Trust Digital Releases “PDASecure Policy Editor” to Give Organizations Ability to Dictate Security Policies of Popular Handheld Palm OS Devices

Fairfax, Virginia, October 25 2001 – Trust Digital LLC, a subsidiary of Applied Technologies, Inc. released an entirely new type of security product today designed to give organizations control over large numbers of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) handheld devices that are proliferating throughout corporate America and the government.

The software, called PDASecure Policy Editor™, is designed to work in conjunction with the company’s PDASecure Enterprise™ security software that was introduced for Palm OS handheld devices late last year. With it installed on a server in a network, and with PDASecure Enterprise™ installed on each PDA, an organization’s security or network administrator can push security policies to every PDA device. It does not matter whether the devices are wirelessly connected to the network or are connected to the network through a personal computer to which they are linked (i.e., “sync’ed”).

“For the first time, an organization can dictate when and how a PDA device can access the network and the data on the network.” Said Kevin Shahbazi, Assistant VP of Marketing for Trust Digital. “Now you can give an individual or groups of individuals specific access rights.”

PDASecure Policy Editor™ can control thousands of devices that use the Palm Operating System (OS) including PDA’s from Palm, Handspring’s Visor, Sony and others. It is the first product available that allows central management of security on these devices.

“Security and access control are now required by many IT organizations.” Said Kevin Shahbazi, Assistant VP of Marketing for Trust Digital. “Security has become such a major issue in light of recent events that intense efforts are underway to control and monitor the widespread use of these popular handheld devices. This is why we pushed the development of our ‘Policy Editor’ product.”

The PDASecure™ product line from Trust Digital, protects PDA’s against internal fraud and theft, sabotage, malicious hacking and helps an organization against legal exposure to the compromise of customer personal data. The PDASecure Enterprise™ and PDASecure Policy Editor™ is also designed to work with the desktop PC security product ForeverSecureÔ also from Trust Digital to provide a total security solution for an enterprise and the devices connected to it. Specific features and functions can be studied in detail at the Trust Digital web site (http://www.TrustDigital.com).

About Trust Digital LLC and Applied Technologies, Inc. (ATI)
Trust Digital LLC was formed as a subsidiary to market and support PDASecureÔ and other data security products developed over a two year period by its parent, Applied Technologies, Inc. (ATI) of Fairfax, Virginia. ATI has over ten years of expertise in network security and is a privately held Value-Added Reseller of GoldMine Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software that also develops third party products as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) for CRM vendors. ATI recently won an award from GoldMine as “Marketer of the Year” and “ISV of the Year” in 2000. Trust Digital is currently co-located with ATI, which is based in Fairfax, Virginia. Information on PDASecureÔ is available at www.trustdigital.com or by calling (703) 246-9198, FAX (703) 246-9496.

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