JSB's surfCONTROL Achieves Tivoli Ready Certification With Tivoli IT Director; Corporate Filtering Powerhouse Hits Final Stage in Tivoli IT Director Certification.

Business/Technology Editors

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2000

Building on its market leadership in Corporate Internet Filtering, JSB's surfCONTROL today announced the successful completion of its integration initiative with Tivoli Systems. As the newest member of Team Tivoli, surfCONTROL's top-of-the-line Corporate Internet Monitoring, Filtering and Access Control solution - SuperScout -- is now officially Tivoli Ready.

Tivoli IT Director provides small business IT administrators with comprehensive, integrated IT management functions that allow organizations to manage applications, systems and networks from a single point of control. Tivoli IT Director users now have access to the comprehensive Internet monitoring, reporting and access control capabilities offered by SuperScout.

"At surfCONTROL, it has always been our belief that companies require tools to help them to leverage - rather than restrict - their use of the corporate Internet. And we've always promoted SuperScout as the market's answer to achieving this goal," said Steve Purdham, President, JSB's surfCONTROL. "Our successful integration with Tivoli IT Director validates these claims."

"The Tivoli Partner Program is designed to provide users with a choice of best-of-breed products, along with the peace of mind that the Tivoli Ready Brand provides," said Bill Potratz, manager Tivoli Ready Partner Program. "We are happy to have surfCONTROL stand among the elite group of vendors to have successfully met the task."

The Tivoli Partner Program - Team Tivoli

The Tivoli Ready brand designates that products like SuperScout meet key integration standards for manageability by Tivoli software. Tivoli Ready products add real business value, giving customers an effective end-to-end management solution that allows the organization to receive the most tangible benefit from their IT resources. Together, Tivoli and Tivoli Ready Product Partners minimize the complex problems that multi-vendor, multi-platform implementations present.

surfCONTROL SUPERSCOUT

Leveraging surfCONTROL's unique brand of "Positive Filtering" and "Pass-By" technologies, SuperScout offers comprehensive monitoring, blocking and control of Internet access without having an impact on the corporate network.

SuperScout provides a simple "drag-and-drop" paradigm with easy-to-read rules to control Internet access. SuperScout also delivers powerful management reports on screen, in print or over the Web. These reports analyze the network traffic and present information in a manner ideally suited for today's business manager.

Easy to install on a Windows NT workstation or server, SuperScout monitors and controls all TCP/IP Internet Protocols, including WWW, FTP, Mail and Telnet. With the ability to operate totally transparent to its users, SuperScout is built upon a powerful engine certified by the ICSA (International Computer Security Association) SIFT Certification process.

ABOUT TIVOLI SYSTEMS INC.

Tivoli Systems Inc. provides the industry's leading open, highly scalable and cross-platform management solutions that span networks, systems, applications and business-to-business e-commerce. Leading companies around the world use Tivoli software and compatible third-party products to reduce the cost and complexity of managing networks, systems, databases and applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM Company. Tivoli distributes its products worldwide through a network of global sales offices, systems integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit Tivoli's World Wide Web site at www.tivoli.com.

ABOUT JSB's surfCONTROL

surfCONTROL, a division of JSB Software Technologies plc, is the foremost authority on Corporate Filtering, providing the market's premier Internet access management software. Based on sophisticated "Expert Filtering" and "Pass-By" technologies, the surfCONTROL family ensures that corporate "Internet Access is Business Access." This comprehensive line of Internet monitoring, management and filtering offerings - now including the entire LittleBrother and SurfWatch product lines -- address many of the key issues raised by corporate Internet access, such as productivity, legal liability, infrastructure bandwidth, and network security.

surfCONTROL (www.surfcontrol.com) is a division of JSB Software Technologies plc (www.jsb.com), the prime architect for the Windows Sockets standard and provider of innovative communications technology for the world's leading ISVs. surfCONTROL works with a range of strategic partners, including Check Point Software (NASDAQ: CHKP), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Hewlett Packard (NASDAQ: HWP), IBM (NASDAQ: IBM), ICSA, ISS, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISSX), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), and Tivoli Systems. Headquartered in Scotts Valley, Calif. and Manchester, UK, JSB is quoted on the London Stock Exchange as `JSB' and the EASDAQ as `JSBS.'

Note to Editors: Products mentioned herein may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. surfCONTROL is a registered trademark of JSB Software Technologies plc

Tivoli and Tivoli Ready are trademarks or registered trademarks of Tivoli Systems Inc., an IBM Company, in the United States, other countries, or both. In Denmark, Tivoli is a trademark licensed from Kjobenhavns Sommer -Tivoli A/S.