ENSURE TEAMS WITH NEC COMPUTERS INTERNATIONAL

Ensure To Showcase its Patented XyLoc™ Wireless PC Security Solution with NEC at CeBIT 2001

CeBIT, Hannover, Germany, March 20, 2001— Ensure Technologies, the award-winning leader in intelligent PC security solutions, this week will team with NEC Computers International at CeBIT to demonstrate its patented XyLoc™ wireless PC security solution with NEC's notebook & desktop computers. The demonstrations will take place 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 NEC's booth in Hall 13 , Stand C56. The companies will highlight Ensure's XyLoc wireless security and authentication solution personalizing and protecting access to innovative NEC products: Versa notebook and Powermate Super Slimline.

"We're pleased to be teaming with such an innovative company to showcase our complementary solutions," said Ron Biesaart, managing director, Ensure Technologies, Europe. "As mobile computing continues to grow as the preferred PC platform, there is a greater need for more convenience, personalization and security of these devices. XyLoc's patented wireless technology can quickly and easily identify who is accessing a NEC portable so it can be more responsive to the user's needs while also protecting the information it contains."

"We're delighted to be demonstrating Ensure's XyLoc with our most innovative NEC products" said Jean Hatziraptis, Solutions, Software & Partnerships Director, at NEC Computers International. "Ensure's XyLoc wireless PC security solution brings great value to our family of portable and desktop computers by delivering a practical and robust way of securing and protecting access to PC resources, anywhere, anytime. Given the wide range of applications for XyLoc and its flexibility to different user environments, we are looking forward to teaming with Ensure at CeBIT and in future initiatives."

NEC Versa notebooks have a long-standing reputation for being groundbreaking products manufactured to stringent quality standards. NEC Computers International offers a full range of notebooks to satisfy the mobile computing needs of their global customers. While offering different form factors to meet the needs of every user profiles, they use the same set of common accessories, which simplifies manageability.

NEC Computers International Powermate range of desktops is the perfect choice answering all enterprise-wide needs: performance, innovation, manageability and ease-of-use. The exclusive design with four different form factors help tailor each workstation to it's specific environment and makes NEC desktop systems become the natural choice for the most successful companies. A leader in integration, miniaturization and design, NEC was, with its award winning Simplem, the first company to successfully integrate a technologically advanced PC and screen into a format as thin as a flat panel display.

XyLoc is a patented computer security and personalization solution that prevents unauthorized access to confidential company data, and simultaneously makes access to network services and business applications more convenient for authorized employees. XyLoc enables the computer to know automatically and effortlessly who is requesting access to its resources, which delivers a level of personalization and convenience previously unavailable.

XyLoc's patented full-time access control technology protects sensitive data when it is most vulnerable: after logon, when the authorized user steps away from the PC for any reason. Suited for a variety of scalable applications including healthcare and financial services, XyLoc is proximity-activated and completely "hands-free," requiring no user interaction. XyLoc also simplifies access to PKI and protects digital certificates stored on PCs, helping to prevent unauthorized e-commerce transactions.

Ensure is an associate member of the Bluetooth™ Special Interest Group (SIG), 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. As more Bluetooth devices come to market, security will become essential to protect these devices 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.

About NEC Computers International BV

NEC Computers International (NEC CI) is Europe's sixth largest manufacturer of personal computers, supplying the consumer market with the Packard Bell brand and the professional market with the NEC brand. A core company of the Japanese NEC Corporation -and part of the international division of NEC Solutions- NEC CI benefits from the group's on-going commitment to Research & Development. NEC CI supplies personal computers, servers and Internet solutions to individuals, corporations, government and other public sector agencies in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia (except Japan and China). The company's strategic objective is to provide its customers with innovative and global solutions and services, as well as a full range of products to facilitate access to Internet. For the past five years, NEC CI's annual unit sales have recorded an average increase of 30%. The company employs 3,500 people world-wide. Its headquarters are located in Wijchen, The Netherlands. Visit NEC CI web site at : www.nec-online.com

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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