PentaSafe Teams With IBM for a Second Year to Provide

Auditing, Security and Intrusion Detection Solutions to All NewAS/400 Customers Houston, Texas (PROTEXT) - PentaSafe, Inc., a leadingdeveloper of auditing, security, vulnerability assessment, andintrusion detection solutions for IBM's AS/400, has been selectedagain by IBM to provide security management to AS/400 usersworldwide with PentaSafe's award-winning products, PSAudit-400,PSSecure-400, and PSDetect-400. This affiliation, through IBM'sSystems Management Partner Group (SMPG), is a combined effort ofthe IBM AS/400 Server Team, IBM Software Vendor Marketing andother systems management vendors, to increase customer awarenessof solutions and resources that can help them better manage theirAS/400's. This is PentaSafe's second year to be selected as anIBM Systems Management Partner. "Offering our customers timely solutions to manage theirAS/400 resources in a rapidly changing business environment is akey focus for IBM. By teaming the AS/400 brand together with keysolution developers, we can deliver solutions that will extendthe AS/400's systems management functions," said Judy Tenney,Director, AS/400 Systems Software Development, IBM. "We arepleased to add PentaSafe's PSDetect-400 to the program, alongwith PSAudit and PSSecure. Together, these products will simplifysecurity management and help to protect mission criticalcorporate data." Through the SMPG initiative, IBM will provide all new V4R4AS/400 customers with PentaSafe's auditing and securitytechnology. Through SMPG's Software Sampler CD, PentaSafe issupplying customers with two ways to check the security of theirsystems and try PentaSafe's solutions. Customers may usePentaSafe's 10 Point Security Check-up Tool(TM), a quick securityanalysis tool that can be both installed and run in minutes.Customers may also request PentaSafe's complete auditing,security, and intrusion detection suite which provides acomprehensive, end-to-end auditing and security solution --protecting the operating system, remote accesses to the system,the applications, as well as the files and objects on the system. Today, administrators are faced with the challenge ofincorporating new technologies, including the Internet,Intranets, and Extranets, which require opening systems and datato more people than ever before. PentaSafe works inside thesystem, beyond a firewall and the security features within theAS/400, to ensure that systems and data are not open to the wrongpeople and that the confidential data stays confidential.Effectively managing the gateways into corporate systems and therisks of electronic business, from the inside and out, requiresestablishing security policies, enforcing those policies, thencontinually auditing systems to insure compliance of thosepolicies. To automate the management of this complex and criticaltask, PentaSafe provides a security solution that can beimplemented in a few hours and requires no permanent alterationof system configuration. PentaSafe's solutions are used worldwide by thousands of ITprofessionals, including 4 of the "Big 5" auditing firms and manyFortune 1000 companies, as a defacto standard in AS/400 securityauditing. PentaSafe's technology provides a completely scalablesecurity management solution that fits into all types ofbusinesses, from the small AS/400 shops or the largest,distributed organizations with a large number of users, multipleAS/400 systems, or multiple networks. "Today, IT security is a competitive advantage." said DouglasJ. Erwin, President and CEO of PentaSafe, Inc. "Simply conductingbusiness electronically or having a website is no longer adifferentiation...that is prevalent throughout every industry andin hundreds of thousands of companies around the world. The mostsuccessful companies will be those that have a grasp on securityand control issues. PentaSafe's technology enables companies tomanage the risks of doing business in the twenty-first centuryand exploit e-business to its fullest." Mr. Erwin continued tosay, "We're looking forward to a another year of partnership withthe IBM Systems Management Partner Group. We are honored that IBMrecognizes the value of PentaSafe's technology and has given usthe opportunity to make it available to every new IBM AS/400customer." PentaSafe's tools provide strong, automated protection for theAS/400 at the operating system level, at the application leveland at the file/object level -- reducing the risk of exposure intoday's connected world. PentaSafe's goal is to make it easy forsecurity administrators and IT managers to audit, secure andprotect their systems and get critical security managementinformation, when they need it, in a format that is simple tounderstand and use. PentaSafe's award-winning technology covers all aspects ofAS/400 security. This includes automated security auditing, fileand system access tracking and control, systems management,remote access control (exit programs), security policycompliance, e-commerce database security, automatic log-off, anduser profile management, and more. Since last year's CD Samplerwas released, PentaSafe has announced a new Java-based centralmanagement interface, VigilEnt Enterprise, which gives anadministrator the power to audit and secure one to hundreds ofAS/400s from a single point of control. VigilEnt Enterpriseprovides the a consolidated view of security and allows theadministrator to not only find problems but also fix them rightfrom the VigilEnt Enterprise interface. Currently, there are noother products on the market that allow consolidation of auditingreports on multiple AS/400s into a single report. Furthermore,because VigilEnt Enterprise is Java-based it will allow PentaSafeto add auditing for other platforms such as Unix and NT moreeasily. PentaSafe integrates with AXENT's Enterprise Security Managerto provide multi-platform auditing and security from a singleinterface. PentaSafe has also developed a software applicationmodule for JDEdwards' WorldSoftware to provide added security,ease of administration and auditing for JDEdwards files beyondthe application's security. PentaSafe prides itself on building the highest qualitytechnology that is driven by user demand. PentaSafe's PSAuditproduct was recently voted by readers as "The Best AS/400Auditing Product" in the AS/400 Technology Showcase MagazineAwards. And PentaSafe's PSSecure product was chosen as the BestAS/400 Security Product ("Pick of 1998") by Secure ComputingMagazine. In addition to the IBM Systems Management Partner Group,PentaSafe is an IBM Business Partner, a Premier Member of IBM'sPartners in Development Program and an IBM Independent SoftwareVendor. PentaSafe also has alliances with Arthur Andersen andErnst & Young. These close partnerships help PentaSafe tocontinually maintain the most current standards in securityauditing and management. PentaSafe, Inc. is a privately held company based in Houston,Texas with offices in Oklahoma City, London, and Copenhagen. otsOriginal Text Service: PentaSafe, Inc.; IBM Internet:http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Janette Deyhle, Marketing ofPentaSafe, Inc., Tel.: (in the USA) 713-523-1992, or fax, 713-523-6393, or email, jld@pentasafe.com Web site:http://www.pentasafe.com

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