SAN JOSE, CA and TALLAHASSEE, FL — January 31, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — SPYRUS, Inc., an innovator in security products and solutions, today announced that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) has expanded its use of the SPYRUS Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solution and has tripled its number of certificate licenses. The system enables authentication of law enforcement personnel accessing sensitive databases.

Under the terms of the agreement, FDLE will expand the number of licenses from 26,000 digital certificates issued to more than 80,000. FDLE originally installed the SPYRUS PKI System v5.0 solution in 2001 and grew the number of licenses from 10,000 to 26,000. With this new license agreement, FDLE increased the number of licenses, upgraded to the latest SPYRUS PKI version (v6.5) and added the LYNKS Series II Hardware Security Modules to provide security and authentication services for more than 300 law enforcement agencies across the state. The SPYRUS PKI is tailored for use with FDLE’s network access control rules through SPYRUS’ patent pending programmable policy module technology, and simplified management.

“We have found that the SPYRUS PKI is the best fit to meet our unique requirements for information sharing between law enforcement agencies and officers in Florida,” said Acting CIO Don Sherman of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. “The flexibility of implementation and high assurance security made this the ideal choice for our environment.”

The SPYRUS PKI System was originally installed as part of a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) sponsored initiative conducted in cooperation with FDLE. The SPYRUS PKI updates were deployed state-wide via the State of Florida’s frame relay network (Criminal Justice Network or CJNet). With more than 300 law enforcement agencies connected to the network supporting more than 800 locations from the Georgia border to Key West, FDLE has standardized on SPYRUS as the security platform for accessing a broad range of data and applications by all authorized Florida law enforcement officials.

“We are pleased that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has again invested in SPYRUS as its security vendor of choice for PKI,” said Tom Dickens, Chief Operating Officer, SPYRUS. This deployment is exactly the sort of environment for information sharing that that SPYRUS PKI System was designed to secure. We are pleased to play such a strong role in data protection for FDLE.”

FDLE also chose to upgrade to the SPYRUS LYNKS Series II Registration Authority (RA) and Certificate Authority (CA) HSMs which support the highest strength commercial algorithms available today, termed Suite B, by the U.S. Government. These HSMs protect the vital key generation and secure the entire infrastructure. This product has been certified as meeting the U.S. and Canadian Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 requirements for protecting corporate-critical information. FIPS 140-2 is a standard developed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada, known as the Cryptographic Module Validation Authorities. These groups are members of the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) which promotes using validated cryptographic technology in the networks of government agencies.


About SPYRUS, Inc.

SPYRUS has provided innovative security products and solutions for the information security market since its inception in 1992. Our primary product lines of Hardware Security Modules, Rosetta Client Authentication (smart cards, USB tokens and readers), Hydra PC Series II and Identity Management products (Signal Identity Manager and SPYRUS PKI) meet customer needs for high-assurance security. SPYRUS, Inc. is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

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