CRYPTOCard Wins SC Magazine's Coveted ''Best Buy'' Award; ''CRYPTOCard Has Been around for a While, and It's Pedigree Shows'' Says SC Magazine's Review.

OTTAWA -- CRYPTOCard's (www.cryptocard.com) CRYPTO-Server authentication solution has been awarded the highly-prestigious, "Best Buy," award by SC Magazine in its annual comparative test of seven two-factor authentication solutions. The award is given to the authentication solution that provides the best combination of features, ease of use, performance, documentation, support, and value for money after rigorous testing in SC Magazine's laboratory.

"SC Magazine's "Best Buy" award is given to solutions that stand above the rest of the offerings in their space, and CRYPTOCard's CRYPTO-Server certainly fits that billing," said Jon Tullett, Global Technology Editor, SC Magazine. "CRYPTO-Server's five-star rating clearly underscores its position as a two-factor authentication solution of the highest caliber."

Conducted at SC Magazine's state-of-the-art laboratory, the comprehensive two-factor authentication product review examined each product in detail, and awarded CRYPTOCard's CRYPTO-Server the maximum award of five stars. CRYPTO-Server was particularly praised for its "wide variety of token form factors and platforms supported," and its "ease of administration." In fact, in the section of the review that lists each product's faults, SC Magazine simply writes "virtually nothing" for CRYPTO-Server. And in its final verdict the publication writes that, "the product is slick, supports virtually everything an organization needs in terms of authentication requirements as well as supporting a wide choice of token form factors."

"CRYPTOCard is extremely pleased that its CRYPTO-Server authentication solution has been awarded SC Magazine's coveted two-factor authentication "Best Buy" award," said Malcolm MacTaggart, President & CEO, CRYPTOCard Corporation. "This award underscores CRYPTOCard's commitment to provide the ultimate in cost-effective, highly-secure, and easy-to-use authentication technology across all major operating systems."

CRYPTO-Server utilizes the familiar ATM-style (i.e. One-PIN-And-You're-In) protocol to make it simple to positively authenticate all users attempting to access a VPN or Web-based system by coupling something in the user's possession (a multi-function smart card, USB dongle token, hardware token, software token, or Pocket PC token), with something they know (their PIN). CRYPTO-Server generates a one-time password for every log-on attempt, making stolen passwords/credentials useless to hackers while simultaneously eliminating the need for users to memorize complicated passwords - significantly reducing help-desk costs associated with resetting forgotten passwords, and the obvious security risk associated with users writing down their passwords. CRYPTO-Server's familiar ATM-style protocol also eliminates the user resistance often encountered when organizations attempt to implement an additional layer of security, by making the system easier to use than static passwords.

CRYPTO-Server also includes the world's first browser-integrated two-factor authentication solution for Apache web servers. CRYPTO-Server's CRYPTO-Web component makes it simple to authorize and positively identify all Apache web server users - and with almost 75 percent (or more than 15 million) of the world's web servers running on Apache, CRYPTO-Server represents a significant advance in authentication technology for the dominant player in the web medium. CRYPTO-Server's browser-based administrative interface makes it simple for organizations to support hundreds of Apache servers (for example, in a web farm) through a single interface, providing a single point of administration that makes it easy for organizations to implement and administer token-deployment - by simply importing existing LDAP (e.g. Active Directory or Open LDAP) directories or to support web farms or virtual web sites.

CRYPTO-Server also includes CRYPTOCard's innovative "Follow-Me Computing" that makes it easy for server-based computing (Citrix or MS Terminal Services) users to start a remote session by simply inserting their CRYPTOCard multi-function smart card, or USB dongle token, and entering their PIN. Then, after logging off by simply removing their authentication device, the user is free to reinsert their smart card or USB dongle token and enter their PIN at another thick-client or thin-client terminal to resume the same session at exactly the point at which it was suspended (e.g. Cell D3, in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet) - the applications literally follow the user around the building or campus. The system can be set by the administrator to lock the machine or to simply log-off the user, and can be coupled with the door access capability of CRYPTOCard's smart card to make it simple for an organization to ensure that users have to log off after every session in order to be able to travel around the campus.

CRYPTO-Server's other components include CRYPTO-Web, which protects Apache and IIS Websites down to the page level; CRYPTO-Kit, which provides developers with the tools to make it simple to integrate CRYPTOCard's technology with existing security applications/systems; CRYPTO-Deploy, to facilitate the deployment and activation of tokens; CRYPTO-VPN, that makes it simple to provide authenticated access to third-party VPNs and remote access devices (e.g. Cisco, Checkpoint, Neoteris, and Nortel); and CRYPTO-Migration; which provides RSA Migration functionality that enables organizations to switch from an alternative system (CRYPTOCard's tokens, with replaceable batteries, are deployed once and can be utilized indefinitely).

About CRYPTOCard Corporation

Established in 1989, CRYPTOCard provides cost-effective Secure Password Technology to leading enterprises worldwide in the government, technology, aerospace, financial, telecommunications, and healthcare sectors. CRYPTOCard positively authenticates a user's identity by coupling something in the user's possession (a smart card, hardware token, or software token), with something the user knows (their PIN), and provides centralized authentication for all physical and network access regardless of network infrastructure or user location. CRYPTOCard's partners include Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), Check Point (Nasdaq: CHKP), Citrix (Nasdaq: CTXS), Entrust (Nasdaq: ENTU), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), and Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR). For additional information on CRYPTOCard, please visit www.cryptocard.com.

CRYPTOCard, CRYPTO-Server, CRYPTO-Admin, CRYPTO-Deploy, and CRYPTO-Logon are trademarks of CRYPTOCard Corporation. Other products mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.