Agilent Technologies ChemStation Plus Security Pack Helps Analytical Laboratories Meet FDA Requirement.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 1999

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the Agilent ChemStation Plus Security Pack for networked data systems, which helps analytical laboratories comply with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ruling on electronic data records and signatures (FDA 21 CFR Part 11).

The Security Pack is an add-on software module for Agilent ChemStation Plus for GC, LC, CE, LC-MSD and CE-MSD techniques. The Security Pack can be installed easily on an existing Agilent ChemStation Plus or set up as part of a new, fully-secured networked data system. It provides users with a plug-and-go solution for data security, data integrity and user-independent audit-trails that fulfills the FDA requirement.

The Security Pack ensures data security through:

--   password protection at logon and for all sensitive review
     activities;
--   Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R) file security combined with the
     data-security features of the Oracle(R) database; and
--   a time-based application lock to prevent any unauthorized
     modification.

Additional features of the Security Pack include automated versioning of reanalysis cycles as well as storage of relevant instrument and column data, together with result, raw and metadata from the analysis. Audit-trails document changes of instrument parameters, re-analysis cycles, and review/approval activities in instrument and application logbooks or as separate documentation. All audit-trails are generated user-independently and can be copied or printed. A built-in archiving routine, which is also documented and protected with audit-trails, provides for long-term archiving and fulfills the requirements for data copy and storage under the FDA ruling.

U.S. Pricing and Availability

The Agilent ChemStation Plus Security Pack is available worldwide and can be ordered through any Agilent Technologies sales office. It costs $3,600 including installation and user-familiarization by an Agilent-trained engineer. Delivery is estimated at two weeks from receipt of order.

About Agilent Technologies

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) is a diversified technology company, resulting from Hewlett-Packard Company's plan to strategically realign itself into two fully independent companies. With 42,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent Technologies is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. The businesses comprising Agilent, a subsidiary of HP, had net revenues of more than $8.3 billion in fiscal year 1999.

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