Solidcore Establishes Compliance Practice

CTO E. John Sebes to Lead Effort to Help Companies Build Sustainable Compliance Through IT Control

PALO ALTO, California — August 30, 2005 — Solidcore Systems, Inc., the leading developer of IT control solutions, today announced the establishment of its Compliance Control practice under the leadership of Chief Technical Officer E. John Sebes. The practice is focused on helping corporations build sustainable regulatory compliance through total control of IT infrastructure and operations.

"Since the enactment of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other government and industry regulations, public companies have been under tremendous pressure to demonstrate that corporate business processes and results, from financial reporting to IT management, are accurate and verifiable," said Mr. Sebes. "Efforts to date have been burdensome and costly. Solidcore provides best practices and innovative solutions that lower the cost of being compliant while improving internal change-control processes."

To ensure that IT systems are performing only the tasks they are authorized to perform, many corporations have adopted solutions that periodically monitor the state of enterprise servers in order to identify any unauthorized changes, inadvertent or malicious, that may have been made. If unauthorized changes are found, steps are taken to correct them. While this reactive method can satisfy a company's annual external auditors, the cost is prohibitively high due to the reactive, manual and recurring nature of the process.

Solidcore is addressing the challenge of meeting compliance regulations by providing IT controls to enforce change-management policies and procedures and to maintain and document the authorized state of business-critical servers. Solidcore software ensures closed-loop verification by reconciling authorized changes with deployed changes and provides a continuous audit trail for all deployed changes. In addition, Solidcore enforces change processes by ensuring that no unauthorized changes can be made outside of the established process. Solidcore integrates with a wide range of popular change management tools to ensure that they are the categorical systems of record.

About E. John Sebes, CTO at Solidcore
With over 17 years experience in computing and information security, Mr. Sebes has been the architect, designer, advisor, reviewer, and analyst on projects ranging from highly regulated national-level infrastructure projects to product design support for commercial vendors. He was the leader of Integral Security Consulting (ISC), providing services for technology start-up companies, venture capital firms, government agencies, and financial services firms. Prior to ISC, Mr. Sebes spent 10 years at Trusted Information Systems (TIS), engaged in leading-edge R&D, and then assumed the role of CTO at NAI Labs, the R&D division formed when Network Associates acquired TIS. He provided much of the seminal R&D in distributed computing security and authored the CORBA standard on firewalls and object protocols.

About Solidcore Systems
Solidcore Systems is the leading provider of IT control solutions that facilitate an organization's ability to gain cost-effective and categorical control of its IT operations and realize immediate and tangible value in security, compliance, and change control. Leading Fortune 500 companies and major U.S. government agencies utilize Solidcore solutions. Solidcore Systems is a private, venture-backed enterprise software company with its headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Please call toll free (888) 210-6530 or visit www.solidcore.com for more information.

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