Intelligent Decisions to Provide CREDANT Technologies Data-at-Rest Encryption Solutions under the Government

Team Solution Protects Federal Mobile Data; Provides Audit Trail to Security and Compliance with OMB Mandates

ASHBURN, Va., and DALLAS, Tx. – June 21, 2007– Intelligent Decisions, Inc., a leading provider of IT hardware, software, manufacturing, and service solutions to the Federal government and Fortune 1000 customers, and CREDANT Technologies, a leading provider of mobile data protection solutions, today announced that Intelligent Decisions has secured a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to provide CREDANT’s data-at-rest (DAR) encryption solutions under the U.S. Department of Defense Enterprise Software Initiative (DoD-ESI) and U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal SmartBUY program.

The SmartBUY program supports effective enterprise-level software management through the aggregate buying of commercial software government-wide. The SmartBUY BPA award to Intelligent Decisions and CREDANT Technologies announced today is the culmination of the GSA-DoD partnership to carry out OMB and DoD policy directives (OMB-M-06-16, June 23, 2006; DoD Policy Memorandum, August 18, 2006). These directives instruct agencies to adopt measures and select DAR encryption products to protect personally identifiable information stored on laptop computers, desktop computers, tablet PCs, smart phones, personal digital assistants, and removable storage devices.

All Federal civilian agencies and DoD departments, as well as state and local governments, can purchase DAR encryption solutions and services under the Intelligent Decisions BPA. Although the focus is on acquisition of products and maintenance, agencies will also be able to acquire professional services in support of product selection, evaluation, and deployment efforts.

“Intelligent Decisions has served as a trusted advisor to the Federal government on the evaluation, deployment, and integration of cyber security solutions for more than 15 years, and numerous Federal customers have already selected CREDANT as their provider of choice for securing data-at-rest,” said Intelligent Decisions’ President and Chief Executive Officer, Harry Martin, Jr.  “Today’s award significantly strengthens our ability to help government organizations comply with OMB and DoD directives to protect personally identifiable information while integrating state-of-the art IT solutions with services to address the growing threats to Federal data assets.”

CREDANT’s mobile data protection solutions secure laptops, desktops, smart phones, PDAs, and external media from a single management interface.  By uniquely integrating with enterprise directories for centralized security policy management, the CREDANT’s Intelligent Encryption-based approach uses “policy-based encryption” technology to ensure that data that must be encrypted is encrypted wherever it is stored, and what does not need to be encrypted – the operating system, applications, and empty space – is not.  This approach also protects against the internal and external threat of a data breach, dramatically reduces management complexity, and provides an extensive audit trail for compliance reporting.

 “Ensuring the security and integrity of sensitive government data is essential to helping agencies meet their mission-critical requirements,” said Bob Heard, founder and chief executive officer of CREDANT. “We look forward to working with Intelligent Decisions and Federal agencies to deliver easy-to-deploy, transparent, centrally managed encryption solutions that meet OMB mandates and help agencies ensure mobile data security.” 

About Intelligent Decisions, Inc.
Intelligent Decisions, Inc. (ID) is one of the fastest growing systems integrators in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Founded by Harry Martin in 1988, ID provides a broad range of IT hardware, software, manufacturing and service solutions to the Federal government and Fortune 1000 customers. ID also offers comprehensive professional services capabilities including IT security, data lifecycle management and networking solutions. ID is headquartered in Ashburn, VA and ranked on both the VARBusiness 500 and GovernmentVAR 100 listings. For more information, visit www.intelligent.net or call toll-free 800-929-8331.

About CREDANT Technologies
CREDANT® Technologies is the market leader in mobile data protection solutions. CREDANT’s secure mobility solutions preserve customer brand and reduce the cost of compliance, enabling business processes to quickly and safely “go mobile.” CREDANT Mobile Guardian is the only centrally managed mobile data protection solution that provides 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 mobile end-points. 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 CEO Bob Heard 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 http://www.credant.com/.

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