Channel partnership greatly expands footprint for CREDANT’s endpoint data protection solution and targets companies seeking to better meet stringent compliance regulations

SAN FRANCISCO, RSA Conference 2008, April 8, 2008 – CREDANT Technologies®, the market leader in endpoint data protection solutions, today announced a premier channel agreement with FusionStorm, a national provider of IT products, professional, and managed services, naming the firm a CREDANT Focus Partner™. Under the agreement FusionStorm will sell, implement and optimize the CREDANT Mobile Guardian endpoint data security solution. The power of FusionStorm’s 150+ sales executives and engineers provides customers with enhanced access to sales and implementation resources. Please visit CREDANT Technologies at Booth # 341 at the RSA show to learn more about this and other news.

This FusionStorm-CREDANT solution benefits companies in need of endpoint data protection on all devices – from laptops and desktops to PDAs and smartphones, iPods and all external media. All these devices now routinely carry sensitive corporate and customer data and compliance requirements dictate that companies must prove that data is protected at all times.

CREDANT’s Intelligent Encryption and its new Full Data Encryption2 provide the foundation for CREDANT's policy-based approach to endpoint data protection. CREDANT Mobile Guardian protects the entire operating system except files needed to boot the machine, and therefore, unlike full disk encryption, it does not require preboot authentication. This allows the software to work with customers’ existing internal operations and applications without requiring the radical changes other solutions need. This approach protects against both insider and external threats in a way that is transparent to the end user, increasing its appeal and adoption over other approaches to data protection.

“We chose CREDANT as a solution for our customers based on it’s flexible, centrally managed architecture, its ease of use and the fact we can ensure customer compliance without impacting their operations,” said Lantz Litchfield, FusionStorm’s Vice President of Professional Services. “In addition, by bringing CREDANT Mobile Guardian into our ecosystem of solutions, we can deliver an even broader endpoint security offering, which is something customers are asking for.”

“I am pleased that FusionStorm has chosen to offer our solution to customers who can now secure all data, prove it is secure and avoid the need for breach notification,” said Scott Nagel, Senior Director of CREDANT Technologies Channel Program. “FusionStorm makes this convenient for enterprises who like having a trusted security advisor and they can add CREDANT’s Mobile Guardian to their existing service agreements.”

FusionStorm will also offer a solution from CREDANT to provide protection and compliance auditing for businesses that store personally identifiable information such as credit card data. This data must be protected under the new Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, (PCI-DSS). The law takes affect in June 2008.

Additionally, FusionStorm and Credant are engaging in a special series of security seminars across the country aimed at helping organizations understand today’s security threats.

Josh Krasnegor, FusionStorm’s Vice President of Marketing noted, “This quarter we are launching a special, focused security education series for our existing clients and for other companies who have already expressed interest because of the major security threats they are facing.”

Select CREDANT Technologies channel partners such as FusionStorm are recognized as a FocusPartner™. This is the highest tier in the channel program and occupied by firms who have proven security expertise and a history of delivering value added services to customers.

CREDANT Mobile Guardian is available now to FusionStorm customers. For more information call 800-228-8324 at FusionStorm, or 886-273-3268 or email CREDANT Technologies at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

About FusionStorm
FusionStorm -- "Making Technology Work" -- is a leading national provider of IT products, professional services, support contract services and 24x7 managed services for enterprises of all sizes. The company assists organizations by providing complete solutions for system infrastructure, storage, networking, voiceover-IP communications, security, database, disaster recovery, managed hosting and remote managed services, both on-site and in the data center. FusionStorm is VARBusiness’ VAR of the Year for 2006/7. FusionStorm offices include San Francisco (HQ), Santa Clara, Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Albuquerque, Chicago, Dallas, Cincinnati, Bethesda, Boston, and Tampa. The company's web site is www.fusionstorm.com and the toll-free phone is 800.228.TECH (8324). FusionStorm’s core technology partners include: Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, EMC Corporation, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, VMware, Opsware and Hewlett Packard.

About CREDANT Technologies
CREDANT Technologies is the market leader in endpoint data protection solutions that are critical components of an endpoint protection platform. CREDANT’s data security solutions preserve customer brand and reduce the cost of compliance, enabling business to “protect what matters.” CREDANT Mobile Guardian is the only centrally managed endpoint data protection solution providing strong authentication, intelligent encryption, usage controls, and key management that guarantees data recovery. By aligning security to the type of user, device and location, CREDANT ensures the audit and enforcement of security policies across all computing endpoints. Strategic partners and customers include leaders in finance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology, and services. CREDANT was selected by Red Herring as one of the top 100 privately held companies and top 100 Innovators for 2004, and was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2005. Austin Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, Intel Capital, and Cisco Systems are investors in CREDANT Technologies. For more information, visit www.credant.com.

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