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Cylink Advances Entry Into Storage Network Security

E-business security provider Cylink Corporation has announced its membership in SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association), an international organization dedicated to delivering storage networking architectures, education, and solutions for the IT community, and in SNIA's Storage Security Industry Forum (SSIF). The SSIF is a cooperative effort among SNIA member companies to address storage security, identify best practices and promote standards-based solutions.

"The Storage Security Industry Forum has a mission of striving to assure that customers' network storage security requirements are being met with existing solutions and standards," according to Mike Alvarado, chairman of the SNIA Storage Security Industry Forum. "The forum accomplishes this through researching and compiling a database of the features, benefits, cost justification, ROI calculation methods as well as the best practices of storage security. Cylink is an ideal participant for the forum because it is committed to delivering solutions which aim to improve the security of vital business processes such as business continuity. We are focused on building enterprise-class network storage security solutions that solve key business challenges and welcome Cylink's energy in this regard."

"Cylink has a long, distinguished history in the network security industry and seeds to leverage its network and encryption expertise in the rapidly growing storage security market. We are well positioned to make significant contributions to storage network security by applying our many years of experience providing robust, high speed network security solutions to blue-chip companies and government agencies where confidentiality and data integrity are paramount," said Bill Crowell, Cylink president and CEO. "Our current products are used in many different environments and can be easily applied in a network storage deployment, including business continuity and disaster recovery applications. Cylink's research and development efforts are focused on incorporating additional network storage-oriented functionality and features into upcoming product releases."

About Cylink

Cylink develops, markets and supports a comprehensive portfolio of hardware and software security products for mission-critical private networks and business communications over the Internet. Since its founding in 1983, Cylink has provided solutions that offer competitive advantages by lowering the cost of deploying and managing secure, reliable private networks, while enabling use of the Internet for trusted transactions with business partners and customers. Cylink's business solution focus areas include Secure Storage Area Networks for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Homeland Security including Critical Infrastructure Protection for Airports and First Responders, and Intellectual Property Protection. For more information about Cylink, please call 408-855-6000 or visit www.cylink.com.

About the SNIA

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit organization, made up of over 300 companies and individuals worldwide spanning the entire storage industry. SNIA members share a common goal: to set the pace of the industry by ensuring that storage networks become efficient, complete and trusted solutions across the IT community. To this end the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For information, contact the SNIA at 650-949-6720 or via e-mail at executivedirector@snia.org, or visit SNIA's Website at www.snia.org.

CONTACT: Charles Baumert, Cylink Corporation, 408-855-6447, cbaumert@cylink.com.