ADVISORY/Homeland Security and Biometrics Workshop to be Conducted by Department of Defense, Port Authority and Sonic Foundry at the BiometriTech Conference in New York City.

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ADVISORY...for Thursday (June 27)

Sonic Foundry to Discuss Rapid Nationwide Implementation Options

for Deploying Biometrics to Enhance Homeland Security 

WHO:     Krishna Pendyala, Senior VP, Strategy & Consulting for Sonic
         Foundry.

         Sonic Foundry's (Nasdaq: SOFO) Unified Security View(TM)
         (USV) provides the ability to unobtrusively capture multiple
         biometrics, media and text information and link them to
         legacy information to create chronologically rich
         identification dossiers. This approach ensures faster
         roll-out and greater accuracy in the authentication process.

WHAT:    Long before Sept. 11, the concept of achieving greater
         security using biometrics was slowly gaining momentum. After
         the attacks, government agencies, corporations, law
         enforcement agencies and facility managers all seeking to
         control the access to or protection of data -- without
         impacting commerce -- have accelerated their new security
         initiatives. The ability to quickly authenticate a person's
         identity by using biometric data -- without significantly
         impeding those who legitimately seek access -- has become a
         significant component of success. Connecting biometrics to
         existing IDs reduces the nation's challenge of having to
         standardize on a new token and its data formats, as well as
         revamp the gamut of large-scale, system-wide processes.

         However, balancing the need for enhanced authentication with
         a minimum amount of disruption -- both from a nationwide
         implementation as well as a daily operations standpoint --
         can be daunting. During this three-hour workshop, Sonic
         Foundry's Pendyala, Robert Smallback of the Lee County (Fla.)
         Port Authority and Duane Blackburn with the Department of
         Defense will discuss how biometrics, its relevance,
         challenges and approaches, can enhance security without
         sacrificing freedom of movement for government, public and
         corporate security applications.

WHEN:    BiometricTech
         Workshop Title: "Homeland Security and Biometrics"
         Thursday, June 27, 2002, 1:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
         The Hotel Penn, New York City
         www.biometritechexpo.com

CONTACT: For more information, or to schedule an interview with
         Krishna Pendyala at BiometriTech or by phone, contact:
         Terri Douglas, Catapult PR-IR
         303/581-7760, ext. 18
         [e-mail]