8 February 2002 - CyberSafe Limited Launches Kerberos Web Portal

CyberSafe Limited (www.cybersafe.ltd.uk), the Kerberos solution provider, has launched a Web portal that provides a central information repository covering all aspects of the Kerberos protocol including its capabilities, associated standards, links to learning resources and details of products that currently support the protocol. It is the first of its kind.

The company, which will be exhibiting at InfoSecurity Europe 2002, Olympia, from 23-25 April, has designed its Web site so that any organisation that is interested in Kerberos, in any of its implementations, can gain access to news and information without having to trawl the Web or pore over paper publications.

Says Tim Alsop, technical director of CyberSafe Limited, "As the acknowledged experts on commercially supported Kerberos security solutions, we wanted to bring our customers and contacts a single information source for Kerberos. The Web portal provides a comprehensive information resource for anyone wanting to find out more about Kerberos and its commercial applications. Over the coming months, we will also be enhancing the site's news update which will provide a digest of the latest news on Kerberos from the world's media, as well as CyberSafe news, articles and case studies. In addition, we hope to create a forum for discussion between our customers, our own Kerberos specialists and our partners, as well as direct links to our partners' Web sites."

About CyberSafe

Headquartered in the UK, the mission of CyberSafe Limited is to deliver and support Kerberos based security solutions on a global basis. As well as supporting, marketing and developing the TrustBroker™ . (also previously marketed as ActiveTRUST™.) products originally developed by US based CyberSafe Corporation*, CyberSafe Limited provides complementary solutions with, and promotes 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 approach CyberSafe is able to offer the best technology based solution to meet each customer's individual network and application authentication needs.

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 many different types of organisation - small or large.

* 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