Press Release

SignaCert Releases 2.0 Version of Enterprise Trust Server

Jun 24, 2008

New version extends capabilities of first-of-its kind independent verification and measurement solution for Enterprise IT management

PORTLAND, OREGON — SignaCert Inc., the leading provider of independent IT control and fine-grained measurement solutions, today announced the release of its Enterprise Trust Server version 2.0. Enterprise Trust Server uniquely delivers improved control by providing deep inspection and fine-grained measurement, revealing how IT systems are deployed and whether or not they match their intended configuration. Release 2.0 includes major new capabilities that enable verification of an extensive library of system characteristics including database schema, registry settings, specific configuration attributes and many more. With the addition of these features, Enterprise Trust Server provides the most complete and comprehensive independent control tool for IT management.

"Looking at what we've built in the past 18 months, I think we have fulfilled our goal of providing the most comprehensive, software verification solution on the market," said Wyatt Starnes, Founder and CEO of SignaCert. "What's really exciting though, is how quickly customers are adopting these methods for their critical IT systems."

Enterprise Trust Server has been designed to work in today's complex and large scale IT environments and regardless of the IT process-provisioning, deployment, remediation, or manual updates — it reveals how systems compare with their desired state. Example problems Enterprise Trust Server helps addresses include:

• Reduce the cost of creating and managing systems to a compliance standard-Prove that your servers are under control and match your specified build.
• Manage to a common image integrity view-Establish and manage a one-to-many reference assembled from known-provenance software measurements, creating effective low noise insight into the production environment.
• Server synchronization-Ensures that key systems and server farms stay aligned to a common reference.
• Disaster recovery-Prove that disaster recovery systems match current the production environment including user specific application details.
• Patch deployment-Prove that patches are deployed correctly to all targeted devices as well as solving for the age old problem of multiple allowable levels in your enterprise environment.
• Virtualization-Ensures that you are operating the correct virtualized environments and that they are configured exactly as you specified over their lifetime.

IT system verification is an emerging method that will revolutionize IT management. By providing deep and unbiased information about how IT systems are configured, Enterprise Trust Server helps manage risk across the IT environment. "The 2.0 release is pivotal. We've been gathering input for nearly 15 months to make sure we deliver the most powerful set of verification capabilities needed by our customers." said Chris Smith, Sr. Software Architect. The 2.0 architecture is designed to allow monitoring and verification of virtually any IT system information with the intrinsic capability to scale to large and complex heterogeneous IT environments.

While traditional system monitoring tools measure hardware, Enterprise Trust Server gives you the same independent controls to verify software across your IT environment helping achieve increased availability, greater control and security.

About SignaCert

SignaCert is the leading provider of end-to-end and partner-based IT compliance solutions based on known-provenance whitelist technology. These methods allow SignaCert's direct customers to rapidly achieve and prove continuous compliance for the systems that deliver critical business services. The SignaCert architecture is designed to seamlessly integrate with existing change processes and continuously monitor critical business services without disruption.

Additionally, SignaCert's OEM and ISV Partners can supply to, or license content from, the SignaCert Global Trust Repository (GTR), adding new and important capabilities to their product offerings. All use cases are supported by a rich repository of vendor-independent software measurements. These "white" or "allow" list methods enable SignaCert's patented technology to be quickly deployed and provide immediate visibility into the actual state of IT infrastructure.

Founded in 2004 by 34-year IT security and compliance industry veteran Wyatt Starnes, SignaCert has assembled a world class team of industry leaders with hands-on IT experience for its executive team, board of directors, and advisory board.

SignaCert's end-customers span a wide variety of industries, including financial services, government, and healthcare.