20 September 2001 - Launch of CyberSafe Limited

UK-based company will serve global market for Kerberos protocol-based authentication solutions

CyberSafe Limited (www.cybersafe.ltd.uk), which inherits its name from the US-based CyberSafe Corporation*, launches today as a completely independent, UK-based company. CyberSafe Limited enters the IT security market under the management of two former senior executives of the American company.

CyberSafe Limited has taken over the Kerberos protocol based authentication solution business from CyberSafe Corporation in all world regions outside of North America. The new company will continue to enhance these products to meet the needs of existing and new customers. Additionally, CyberSafe Limited plans to develop new product solutions using the Kerberos protocol.

As well a continuing to support, market and develop the TrustBroker™ (also previously marketed as ActiveTRUST™) products, CyberSafe Limited plans to provide complementary solutions with, and promote the appropriate use of, other Kerberos protocol implementations available on the market today --both Open Source, such as that provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the capabilities of the Kerberos protocol included in Microsoft operating systems.

With this strategy CyberSafe will be able to offer the best technology based solution to meet each customer's individual network and application authentication needs.

Heading up the new company as managing director is Nigel Farnfield, formerly managing director (EMEA) with CyberSafe Corporation. Before joining CyberSafe Corporation he was European director of finance and administration at Wall Data, following several years as North American business analyst for an international engineering company.

His co-director in the new company is Tim Alsop. As technical director, Alsop will be responsible for product strategy and technical liaison with business partners and customers. He has more than 18 years' experience in the computer industry and is an acknowledged expert in the exploitation of Kerberos technology.

About the Products

The CyberSafe TrustBroker™ products feature multi-platform, common authentication. They secure an organisation's intranet and extranet against inside and outside threats, even when using unsecured networks (such as the Internet). They are scalable, interoperable on the leading installed business operating system platforms, and flexible through their support of multiple authentication mechanisms (passwords, certificates, token cards, smart cards, etc.) using a unique brokering technique.

The TrustBroker™ products allow an organisation to implement a secure, strategic and "common authentication" infrastructure so that operating system access and application security can be integrated into a single framework architecture. The integration with Microsoft's Windows 2000 networks allows a full return on investment and bridges the gap between heterogeneous networks or operating system environments.

About Kerberos

Kerberos, originally developed at MIT under its Project Athena, provides secure authentication in networked environments, without the threat of passwords being viewed while traveling across the network. Additionally, the protocol includes data integrity to ensure messages are not tampered with on the network and message privacy (encryption) to ensure messages are not visible to eavesdroppers on the network. The protocol is appropriately named after the three-headed dog who, in Greek mythology, guarded the entrance to Hades. Kerberos is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications such as Oracle by using secret-key cryptography.

A reference implementation of the protocol is available from MIT as Open Source. The Kerberos protocol has also been implemented in some commercially available products, such as those provided by CyberSafe, and Microsoft has implemented the Kerberos protocol in its Windows 2000 and XP operating systems. Some UNIX operating system vendors have also included support for Kerberos in their operating systems and an increasing number of application vendors are recognising the value that this protocol can have to improve the authentication and privacy capabilities in their products.

Used to secure particularly vulnerable network communications like ftp, telnet and other widely used Internet protocols, which normally transmit user ID's and passwords in clear text, Kerberos provides the "plumbing" for common authentication services. Its scalability means that it is ideal for large networks such as those used by government, telecommunications and major financial institutions.

* There is no financial connection between CyberSafe Limited and CyberSafe Corporation

For further information, please contact:

Christina Relf, Kudos Marketing Ltd
DDI: +44 (0)1794 514441 Switchboard: +44 (0)1794 518171 Fax: 08700 515879
christina@kudos-marketing.co.uk

Tim Alsop, Technical Director, CyberSafe Limited
DDI: +44(0)1256 330596 Switchboard: +44 (0)700 4 KERBEROS / +44(0)700 4 537 237
Fax: +44 (0)207 681 3249
tim.alsop@cybersafe.ltd.uk