Frost & Sullivan Awards Imprivata 2008 Access Control Product of the Year

Business Wire, April 1, 2008

Excellence in New Product Development, Competitive Advantages over Existing Products and a Well-Executed Sales and Marketing Strategy Noted as Imprivata's Strengths

LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Imprivata([R]), Inc., the converged identity and access management appliance company, today announced that the Imprivata OneSign([R]) Platform has been awarded the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Product of the Year Award in the Access Control domain. Imprivata's OneSign platform offers an affordable way to achieve compliance while solving password management problems, reducing IT help desk costs and improving user productivity and security.

The Frost & Sullivan Award for Product of the Year is presented each year to the company that has demonstrated excellence in new product development. The recipient company is typically recognized for launching a broad line of emerging products and technologies, with the degree of innovation, competitive advantage, marketplace acceptance and overall customer satisfaction playing major roles in the decision process. For more information of Frost & Sullivan's Awards program, please see http://www.awards.frost.com.

"When Imprivata was founded in 2001, our mission was to solve a difficult problem in a simple and unique way, one that fully leveraged existing channels for distribution. Frost & Sullivan's acknowledgement that the organization has achieved this goal is extremely satisfying for our entire team," said Omar Hussain, president and CEO of Imprivata, Inc. "We are honored to be recognized for our efforts in bringing an innovative authentication and access management platform to the public."

The Imprivata OneSign platform was recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its innovative appliance-based solution and its expanding base of customers and strategic partners. Frost & Sullivan noted that Imprivata OneSign is affordable, easy to integrate and offers support for two factor authentication options such as biometrics, smart cards and tokens.

Among the advantages Frost & Sullivan cites are:

* Appliance-based packaging that enables easy integration into target systems by reducing the costs associated with modifying or re-coding existing infrastructure;

* Distributed architecture that can scale to handle environments, with virtually unlimited users and greater disaster recovery and business continuity functionality; and

* The flexibility to implement various levels of identity management--Single Sign-On, Authentication Management or Physical/Logical Security Convergence--to best fit a customer's individual needs.

"Deploying security systems across an enterprise is typically an expensive and arduous task," added Imran F. Khan, Research Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "Imprivata's OneSign platform brings to the marketplace an inexpensive, scalable and convenient solution that offers different levels of customization. We're pleased to present Imprivata with the 2008 North American Access Control Product of the Year Award."

A full Frost & Sullivan write-up on Imprivata OneSign, issued in conjunction with this Award, can be found at Imprivata.com.

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About Imprivata

Imprivata is the converged Identity and Access Management (IAM) appliance company. Its OneSign platform helps organizations safeguard enterprise information assets by enabling secure employee access to networks and applications--improving user productivity and convenience, while reducing the time, risk and cost of complying with data privacy and protection regulations. OneSign has received top ratings in product reviews throughout the industry and has been awarded numerous accolades from leading publications including Information Security, InfoWorld and SC Magazine. Headquartered in Lexington, Mass., Imprivata is one of the fastest growing IAM companies with more than 500 customers and 200 partners around the world.

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