RENO, Nevada—Bytware, Inc., today announced the release of the latest version of its network and exit point security solution, StandGuard Network Security 3.0. The new version is a major upgrade that once again revolutionizes iSeries security with a wealth of new and enhanced features, while maintaining the unique phased-in approach to security policy. StandGuard Network Security 3.0 expands previous exit point coverage to monitor and protect all exit points that can be used to access data or run commands, securing over 120 server functions. Users can create public and private authorities to the server, server functions, database objects, IFS objects, programs, and commands. StandGuard Network Security 3.0 supports supplemental group profiles and location group profiles.

Reporting has also been enhanced in this new release with 16 different reports to choose from, most providing many types of selection criteria.

Keeping security technology up-to-date also becomes easier with the introduction of automated PTF updates. This popular feature from Bytware’s StandGuard Anti-Virus and Messenger solutions has been added to StandGuard Network Security 3.0.

StandGuard Network Security 3.0 helps organizations address one of the most critical security issues facing us today. Recent security studies show that financial losses due to computer system breaches have increased dramatically in the past several years, with nine out of ten large businesses and government agencies acknowledging system break-ins each year resulting in losses exceeding $200,000 per organization. Two categories—theft of proprietary information and financial fraud—are the most frequent and most damaging types of security failure. According to the studies, up to forty percent of the damage originates from the Internet, but surprisingly, about two-thirds of the attacks come from inside the firewall—by trusted insiders—operating within the corporation. StandGuard Network Security 3.0 provides state-of-the-art tools for guarding against this inside threat.

StandGuard Network Security 3.0 will be available in Q2 2006. For more information about StandGuard Network Security, visit http://www.bytware.com/products/ns/

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