ST-Infonox Signs Strategic Alliance with Safe Ports, Inc; Sam Araki's Risk Assessment, Detection and Interdiction Platform Developed to Counter Unpredictable Threats to Seaports.

SAN JOSE, Calif. & WASHINGTON -- ST-Infonox, the next generation solutions company combating asymmetric threats from terrorism and which is led by former Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space President "Sam" Araki, has signed a strategic alliance with Washington based Safe Ports, Inc.

The alliance will enable ST-Infonox to provide its mission critical security platform (SCOPE(TM) - Syndromic Common Operating Picture for the Enterprise) to seaports in the United States and abroad. The platform detects events, increases information sharing, and improves the response to terrorist threats and other anticipated man-made or natural disasters. ST-Infonox will become the applications engineering arm of Safe Ports, Inc.

Safe Ports, Inc. is a Washington based turnkey security solutions and economic development company supporting ports in the Middle East, South America, Mexico and the United States. Safe Ports is particularly impressed by ST-Infonox' ability to provide seamless situational awareness and a Common Operating Picture Platform as part of its security solutions for seaports, now considered to be particularly vulnerable to threats from terrorism.

"This is an excellent alliance for ST-Infonox, because it enables our risk assessment, detection and interdiction platform (SCOPE), to become an integral part of security solutions for seaports, and allows them to use the most sophisticated systems to evaluate risk on a wider basis than ever before," says Sam Araki. "Through SCOPE, which can easily overlay over an existing enterprise system or replace existing structures, seaports will be able to introduce business operations automation and respond to anomalies before they become a disaster, by using the ultimate methods of risk detection - which we call Syndromic Surveillance."

Safe Ports founder and President Lucy Duncan Scheman commented, "This superb alliance gives Safe Ports and our clients huge technological advantages which we will develop further as we provide the ST-Infonox suite of products to our domestic and international clients. As a single source security solution provider we can now add the ability to empower our clients to deal effectively with the challenge of asymmetric threats such as biological, physical, chemical and environmental, customized to their needs. It will give them advantages, the value of which cannot be measured."

The base technology has been extensively deployed in the financial services industry for over 5 years. In that market, the technology enables a common operating grid to design, develop, deploy and operate large financial networks. These networks facilitate highly available, secure, risk-free transactions of virtually any payment instrument used by consumers. The risk reduction is accomplished through instant and smart decisioning on data that is intelligently accessed from legacy systems and databases. ST-Infonox systems provide real time risk models, working with state, local, international, and private sector organizations. The system is easy to deploy, and for the first time augments business process software with syndromic surveillance, yielding early detection and monitoring capability. From initial briefing, a test pilot scheme can be fielded in three months allowing clients to either add this additional security layer, or replace existing systems.

The President and Chief Executive Officer of ST-Infonox is Minoru "Sam" Araki. As the former President of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, he played a prominent role in the development of CORONA, the first operational photo-reconnaissance satellite space telescope. Earlier this year, he received the highest engineering honor, the National Academy of Engineering Draper Prize, for 'achievements that have altered the course of human history.'

Lucy Duncan Scheman represented the Port of Miami from 1983 to 1986, and is a recognized expert on project management and business development for the US technology industry. Before launching Safe Ports Inc in 2003, her business and government relations firm, Diplomatic Resolutions, worked with leading US technology firms including Cisco Systems, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Lucent, Tyco and Microsoft, as well as the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).