CRYPTOCard's CA 5.16 Technology Wins Comdex's 'Best of Show - Security' Award.

Business Editors & High-Tech Writers

KANATA, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 2001

CRYPTOCard, (www.cryptocard.com) the innovative leader in Secure Password Technology, announces its new administration and security server - CRYPTOAdmin 5.16.

This CA 5.16 technology won the "Best of Show" award at Comdex, in the extremely competitive security product category.

Coupled with CRYPTOCard's smart card solution, hardware tokens, or software tokens, CRYPTOAdmin 5.16 provides easy-to-use, deploy, and customize security by making it easy for administrators to authenticate a user to several applications and, or, secure servers.

With the marked escalation in Internet use and Internet breaches in today's business environment, organizations must address the very real concerns associated with Internet and Intranet privacy. CRYPTOCard's web security solution, CRYPTOWeb, included within the CA 5.16 package, positively identifies each user attempting access by generating a unique and unpredictable one-time 'Secure Password'. The 'Secure Password' is only valid for the current logon attempt, and is immediately discarded after use - making it useless to hackers.

Recognized at Comdex for its seamless web integration, CRYPTOCard's Secure Password Technology insulates the user from the complexity of traditional strong authentication approaches. The user simply enters the randomly-generated Secure Password into the secure site they are accessing, from any location or browser. CRYPTOWeb makes it simple for organizations to manage and secure iPlanet (Netscape), Microsoft IIS, Apache, and Tomcat web-server access down to the web-page level. The result: An extremely high level of security, that's easy to use, and accessible from any browser, anywhere.

"As our win at Comdex underscores, organizations realize that a traditional 'username + static-password' schema no longer provides adequate protection," commented Malcolm MacTaggart, President & CEO, CRYPTOCard Corp. "Static passwords are a relic of the 50's, and don't provide the protection and security required in the 21st century. Organizations simply cannot guarantee system security if they cannot authenticate the identity of each user," MacTaggart continued. "CRYPTOCard provides Secure Password Technology that makes it trivially easy for organizations to positively identify each individual user."

Ideal for today's dispersed workforce, CRYPTOCard's technology can be issued locally or remotely, depending on the situation or the organization's security policy. Coupled with a smart card or token, CRYPTOAdmin 5.16 provides LAN, remote, or web-server access for all authorized users, and enables administrators to instantly identify any users attempting network access from any location. Remote users can connect through firewall, RAS/NAS, or VPN.

CRYPTOCard's versatility enables organizations to customize security to meet their security policy requirements for network access. Administrators can restrict individual user access to specified network areas by limiting a particular smart card or tokens network clearance. Also, as the tokens are revocable at any time, organizations can distribute to large user populations, Intranet partners, or others requiring temporary network access.

The Smart Card Token, or the Soft Token, are both auto-downloadable from an Internet Explorer Browser. A network administrator can implement SPT security on Windows 2000 networks. CRYPTOLogon for Windows can replace the Microsoft Logon (i.e. the GINA DLL) to apply CRYPTOCard's 'Secure Password Technology' security during the Windows log-on process.

The CRYPTOCard Smart Card Reader is ISO 7816-1/2/3 compliant, EMV and Microsoft PC/SC certified, and supports all major PC platforms. The CRYPTOCard Smart Card (SC-1) is ISO 7816, EMV 3.1.1, and Java Card 2.1 compliant. Its private key algorithms are DES and T-DES, and public key algorithms are RSA and SHA-1.

CRYPTOAdmin 5.16 will ship on December 5th, and runs on Microsoft Windows, Solaris, or Linux operating systems. Pricing for CRYPTOAdmin starts at $2,495.

About CRYPTOCard

Established in 1989, CRYPTOCard provides cost-effective Secure Password Technology to leading enterprises worldwide in the government, technology, aerospace, financial, telecommunications, and healthcare sectors. The CRYPTOCard system positively authenticates a network user's identity by coupling something in the user's possession (a smart card, hardware token, or software token), with something the user knows (a PIN). CRYPTOCard's versatile Secure Password Technology provides centralized authentication for all network access regardless of network infrastructure or user location, and eliminates the need for static passwords. Partners include Cisco, Microsoft, Check Point, Entrust, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Macromedia. For additional information on CRYPTOCard, visit www.cryptocard.com.

CRYPTOCard, CRYPTOAdmin, and the SC-1 CRYPTOCard Smart Card are trademarks of CRYPTOCard Corporation. Other products mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.