Caymas Systems Positioned in the ``Visionary'' Quadrant on 3Q05 SSL VPN Magic Quadrant; Identity-Driven Access Gateways Achieve Worldwide Recognition in Only One Year Since Launch.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Caymas Systems, the leading provider of Identity-Driven Access Gateways, announced today that the company has debuted in the "Visionary" quadrant by Gartner in their prestigious "Magic Quadrant for SSL VPN, North America, 3Q05"(1) report. This positioning of Caymas has come in less than one year of shipping its first generally available products.

"We believe our position in the Visionary Quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant is confirmation of Caymas Systems and Identity-based access control," said Terry Brown, President and CEO of Caymas Systems. "In only one year since introducing our Identity-Driven Access Gateways, hundreds of U.S. and Canadian customers confirm the need for high performance, ultra secure, and radically economical access control based on Identity for VPN and LAN access."

The report notes that the demand for SSL-based virtual private networks (VPNs) continues to be strong and now outpaces demand for Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) VPNs. Gartner states that "The market is dominated by appliances; pure software products have proved to be less competitive than drop-in, plug-and-play solutions." Furthermore, Gartner indicates that security features are a "visionary competitive differentiator" for access appliances, noting that the ability to integrate endpoint security, perform network admission control, and enforce firewall rules for managed and unmanaged users will be important to customers.

The award winning Caymas 220, Caymas 318 and Caymas 525 are the world's first Identity-Driven Access Gateways. Caymas uses its unique, patent pending Identity Tagging Architecture to tie all access control and network security decisions to Identity, based on a comprehensive set of criteria including the Identities of users, devices, locations, and client configurations. Caymas gateways are radically economical, ASIC-based appliances and the only solutions that support from as few as ten to many thousands of remote and LAN-based users, devices, and resources on a single platform.

Caymas Identity-Driven Access Gateways are deployed at three locations:

1) Enterprise perimeter for SSL VPN remote access and business partner extranets

2) Local Area Network for network admission control and internal guest/contractor access

3) Data center for regulatory compliance, reduced and single sign on, and the PKI enablement of applications

About Caymas

Caymas Systems award winning Identity-Driven Access Gateways allow organizations to control access and control their business. Caymas offers the only access gateways that leverage the Identities of users, devices, and resources to connect the right user to the right resource every time, dramatically improving enterprise access control and security. Caymas delivers the only ASIC-based appliances that harness The Power of Identity(TM) to provide a universal access solution -- a single platform for network admission and application access control, for both remote and internal users, with centralized access policy. For more information visit www.caymas.com.

About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

1. Gartner Research "Magic Quadrants for SSL VPN, North America, 3Q05" by John Girard. December 8, 2005