide a significant barrier to any unauthorized users trying to infiltrate a network," Hart continued. "This innovative real-world workshop will provide VARs with the knowledge required to protect their clients' networks from today's sophisticated hacker."

Business security topics covered will include best practices for securing SSL VPNs, how to use simple password management to improve compliance and auditability, and password management solutions can reduce support costs and increase user effectiveness. The workshop will also provide a high-level view of today's security market and explain how it will change over the next 3-to-5 years, as well as a detailed review of the security reseller market, including education on how to improve margins, increase reseller pipelines, and reduce sales cycles.

This workshop forms a core to CRYPTOCard's announcement earlier this year that it is increasing its business development focus and also follows recent media coverage of CRYPTOCard's roll out of a global initiative to help resellers get more out of the growing two-factor authentication market.

Developed for real-world networks - where Linux and Mac workstations often live in a mixed Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) Windows domain, with Windows clients and Apache or IIS Web servers - CRYPTOCard's event-based two-factor authentication tokens make it simple and cost effective to replace weak static passwords with a password that is randomly generated for every logon attempt. One-time passwords cannot be reused by hackers, and eliminate both the help-desk costs associated with resetting forgotten passwords and the security risk resulting from users writing them down.

About CRYPTOCard, Inc.

With offices in Canada and the U.K., CRYPTOCard is a leader and innovator in the Network Authentication Industry. Its multi-awarded two-factor authentication options include both a server-based or 'product' solution (CRYPTO-Shield), a Managed Authentication Service (CRYPTO-MAS), and a completely-adaptable, do-it-yourself developer's tool (AuthEngine), which makes it simple to embed CRYPTOCard's technology into any custom application or environment. The combination allows organizations of any size and means to adopt a strong authentication policy. CRYPTOCard is unique in the industry in its commitment to ensuring its products/services work with any common network architecture including OS compatibility (Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X), web-server flexibility (IIS, Apache), and database options (Active Directory, LDAP, Open Directory, etc). Add to that the outstanding 'out-of-the-box' interoperability with many top industry network solutions including Citrix (Nasdaq:CTXS), Checkpoint (Nasdaq:CHKP), and Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO), and you begin to see how CRYPTOCard has grown since its origin in 1989 to become a thriving enterprise doing business in more than 70 countries. For more information on CRYPTOCard, please visit www.cryptocard.com.

CRYPTOCard, CRYPTO-Server, CRYPTO-Admin, CRYPTO-Deploy, CRYPTO-Logon, CRYPTO-VPN, AuthEngine and CRYPTO-Web are trademarks of CRYPTOCard, Inc. Other products mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.