ENSURE TO SHOWCASE IBM BLUETOOTH THINKPAD WITH XYLOC SECURITY APPLICATION AT CEBIT

Ensure's XyLoc Bluetooth Wireless Security to Automatically and Easily Secure IBM's ThinkPad Notebook Computer

CeBIT, Hannover, Germany, March 20, 2001— Ensure Technologies, the award-winning leader in intelligent wireless PC security solutions, this week will collaborate with IBM to showcase and demonstrate one of the first Bluetooth applications at Ensure's stand in the Bluetooth Exchange Pavilion at CeBIT, Hannover, Germany, March 22-28, 2001, Bluetooth Pavilion, Hall 1, Stand 5d 4, and in IBM's booth in Hall 1, Stand 4g 2. The companies will highlight Ensure's XyLoc™ Bluetooth wireless security and authentication solution securing and protecting access to an IBM ThinkPad® notebook with a Bluetooth PC Card from IBM.

"If past experience is any indication, we're expecting a great response to this application from CeBIT attendees," said Howard Dulany, wireless program manager at IBM's Personal Computing Division. "Today's mobile users are increasingly vigilant over the safety of their data. We're combining the best mobile computing platform with easy and convenient security using the Bluetooth standard to ease those concerns and to allow users to focus on their work."

"It is most rewarding to team with IBM to demonstrate a powerful and compelling Bluetooth solution this week at CeBIT," said George Brostoff, president of Ensure Technologies. "By leveraging the forthcoming ubiquity of the Bluetooth standard, we're offering substantial and needed benefits to users: convenient security and personalization of 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 is 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 adds 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 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 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 Special Interest Group, Ensure and its XyLoc wireless PC security will allow Bluetooth wireless devices to positively recognize and identify authorized users and make Bluetooth phones, PCs and PDAs more convenient to use.

BLUETOOTH is a trademark owned by Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson, Sweden and licensed to Ensure Technologies

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