5 June 2002 - CyberSafe Limited and Symbol Technologies, Inc. announce teaming agreement

The teaming agreement will see the amalgamation of CyberSafe's award-winning Trustbroker™ authentication and key management technology with Symbol Technologies' Spectrum24® 802.11b wireless LAN (WLAN) products.

CyberSafe Limited (www.cybersafe.ltd.uk) has announced a teaming agreement with Symbol Technologies, Inc. (www.symbol.com) that will see the amalgamation of CyberSafe's award-winning TrustBroker Kerberos authentication and key management technology with Symbol Technologies' Spectrum24 High Rate 802.11b wireless LAN (WLAN) products in order to provide a comprehensive range of end-to-end security solutions involving both wireless and wired networks.

Under the agreement, the two global companies - each a major player in its field - will be working together to provide solutions to organisations that need to extend network security beyond traditional WLAN security solutions (which only typically consider the wireless device to wired network access point security) such that end-to-end network and application security needs can be addressed.

This collaboration represents a significant step forward for WLAN security. CyberSafe Limited provides the only multiple operating system, commercially-supported security solutions that implement the mature, standards-based Kerberos protocol (Kerberos is the authentication mechanism that Microsoft uses in Windows 2000, XP and .NET). Symbol Technologies has introduced support for the Kerberos protocol in its Spectrum24® High Rate products. Symbol holds 11.6% of the WLAN market, which is currently worth $1.47 billion*. Its Spectrum24® High Rate platform was last month named 2002 Mobile & Wireless Technology Product of the Year by Network Computing in its 'Well Connected' awards.

In a recent report**, Datamonitor highlighted to WLAN product vendors the need to assure potential customers that WLAN implementations are secure enough to meet the requirements of enterprise use. The capabilities of the Kerberos protocol are ideally suited to address these needs and take WLAN security far beyond the security inherent in the 802.11b WEP standard currently incorporated in most wireless LAN products. CyberSafe's well-established TrustBroker™ products offer end-to-end network security to users of Symbol's WLAN access point and network devices, whilst also addressing all of the known security deficiencies in the current 802.11b WEP standard. The combination of CyberSafe products and Symbol products thus provides levels of security more suited to an enterprise environment since business applications hosted on the wired network can now take advantage of secure network communications across wireless networks.***

Says Tim Alsop, technical director of CyberSafe Limited: "We are delighted to be teaming with Symbol in order to provide end-to-end network security for WLAN users. Kerberos is a scalable, efficient, proven authentication protocol that supports encryption standards such as 3DES, MD5 hashing, and X.509 certificates, and is ideal for network security in both wired and wireless LAN's."

Chris Bell, WLAN Security Specialist at Symbol Technologies, Inc. comments: "This is an important collaboration for us. By teaming with the company that also provided the Kerberos authentication technology that is offered with both Oracle and Sybase products and has worked with many other major software companies to 'Kerberise' their products which are used in enterprise environments, we know that our WLAN security solutions will be flexible, scalable, feature-rich and fully supported for enterprise customers world-wide."

* Source: Synergy Research Group March 2nd 2002
** Wireless LAN's - No Strings Attached
*** For more detailed information on WLAN security and the Kerberos protocol, please see Symbol Technologies' White Paper, Technology for a Secure Mobile Wireless LAN Environment: Evolution, Requirements, Options http://www.symbol.com/ads/security_form.html

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Notes to editors:

How TrustBroker and Spectrum24 High Rate combine to provide end-to-end network security for WLAN users

With the Symbol Spectrum24® High Rate products supporting Kerberos a user of a WLAN enabled device such as a laptop, PDA or desktop computer can authenticate themselves using their existing operating system login information. This same username and password is then used by the Symbol WLAN adapter card or device for Kerberos authentication purposes, giving secure access to the wired network via the access point. The wired network would typically be where the application servers are located in an enterprise network environment. The Symbol access point also authenticates itself to the wired network using the Kerberos protocol during its power-on sequence; this provides an additional level of security not normally provided with other WLAN access point products. The encryption key used to encrypt the network traffic is randomly generated by the CyberSafe Kerberos Key Distribution Centre during the user authentication and used for all subsequent communication between the user's device and the wireless access point.

If the user is roaming and thus connects to another access point a new key is automatically issued and the communication with the wired network continues seamlessly (in contrast with traditional WEP based WLAN security where keys are typically managed manually and are therefore open to many forms of attack/misuse). The end-to-end capabilities provided when the CyberSafe Kerberos Client software is used are apparent when an application on the wireless device uses the same user's unique set of credentials to securely authenticate to applications on the wired networks without the user having to re-authenticate or remember multiple passwords. In this case the encryption of network communications would extend beyond the access point, across the wired network to the application server. Many alternative offerings for WLAN security attempt to address these same problems using VPN-like technology which circumvents the problem, rather than solving the inherent key management problems in the WEP standards today.

About Kerberos

Kerberos, an open standard based secure authentication protocol, was initially designed at MIT under its Project Athena in the late 1970s. Since then it has been enhanced, developed and productised by CyberSafe into its award winning TrustBroker™ products. Microsoft has also implemented the Kerberos protocol in its Windows 2000, XP and .NET Server operating systems and Oracle and Sybase provide Kerberos support within their database products. Some UNIX operating system vendors have included support for Kerberos in their operating systems. With varying degrees of interoperability between the various vendor solutions, CyberSafe is ideally positioned (not being an operating system vendor itself) to offer a strategic cross-platform, commercially available implementation of the Kerberos protocol with consistent and standards based application interfaces across each operating system platform.

The protocol provides a key management solution for authentication purposes. It also 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. Kerberos is ideally suited to provide strong authentication, encryption and message integrity for n-tier or client/server applications such as Oracle, Sybase, SAP® R/3 as well as an increasing number of widely used applications and utilities.

Often used to secure particularly vulnerable network communications like ftp, telnet and other applications, which normally transmit user ID's and passwords in clear text, Kerberos provides the "plumbing" for a common authentication service. Its scalability means that it is ideal for many different types of organisation - small or large.

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 its TrustBroker (also previously marketed as ActiveTRUST ) products 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 Symbol Technologies

Symbol Technologies, Inc. (www.symbol.com) is a global leader in mobile data transaction systems, providing innovative customer solutions based on wireless local area networking for data and voice, application-specific mobile computing and bar code data capture. Symbol's wireless information appliances connect the physical world of people on the move, packages, paper and shipping pallets, to information systems and the Internet. Today, some 10 million Symbol bar code scanners, mobile computers and wireless LAN's are utilized world-wide in markets ranging from retailing to transportation and distribution logistics, manufacturing, parcel and postal delivery, government, healthcare and education. Symbol's systems and products are used to increase productivity from the factory floor to the retail store, to the enterprise and out to the home.

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