Ensure To Demonstrate Security Bluetooth Application At Comdex

Market Wire, 20050229

Ensure Technologies, the award-winning leader in intelligent wireless PC security solutions, this week will collaborate with IBM to demonstrate one of the first Bluetooth applications at the Bluetooth Pavilion at COMDEX, Las Vegas Convention Center, IBM Booth #BT-16 and Ensure Booth #BT-23. The demonstration will show Ensure's XyLoc(TM) Bluetooth wireless security and authentication solution securing and protecting access to an IBM ThinkPad(R) notebook with a Bluetooth PC Card from IBM. initiatives are a key trend in mobile computing today, and we will be demonstrating some of the first real Bluetooth applications at COMDEX this week," said Howard Dulany, wireless program manager at IBM's Personal Systems Group. "We're proud of the work we've done with Ensure to provide easy and convenient security using the Bluetooth standard and look forward to further enhancements as Bluetooth progresses."

"We are thrilled to be teaming with IBM to show a real working Bluetooth solution," said George Brostoff, president of Ensure Technologies. "What is particularly significant about this Bluetooth application is that it provides very tangible and needed benefits to users - namely delivering convenient security and personalization to mobile computing devices like the ThinkPad."

IBM is a promoter company and Ensure is an associate member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (www.bluetooth.com), a group working toward a wireless technology specification that provides links between mobile computers, mobile phones and other portable and handheld devices, and connectivity to the Internet. The Bluetooth wireless technology is a small form-factor, low-cost radio solution that is set to revolutionize the personal connectivity market by providing freedom from wired connections.

XyLoc is a robust personalization and security application for Bluetooth wireless devices like IBM's ThinkPad. As more Bluetooth devices come to market, security will become essential to protect them from unauthorized access. Using XyLoc's patented technology, network managers can easily load and manage digital certificates on any Bluetooth PC, phone or PDA, which will add powerful security features to Bluetooth devices and appliances. XyLoc will allow Bluetooth devices to positively recognize and identify authorized users and make Bluetooth phones and PDAs more convenient to use.

XyLoc is a patented, centrally managed, automatic computer security solution that prevents unauthorized access to confidential PC-based information, and simultaneously makes access to network services and applications more convenient for authorized employees. XyLoc's full-time access control technology protects sensitive data when it is most vulnerable - after logon, when the authorized user - for whatever reason - steps away from the PC. XyLoc is proximity-activated and completely "hands-free," requiring no user interaction. By automatically and effortlessly recognizing who is requesting access to a PC, XyLoc simplifies PKI implementations and protects digital certificates stored on PCs increasing the security of e-commerce transactions.

About Ensure Technologies

Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ensure Technologies (www.ensuretech.com) is the leader in intelligent security solutions designed to protect an organization's intellectual property and physical computing assets from internal security breaches - conveniently, automatically and transparently. Ensure's award-winning XyLoc applies the innovative, patented technologies of full-time access control and proximity-based authentication to guard corporate data, and asset tracking to monitor and protect computing hardware throughout the enterprise from desktops to mobile PCs. As an associate member of the Bluetooth SIG, Ensure's XyLoc wireless security technology will allow Bluetooth wireless devices to positively recognize and identify authorized users and make Bluetooth phones, PCs and PDAs more convenient to use.

XyLoc is a trademark of Ensure Technologies, Inc. IBM, ThinkPad and Buetooth PC Card are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. Bluetooth is a trademark owned by Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson, Sweden and licensed to IBM. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.

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