MetaInfo Unveils Enhanced Security and Management Options With Meta IP v5.5.

SEATTLE, Wash. -- MetaInfo, a leader in network and Internet Protocol (IP) address management solutions that provide a secure IP foundation, has released Meta IP v5.5, the next version of its Meta IP software.

Meta IP v5.5 includes key new features designed to help companies better manage, control, and secure domain name system (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) services. These include new components for its secure addressing foundation extensions (SAFE DHCP) such as a Web registration template and the SAFE DHCP SecureSmart Module designed specifically for integrating with the Perfigo SecureSmart and CleanMachines solution. Meta IP v5.5 also offers significantly more platforms, configuration deployment options for DNS and enhancements to SAFE DHCP.

"We have greatly extended the functionality of Meta IP v5.5 to give our customers better control over managing their DNS and DHCP systems and their overall IP network," said Grant Asplund, CEO, MetaInfo.

The Web registration template lets network administrators streamline the capture of user data, and automate its entry into the MAC database prior to address authentication, in a manner that is easy to present, distribute, and automate. When used in conjunction with the SAFE DHCP MAC Address Authentication Module, customers can create a customized Web page where network users must register key information, which is then associated with the user's MAC address prior to receiving authenticated and privileged IP addresses.

The SAFE DHCP Host Integrity Module has also been added to Meta IP v5.5 to integrate with solutions that protect against unauthenticated access, viruses, worms, malicious code and non-compliance at the IP layer. As an alternative to standard DHCP issuing addresses to any user on the network, Meta IP SAFE DHCP supplies a non-privileged or "quarantined" IP address and checks the machines identity while simultaneously requesting network policy compliance and virus scan from host integrity partner solutions.

"We have used Meta IP to improve network efficiency, ease growth, and improve ROI," said James LoTruglio, Vice President, Information Technology, The Hearst Corporation. "We are now building on our success by leveraging infrastructure security enabled with SAFE DHCP to reduce costs for securing IP service access and minimize the threat of viruses and worms for our wired and wireless network access points."

Meta IP v5.5 also accommodates a new Meta DNS Pro product, which includes more features and allows more DNS services, for a best practice DNS-only deployment. Meta IP v5.5 includes new platform deployment options including the MetaInfo Appliance series, which was developed to support Meta IP v5.5, and to provide customers with greater security, heightened performance, eased deployment, and set up. Meta IP v5.5 can also be deployed on Windows, Solaris and Linux hardware platforms. New platforms for Meta IP v5.5 including Windows 2003 (including integration wizards for AD 2003), SUSE, Red Hat 9.x, AS, ES, WS, and Debian.

SAFE DHCP now includes the ability to install multiple SAFE modules and to use the combination of modules that best fit unique security requirements Meta IP v5.5 also accommodates expiration rules for entries in the MAC Address database and features a more intuitive user interface for managing SAFE DHCP and its modules.

About MetaInfo

MetaInfo provides Secure IP Foundations for network infrastructures with its market leading Meta IP product for IP address, DNS, and DHCP management. MetaInfo offers Secure Addressing Foundation Extensions for DHCP (SAFE DHCP) that adds new layers of prevention and protection against viruses, worms, and other network threats. With Meta IP and its SAFE DHCP solutions customers increase stability, add security, reduce risks, and lower the total cost of IP network ownership.

The company's U.S. headquarters are in the historic Pioneer Square district of downtown Seattle, Washington. For further information, please contact MetaInfo by phone at 206-674-3700 or visit us on the web at www.metainfo.com.