SCO and Morning Star to deliver security features for businesses using the Internet to support Virtual Private Networks.

Technologies, Inc. today announced a licensing agreement with Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO) to include Morning Star's PPP and Secure Connect(TM) technologies in SCO's new Internet family of products, code-named "Atlas."

Together, they will provide enhanced point-to-point protocol (PPP) and Internet security protection for business using the Internet to support Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and other business-critical functions.

"Internet security is a serious problem for all businesses," said Dave Dawson, CEO of Morning Star Technologies, Inc. "Morning Star Technologies is pleased to be working with SCO to help solve this problem for business customers worldwide."

Morning Star's PPP software, including SecureConnect for Unix, provides SCO's family of Internet products with enhanced connectivity and security, allowing for dynamic IP filtering, intrusion detection, and alert generation, as well as the creation of (VPN) over the Internet.

Richard Treadway, SCO's vice president, Layered Server Products, said, "When you ask Internet Service Providers which vendor provides the most bulletproof PPP implementation, they will almost invariably say 'Morning Star.' In addition, Morning Star offers solid VPN security packages. For those reasons, SCO felt that it was essential to include Morning Star's technologies in SCO's new 'Atlas' family of Internet products."

Security Features

Most importantly, the combination of Morning Star PPP and

SecureConnect for UNIX(TM) technologies will provide SCO

Internet servers with powerful security features, including:

Dynamic Packet Filtering - Allows user to decide what services to

provide and to whom and when those services are permitted.

Adapts to session state information to provide enhanced

perimeter firewall security.

Virtual Private Networking - Encrypts data and hides

true source/destination as it travels across a

public network.

Dial Back Modems - Allows the network to call back for user

verification before granting access.

Security Tokens - Flexible CHAT scripts allow use of security

tokens through the interface.

PAP or CHAP - The first level of defense; a security enhancement

that forces potential users to identify themselves.

VPN Security

Encrypting data with Data Encryption Standard (DES), SecureConnect's VPN hides the content and true source/destination of sensitive data, making it invisible as it moves across the Internet. Using local logs and remote redundant logging protected by encryption, SecureConnect for Unix software's flexible design provides 24-hour surveillance and monitoring of unwanted access attempts and captures complete details of probes, spoofs and other unwelcome entry attempts.

"Morning Star VPN provides better security than most private leased lines because the addresses and data are encrypted. Organizations using private leased lines can only assume they are secure," Dawson said.

Firewall Protection

With Morning Star's SecureConnect packet filtering technology, an SCO Internet server can create a perimeter firewall while securing data as it travels across the Internet. Morning Star's advanced firewall packet filtering technology adapts its structure during execution to open, time and lock the port needed for a given transaction, providing maximum network security. The filter is only open to the applications and services specified by a security policy. All other accesses are prohibited.

Dial-Up Access

The inclusion of Morning Star's PPP capabilities enables an SCO Internet server to also provide dial-up access. Morning Star's PPP also enhances server functionality by providing link-level error detection, asynchronous control character mapping, packet size negotiation at connection time, physical link loopback detection, IP address negotiation and assignment, PPP Addr/Ctl field and protocol field compression, link level authentication by PAP or CHAP, and link status, reliability, and performance monitoring. The server will also be able to detect whether or not the other end supports TCP header compression.

About Morning Star Technologies

Morning Star Technologies, Inc. based in Columbus, Ohio, is a leading provider of innovative communications solutions that allow corporate users to effectively and securely connect to private and public networks. Working with more than 6,000 corporations world-wide, Morning Star, a privately held company, designs, markets and supports standards-based, innovative networking products including communications protocol software, network routers and advanced security products for connecting companies to the Internet as well as connecting branch or remote offices to corporate headquarters. For more information, see Morning Star's home page at: http://www.Morningstar.com.

About SCO

SCO is the world's leading supplier of UNIX server and host systems, and a leading provider of client-integration software that integrates Windows PCs and other clients with UNIX servers from all major vendors. SCO Business Critical Servers run the critical, day-to-day operations of large branch organizations in retail, finance, telecom, and government, as well as corporate departments and small to medium-sized businesses of every kind. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs. For more information, see SCO's WWW home page at: http://www.sco.com. -0-

SCO and The Santa Cruz Operation, are registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. in the USA and other countries. Unix is a registered trademark in the US and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. SecureConnect is a registered trademark of Morning Star Technologies, Inc. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.

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