Secured Services Bridges Integration Gap between Identity and Access Management; Identiprise Provides Seamless Continuity of Account Provisioning and True Single Sign-On.

NEW YORK -- Secured Services Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SSVC), the Company, a leader in identity and access management (IAM) security software and services, today announced that Identiprise(TM) has achieved an unmatched level of integration for identity life cycle management. Designed from inception as a single, integrated platform, Identiprise establishes seamless continuity between the process of provisioning user accounts and true single sign-on for access management. The result is an IAM solution in which the only action a user needs to make is to choose a single, master username and password, which will be used for automatically signing on to any software applications for which he/she has access rights. Neither the user nor the IT administrator will ever be burdened with requesting, receiving, or managing the multiple usernames and passwords demanded of today.

Identiprise stands in stark contrast to the types of identity management approaches that are seen in the marketplace today. Provisioning products automate the creation of user accounts on target application servers and generate a set of usernames and passwords the individual user is required to manage. Single sign-on products attempt to create a single username and password to represent the user across all applications. In practice, however, these tools fail to achieve their goal, since they create a central store of credentials which is not tied to the provisioning tool's mechanisms.

What other solutions lack is integration of provisioning and single sign-on at an architectural level. By employing an identity vault that is central and common to the entire identity management system, Identiprise automatically binds the credentials created from the provisioning activity to the user's Master identity for true, single sign-on. From the perspective of the end-user and the administrator, creating a new account is equivalent to including it into the single sign-on Master Identity. The Master identity becomes the pivotal element enabling such things as consolidated user activity audit reporting, "one-click" suspension of all access rights on all applications, and "one-click" de-provisioning of all accounts associated with that user.

"This tight coupling of provisioning and access management can empower IT executives to deliver the business benefits long promised by identity management -- comprehensive, auditable control over who has access to what across the enterprise," said Michael Dortch, principal business analyst at Robert Frances Group (RFG). "In addition, true single sign-on enables consolidated audit management, a feature proving critically important as more and more organizations are compelled to demonstrate compliance with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA."

Identiprise enables corporations to transparently and quickly commission a complete identity, access, and audit management system to govern users' digital presence and access rights to corporate applications. As important, Identiprise overcomes traditional barriers to identity and access management deployments by adhering to three architecture design principles: Span, Speed, and Scale. This yields a solution that is highly flexible, deploys rapidly and non-disruptively, and is radically less risky and complex to implement.

"It's challenging to strike a balance between making changes to the infrastructure while focusing on the changes to the desktop environment," said King Moore, president and CEO, Secured Services. "A successful identity management deployment must address both sides of the equation. Secured Services continues to educate companies about how Identiprise uniquely achieves this within the complex IT environments common in enterprises and government organizations."

About Secured Services:

Secured Services is the first single-vendor provider of Secured User Management software and services for the enterprise. Thanks to its Span, Speed, and Scale architecture, Identiprise delivers a comprehensive and easy to install solution for embedding identity, access and audit management infrastructure within complex IT environments. Complemented by services from its Advanced User Security Group, Secured Services enables organizations to protect critical applications, improve the user experience, and reduce operational costs and risks. For more information about Secured Services, please visit: www.secured-services.com, or contact Kelley Joyce, Horn Group [phone], [e-mail] or Bill Arnold, Crosslink Financial Communications [phone].

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