Cloakware Inc. Attains Associate Partner Status in the Sun Partner Advantage Program.

VIENNA, Va. -- Cloakware Inc., the security solutions provider that makes security inseparable from software, announced today that it is an Associate Partner in the Sun Microsystems' Sun Partner Advantage Program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). Cloakware has met Sun's stringent criteria for excellence as a supplier of enterprise security solutions and has committed to tight strategic and technical alignment with Sun.

By achieving Associate Partner status, Cloakware joins the growing community of ISVs that are developing applications for or porting applications to the Sun platform. The benefits to Sun customers include access to a broader range of pre-tested, optimized solutions; investment protection and reduced total cost of ownership through collaborative engineering between Sun, Cloakware and its partners; and a higher level of predictability and support as Sun rolls out its latest technologies and software upgrades.

Specifically, Cloakware has ported its Cloakware Server Password Manager (CSPM) solution for both server and client side components. CSPM is the first commercial solution to automatically and securely manage passwords that connect administrators to critical network infrastructure and hard-coded passwords that connect applications to other applications. Leveraging the extreme performance of the highly scalable and optimized networking stack introduced by the Solaris[TM] 10 Operating System (OS), CSPM fits within Sun's customer environments and maintains their expectations for performance and availability.

"Sun Microsystems has a market presence in virtually every vertical industry, developing technologies that power the world's most important markets," said David Canellos, Cloakware executive vice president of worldwide sales. "Through the Sun Partner Advantage Program, Cloakware will provide our customers with Sun's vast resources and expand the sales reach of our industry leading Cloakware Server Password Manager product line."

"We welcome Cloakware to the Sun Partner Advantage Program," said Juan Carlos Soto, vice president, market development for Sun. "Fostering innovation is a key focus for Sun, and Cloakware's actions to optimize its password management solution for the Sun platform is a prime example of this."

With the Solaris 10 OS, Cloakware customers have access to the popular features that are unique to this operating system, such as Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), Predictive Self-Healing, Solaris Containers and Solaris ZFS. These sophisticated features of the Solaris 10 OS provide Cloakware customers with increased network security, optimal performance and less overall server downtime.

About the Sun Partner Advantage Program

Introduced in September, 2005, the Sun Partner Advantage Program, for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), is designed to make it easier for ISVs to get the resources they need to go to market faster on the Solaris 10 OS, link with Sun's Marketing, extend their sales reach, harness the expertise and connections of Sun's partner ecosystem, and help grow their business. The Program helps create an increased level of collaboration among Sun and its ecosystem of technology partners. By participating in the Sun Partner Advantage Program, ISVs receive simplified, programmatic, Web-based access to the resources they need to help them succeed in each stage of the application life cycle: design, development, deployment, and operation. For complete details about the individual offerings that are available, go to www.sun.com/partners/isv.

About Cloakware

Cloakware is the security solutions provider that makes security inseparable from the software it protects. From applications and databases deep inside corporations, to consumer devices like music players, to military weapon systems, more and more software applications need to protect themselves from unauthorized user access and tampering. Only Cloakware's patented, layered, and compliance-driven approach to software self-protection delivers the trusted environment that the government, enterprise, and consumer markets require. As a result, Cloakware solutions are on more than 500 million devices, protecting the assets of some of the world's largest, most recognizable and technologically advanced companies. The company is headquartered in Vienna, Va., has offices in Ottawa, Canada and the UK, and regional sales offices throughout the US.

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