ENSURE SHOWCASES NEWEST VERSION OF XYLOC MD
AT 2002 TEPR CONFERENCE

XyLoc MD Again Nominated for Best Healthcare Security Solution

Ann Arbor, Mich., May 7, 2002— Ensure Technologies, the award-winning leader in intelligent digital information security solutions, will showcase its XyLocMD™ 3.0 product at the TEPR Conference in Seattle next week. XyLoc MD was developed specifically for the healthcare industry, providing authorized healthcare workers with convenient, personalized access to hospital information and applications. XyLoc MD, which won the 2001 TEPR Award for Best Healthcare Security Solution and is a finalist for the same award this year, can be seen at the Ensure Booth, #1323, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, May 13-15, 2002.

"At Ensure, we have focused on creating security tools that overcome the biggest barrier of traditional security methods by actually improving user convenience," said George Brostoff, president of Ensure. "XyLoc MD removes the burden of compliance with security policies from the user by allowing healthcare professionals to move freely from workstation to workstation, without the hassles of logging in or out. This frees doctors and nurses to focus on their patients, while helping healthcare organizations comply with their ethical and legal obligations to protect patient privacy at the same time."

XyLoc's 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 MD KeyCard. Administrators have great flexibility in configuring two-factor authentication - including the use of biometrics as one of those authentication options. Administrators can also specify when - and how often - two-factor authentication is required in order to achieve the appropriate balance between security and end user convenience for their organization. Ensure will be demonstrating this functionality in its TEPR Award presentation as well as in its booth at the TEPR Conference.

By providing continuous, convenient user authentication, XyLoc MD 3.0 automatically guards against unauthorized network access full time. At a hospital deploying XyLoc MD, healthcare professionals are recognized based on their proximity to department PCs. Users wear unique XyLoc Keys (worn in conjunction with 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 identified and authenticated a user.

With XyLoc's Single Sign On functionality, users need to wear their XyLoc KeyCard and remember only one password, and all of their applications and records will automatically appear. For maximum convenience, administrators can choose to grant access based solely on possession of the XyLoc KeyCard. In either case, however, as soon as the user walks away from the computer, XyLoc MD secures the machine and protects those applications until the user returns.

In instances where multiple authorized users are in the area, XyLoc MD allows the appropriate person to select his or her name from a list of detected users. 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 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 XyLocMD™ was the winner of the 2001 TEPR Award for Best Healthcare Security Solution, presented at the 2001 Towards an Electronic Patient Record Conference, honoring the most outstanding healthcare solutions providers in the industry in nearly 15 categories. 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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