ENSURE WINS 2002 TEPR AWARD FOR BEST HEALTHCARE SECURITY SOLUTION

Ensure's XyLoc Wins Honor for Second Straight Year

Ann Arbor, Mich., May 20, 2002— Ensure Technologies, the leader in intelligent digital information security solutions, today announced that for the second straight year its XyLoc™ security solution was named the Best Healthcare Security Solution at TEPR 2002 Conference and Exhibition in Seattle last week. XyLoc, which provides continuous authorization and convenient security for healthcare workers, won the same award at last year's conference in Boston. TEPR Awards annually honor the most outstanding healthcare solutions providers in the industry.

"We are very pleased to once again be honored with this award," said George Brostoff, president of Ensure. "Healthcare organizations have both a legal and ethical obligation to protect the confidentiality and privacy of patient information and of course the HIPAA regulations are aimed at this. Healthcare providers need to determine the best way to secure patient information. XyLoc's convenient security allows healthcare organizations to protect patient records without reducing the quality of patient care."

By providing continuous, convenient user authentication, XyLoc automatically guards against unauthorized network access full time. At a hospital deploying XyLoc, healthcare professionals are recognized based on their proximity to department PCs. Users wear unique XyLoc Keys (that can double as their hospital ID badge) that communicate securely with proximity detection hardware and sophisticated software residing on each workstation. A computer is unlocked only after XyLoc has positively identified and authenticated a user.

With XyLoc, authentication can be as easy as walking up to the computer, or as robust as requiring the user to input their name and password in addition to possessing the XyLoc Key. With XyLoc's Single Sign On functionality, users need remember only one password, and all of their applications and records will automatically appear. However, as soon as the user walks away from the computer, XyLoc secures the machine and the applications until the user returns or another authorized user approaches.

In instances where multiple authorized users are in the area of the PC, XyLoc allows the appropriate person to select his or her name from a list of detected users. XyLoc's Secured Kiosks allow multiple users to share a single network account, which results in fast yet secure access to the network and applications. XyLoc's Roaming System Access allows a healthcare practitioner to have her applications and records follow her from PC to PC as she does her rounds. The end result is a security solution that protects patient records without reducing the quality of patient care.

About The Medical Records Institute

MRI (www.medrecinst.com) is committed to promoting the understanding and development of electronic health care, including the electronic health record. Since 1983, MRI has pursued this mission on a national and international basis by sponsoring surveys, addressing standards issues and providing educational programming, including TEPR (www.tepr.com), one of the largest health information technology conferences and exhibitions in the world, designed to share the knowledge, experience, and solutions of healthcare informatics leaders and vendors.

About Ensure Technologies

Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ensure Technologies (www.ensuretech.com) is the leader in intelligent digital information security solutions designed to protect an organization's intellectual property and physical computing assets from internal security breaches - conveniently, automatically and transparently. Ensure's XyLoc™ was the winner of the 2001 and 2002 TEPR Award for Best Healthcare Security Solution, honoring the most outstanding healthcare solutions providers in the industry. Ensure's XyLoc products apply 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. XyLoc delivers security with convenience and personalization at leading organizations in healthcare, financial services, government, manufacturing, and law throughout the world.

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