CYA Technologies Sees Content Security and Collaboration Becoming Integrated Part of Business Continuity Solutions in 2004.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

RSA Conference 2004

Booth No. 215

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2004

Organizations are Changing the Way they Store, Secure and Interact

with Sensitive Content

CYA Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of business continuity and secure collaboration software that secures and protects mission-critical information across the enterprise, today announced that the inclusion of content security and collaboration into business continuity strategies is a major initiative among many of its clients, which include some of the world's largest enterprises. Elaine Price, co-founder, president and CEO of CYA Technologies, will be at RSA booth # 215 speaking on the implications of this trend for enterprises.

Nearly all Fortune 2000 companies store mission-critical information and applications within a content management repository. These repositories are often the first to be protected with business continuity solutions. Many enterprises have avoided storing highly sensitive documents and content within content management systems because of their flexible user access. Instead enterprises have opted to store highly sensitive information in hardcopy format in secure locations. This practice undermines the value of an organization's business continuity solution.

"We are seeing a change in the market. Enterprises are beginning to understand the importance of marrying content security, collaboration and business continuity," said Price. "After September 11th, companies were implementing robust business continuity technology to protect critical information and applications, but their most important documents were on paper in storage facilities instead of in a corporate repository. "Today, companies are leveraging existing content management systems and augmenting them with robust secure collaboration technology to protect and store highly sensitive content."

By wrapping security and collaboration under the umbrella of business continuity, organizations can store more information within their content management repositories. This practice leverages their investment in content management and business continuity technology. It also provides a cost-effective method to protect critical information and applications at each point of the information lifecycle. From creation, collaboration, dissemination, to archival, critical information is protected from disaster as well as from malicious or accidental dissemination and use.

There are several factors that CYA Technologies' recommends their clients consider when determining how to incorporate security and collaboration into their business continuity solution. These include:

-- How to minimize the risks involved in collaboration;

-- How to assess the value of critical information;

-- The importance of audit trails to monitor user interaction

with information;

-- The importance of roles in a secure collaboration solution.

"Regulatory pressures and a growing awareness that IP Asset management is paramount to business competitiveness are positioning business continuity and digital rights management (DRM) into the forefront of business strategy. Executives realize that protecting information from corruption, ensuring maximum uptime, facilitating fast information restoration and protecting sensitive, confidential information electronically is quickly becoming a matter of doing business in the digital age. But, forward thinking executives realize that investments in business continuity and DRM are not just about protection and security. It creates a foundation to new opportunities and business models, allowing for unprecedented levels of sharing securely, leading to greater leverage and payback from IP," said Carl Frappaolo, Delphi Group.

Elaine Price has more than 20 years experience the high technology sector including executive level roles in sales, marketing and development. She has founded 3 successful technology companies all of which are involved with content management and business continuity implementation and products. Ms. Price will be available at the RSA Conference in San Francisco at the Moscone Center at booth #215 to discuss her views on this topic, and others.

About CYA Technologies

CYA Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of business continuity and secure-collaboration solutions for Fortune 2000 companies. Founded in 1998, the privately held company has introduced innovative, flexible approaches to backup, recovery, archiving, migration and security of dynamic content and complex relationships within enterprise applications. In 2003, CYA ranked #1 on the Deloitte CT TECHNOLOGY Council Fast 50 List for Connecticut and #125 on the Deloitte Fast 500 list, which ranks the fastest growing technology companies in North America. CYA is headquartered in Trumbull, Connecticut; and has offices throughout the United States and Europe. For more information about CYA Technologies, please visit www.cya.com