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Ethical Hack Performed by IBM Strongly Validates ERUCES Tricryption Solution.


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KANSAS CITY Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). , Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 2002

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  notes the Tricryption Engine as one of

the best data field protection products on the market

ERUCES Inc., a provider of innovative security software that prevents unauthorized users from reading or tampering tampering The adulteration of a thing. See Drug tampering.  with protected data, today announced the results from IBM's Security and Privacy Services report on the "ethical hack" that was recently completed on the ERUCES Tricryption Engine. The IBM report concluded that the Tricryption Engine is one of the best data field protection products in the database encryption market.

"The Tricryption Engine was designed to provide the highest level of security for the protection of persistent data Data that exists from session to session. Persistent data are stored in a database on disk or tape. Contrast with transient data. See persistent name. ," said ERUCES President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Dr. Bassam Khulusi. "ERUCES is thrilled to receive such strong third party validation of the Tricryption Engine by a company as well-respected as IBM."

IBM's ethical hack report found that the ERUCES Tricryption Engine protected end user data from vigorous attack scenarios based on typical external security threats encountered across an extended enterprise. IBM also concluded that the ERUCES Tricryption Engine provides enhanced privacy protection of confidential records from malicious insiders.

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 IBM, approximately 80 percent of registered security breaches are from staff within the company. The recent increase of external hacks and network breaches contribute to the problem of implementing strong security technology at the database level.

The ERUCES Tricryption Engine is a patent-pending database encryption system that uses industry standard algorithms For computer algorithms, see .

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 stored in the database. The Tricryption Engine provides the highest level of data security possible today by using dynamic key management.

"When using best practices, confidential information contained in encrypted databases will be protected from compromise by the Tricryption Engine, even from rogue database system administrators," said Guy Denton, global security and privacy services, IBM.

IBM uses "ethical hackers A programmer who legally attempts to break into a computer system or network in order to find its vulnerabilities. See penetration test. " that employ the same tools and techniques as actual intruders to evaluate target systems' security applications. The IBM ethical hackers then report back to the developers with the vulnerabilities they found and instructions for how to remedy them.

To learn more about the Tricryption Engine / IBM ethical hack or request a copy of an executive summary of the ethical hack report visit www.tricryption.com or call (913) 310-0888.

About ERUCES

ERUCES is a security software company that allows leaders of their industry to implement the highest level of data security possible. With the ERUCES Tricryption Engine, confidential information in databases is completely protected, leaving hackers and malicious unauthorized users inside the organization with unreadable text. The ERUCES solution ensures that stored data is not tampered with, and that the data remains unchanged and intact. ERUCES is a privately held US company, headquartered in Kansas City, with offices in Austin, Boston, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Silicon Valley, Tampa, Washington, DC and operates an Asia Pacific office in Singapore. For further information visit: www.tricryption.com or call (913) 310-0888.

Tricryption is a registered trademark of ERUCES, Inc.
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