ENSURE TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES XYLOC PROFESSIONAL

Wireless PC Security Solution Delivers Convenience, Personalization and Protection of Confidential PC Information for Financial Services, Legal, Management Consulting and Brokerage Organizations

Ann Arbor, Mich., May 1, 2000 - Ensure Technologies, the award-winning leader in intelligent wireless PC security solutions, this week announced XyLoc Professional™, a wireless PC security solution designed to address the growing need for convenience, personalization and security of confidential client information for professional services fields including financial services, legal, management consulting and brokerage/trading organizations. Ensure will feature XyLoc Professional this week at the Entrust SecureSummit™, Hyatt Regency, Dallas, May 1-4, 2000 in Booth #619.

"Professional services environments are facing growing challenges for information security. They have dual needs: they must protect their own corporate information, but even more critical is the sensitivity of their client records and data," said George Brostoff, co-founder and president of Ensure Technologies. "XyLoc Professional not only delivers an outstanding security solution, but, more importantly, it is a highly flexible and convenient solution that easily adapts the PC to the specific workstyle needs of client services professionals. It works especially well in mobile environments for auditors who are working at client sites, or attorneys who need to protect access to their portables in courtrooms or at depositions."

Making PCs more convenient to access, administer and use, XyLoc Professional transparently prevents unauthorized access to confidential client records, while at the same time making access to network services and business applications more convenient for client services professionals and their staff. XyLoc Professional applies advanced software technology to deliver features and capabilities that are necessary in professional services settings, including:

• Support for Mobile Environments: Protects portables from theft and sensitive data from unauthorized access
• Strengthens PKI Deployments: Augments the Entrust/PKI® software with XyLoc's patented full-time access control for a convenient and robust way to secure business transactions
• Automatic, Hands-Free Logon: Proximity-activated ¾ can be set for "hands-free" with no user interaction; logs authorized user on as they approach the workstation
• Kiosk Accounts: Support for workgroup or team accounts for shared PCs (trading, legal, auditing teams, etc.)
• Personalization, Quick Access and Authentication: Shared applications immediately accessible as users move among different PCs
• Centralized Management Tools: Event logs and audit trails, provided automatically, detail a history of the use of the PC

As a member of the Entrust/Alliance Developer Program, Ensure is working towards achieving Entrust-Ready™ designation for its XyLoc wireless PC security solution. This will enable XyLoc to store Entrust's digital certificates, which will make XyLoc's patented wireless security available to Entrust Technologies' customers, giving them an added layer of protection against unauthorized access to the PC and its resources.

"Entrust Technologies is committed to delivering trusted solutions with partners that enhance the way our customers do business," said Bob Heard, senior vice president, marketing and business development, Entrust Technologies Inc. "We're pleased to welcome Ensure to the partner program and look forward to having Ensure's innovative access control product as an Entrust-Ready solution."

Based on the patented XyLoc wireless security technology, XyLoc Professional is a robust and hassle-free security solution that transparently and conveniently protects PCs and client data from internal security breaches. It detects who is in front of the workstation, whether they are an authorized user and what access privileges they have. Most importantly, XyLoc Professional recognizes when the authorized user is not present and automatically secures the workstation when the authorized user leaves it for any reason. Finally, because it can positively identify authorized users, XyLoc Professional can instantly log users onto their own shared business applications as they approach different workstations located in a customer service center, conference room, law library or trading floor.

Unlike other security technologies, XyLoc Professional takes an innovative approach to user compliance by not requiring any action on the part of the user. It is hands-free: no passwords to enter, no tokens to insert, no fingerprints to scan. With XyLoc Professional, users are recognized based on their proximity to the PC and the computer is unlocked only after it has identified and authenticated them. Users wear unique badges (that can be used in conjunction with their corporate ID badge) that communicate securely with proximity detection hardware and sophisticated software residing on each workstation. When the user walks away from the PC, XyLoc Professional secures the PC until they return or another authorized user approaches the PC. XyLoc Professional works with PCs, portables and workstations running Microsoft® Windows NT®, Windows® 95/98 and Windows® 2000.

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 active member of the Bluetooth™ wireless transmission standard Special Interest Group, XyLoc wireless PC security will allow Bluetooth devices to positively recognize and identify authorized users and make Bluetooth phones, PCs and PDAs more convenient to use.

About Entrust Technologies

Entrust Technologies Inc., is the global leader in solutions that bring trust to e-business relationships by securing business-to-business (B2B), business-to-customer (B2C) and enterprise transactions and communications. Entrust Technologies pioneered public-key infrastructure (PKI) and digital certificate solutions that provide security for business transactions and communications over the Internet. Through its innovation, vision and industry-leading security expertise, Entrust Technologies is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the explosive growth of the e-business market. Entrust Technologies Inc. is headquartered in Plano, Texas with worldwide offices and distributors across North America, Asia and Europe. For additional company information please visit www.entrust.com. .

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

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