ADVISORY/ Dr. Nicko van Someren, Chief Technology Officer of nCipher Inc., to Present in Panel Discussion At the Internet Security Conference.

Business/Technology Editors

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (April 26)

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Event:         Dr. Nicko van Someren, chief technology officer of
               nCipher Inc., to present in panel discussion at The
               Internet Security Conference

Location:      Regency Ballroom 2 at the Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA,
               170 South Market Street San Jose, CA 95113, Phone:
               [phone]

Panel
Presentation:  Dr. Nicko van Someren, "CTO Roundtable: Securing the
               Network Infrastructure."
               Wednesday, April 26, 2000 at 3:10 p.m.

Dr. Nicko van Someren is participating in a six-person panel discussion at The Internet Security Conference (TISC) entitled, "CTO Roundtable: Securing the Network Infrastructure," Wednesday, April 26, 2000 at 3:10 p.m. at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif.

With the advent of active directories and other dynamic tools used on infrastructures these days, the "fragility" of the network environment increases with every new interconnection tool. It's becoming easier to disrupt network operations by disabling or killing DNS, DHCP, LDAP, X.509 CA's, and many other servers and systems that make corporate network infrastructure. This is a session about "hardening up" the network infrastructure to make it more survivable in real networking environments. Topics will include network security for servers, router filters and configuration issues, switch placement and management, internal firewalls and distributed firewalls, securing authentication servers and other related topics.

Dr. van Someren, chief technology officer and a co-founder of nCipher, is a recognized industry authority on the security issues facing today's organizations and the e-commerce marketplace. Working with leading organizations to implement sound and practical security policies and solutions, Dr. van Someren has more than 20 years of experience in cryptography, software and hardware product development and academic research. He holds a doctorate and First Class degree in Computer Science from Trinity College, Cambridge, England.

About nCipher

Founded in 1996, nCipher is the leading provider of high-performance hardware security products specifically designed for e-commerce and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) applications. nCipher's family of products accelerate secure transactions and provide secure key management capabilities for organizations with high volumes of security sensitive transactions. nCipher customers include many of the world's leading financial institutions, e-retailers, service providers (ISPs/ASPs) and government agencies.

nCipher is located at booth #114. For more information or to schedule an interview with Dr. Nicko van Someren, please contact Karma Franklin at [phone] or [e-mail].