Solidcore S3 Embedded Technology to Provide Enhanced Security for Tacit Networks' Branch Office IT Appliances

OEM relationship combines enhanced control, compliance, and security software with industry-leading Windows-based WAFS appliances

ORLANDO, Florida — October 24, 2005 —Solidcore Systems, Inc., the leading provider of IT control solutions, has announced an OEM agreement at Storage Networking World with Tacit Networks. The deal enables Tacit Networks to leverage Solidcore’s S3 Embedded technology on its Windows-based wide area file services (WAFS) software and appliances, thereby ensuring enhanced security , compliance, and control for its distributed networking customers.

"Solidcore’s S3 Embedded software gives companies the ability to achieve unprecedented security and control of products after they are deployed," said Robert Sandie, EVP of Worldwide Operations at Solidcore. "Tacit Networks pioneered the use of distributed networking technology, and it is very exciting to partner with them to provide innovative solutions for their customers. This agreement is another milestone in our continuing success providing embedded security for the storage marketing."

Tacit Networks will use Solidcore’s S3 Embedded technology, to protect appliances from security threats, including viruses, worms, Trojans, buffer overflows, zero-day attacks, and all other types of unauthorized code execution. Solidcore’s patented technology will provide kernel-level protection for Tacit Networks products, ensuring they are protected from unauthorized tampering, modification and change. Perhaps most importantly, this high degree of security is achieved without impacting standard maintenance and operations.

"Tacit Networks’ branch office IT solutions allow enterprise customers to reduce the server and storage sprawl that has arisen in today’s branch office by extending datacenter resources out to the branch," said Chuck Foley, President at Tacit Networks. "Key to our strategy has been the ability to combine performance, data integrity, and security into a single appliance footprint which slashes cost and complexity. By providing locked-down appliances using Solidcore's technology, we are taking secure appliance deployment to the next level. Combined with a substantial improvement in ease of maintenance, this is very positive for our customers."

Solidcore provides complete protection from all known and unknown risks and internal and external threats that result from developing and deploying embedded systems on open, industry-standard computing platforms such as Windows, Linux, and Java. Embedding Solidification technology into open-standards-based applications and devices allows manufacturers to realize cost efficiencies in development and allows customers to benefit from total control, compliance, and security in deployment.

Solidcore protects and secures devices of all types — ATMs, cell phones, medical instruments, PDAs, point-of-sale terminals, and storage servers, among many others — throughout the network. Once deployed, the software requires no configuration or maintenance. It introduces very little system overhead and has an insignificant footprint in deployment.

About Solidcore
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 to realize immediate and tangible value in change control, compliance, and security. Fortune 500 companies and 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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