STAMFORD, CT – March 30, 2004 – Protegrity Corporation, the leading technology innovator for data security management, announced today that Secure.Data, the company’s software solution for data encryption and centralized management and auditing of data security policies, now supports DB2 8.2 for AIX 5L and Informix 9.4. for Windows and HP/UX. Secure.Data also supports earlier versions of these databases, as well as Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft SQL Server.

“Our comprehensive support of the heterogeneous enterprise infrastructure is one of the major reasons many companies implement Protegrity’s solution,” said Gordon Rapkin, president and CEO of Protegrity. “Now more than ever, companies must have a single, widespread security solution that encompasses their entire enterprise and offers protection of sensitive data wherever it may reside. Security solutions that offer anything less expose their customers to the type of data theft and fraud we’ve recently seen in the headlines.”

“These latest releases further expand our support for IBM offerings and operating systems.  Secure.Data remains the market leader in data encryption and supporting security features for the IBM platform,” said Ulf Mattsson, Protegrity chief technology officer and a widely recognized expert in data security technology and theory.

Secure.Data’s accelerated search index provides for faster and more flexible searches of encrypted data by eliminating the need to decrypt database tables when searching on encrypted data.  This technology results in dramatically faster executions than other encryption offerings. Secure.Data also helps companies minimize the threat of database intrusion from internal sources by separating data security responsibilities from data administration. This feature, combined with the ability to centralize the establishment, ongoing management, and auditing of security policies, adds an additional level of security and gives companies the assurance of meeting regulatory security requirements.

Corporate customers implement Protegrity’s solutions to centrally define and manage enterprise database security policies and to comply with current and emerging regulations such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (including VISA CISP), as well as California State Bill 1386. Secure.Data selectively encrypts sensitive data at the data-item level for database and storage security. The solution, based on patented security technology, delivers a unique combination of strong data protection and extensive auditing and management reporting capabilities, without impacting existing applications and IT infrastructure.

For more information on Protegrity’s support for DB2, Informix, and other databases, go to www.protegrity.com.  Mattsson will be speaking on data security and encryption at the upcoming annual meeting of the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG), May 22-26, in Denver.
 
About Protegrity

Protegrity Corporation is the leading innovator of data security management. The company’s flagship product, Secure.Data, enables companies to deploy comprehensive security policies that empower management to confidently take responsibility of their sensitive data. With Secure.Data, businesses can mitigate corporate risk and assure compliance with regulatory obligations. Protegrity’s solutions are platform independent and are designed to protect information wherever it resides in today’s highly distributed computing environments.

For more than eight years, Protegrity’s award-winning technology has helped more than 60 customers, including many of the Fortune 100, address and resolve critical security challenges. Protegrity invented the core technology used for data-level encryption and owns key patents for database security and protection. For more information, visit www.protegrity.com.

Secure.Data is a trademark of Protegrity Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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