Firstrade Chooses Authentium's SafeCentral to Protect Investors from Online Threats

The No. 1 Rated Online Brokerage Is Issuing SafeCentral to
Investors to Stop Cybercrooks Cold
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.--(Business Wire)--
Firstrade Securities Inc. has chosen Authentium's SafeCentral to
protect its customers from virtually all known and unknown threats
online, including keyloggers, spyware, viruses, and more. In stark
contrast to conventional antivirus, antispyware, and firewall
software, SafeCentral's patent-pending technology lets investors trade
and conduct other transactions over the Internet in absolute privacy
and safety, even if their computers are already infected with malware.
In fact, recent tests by Information Risk Management, an independent
information risk consultancy, concluded that SafeCentral stops online
fraud before it starts by preventing all forms of data interception.
Firstrade's IT experts reached the same conclusion.

"We conducted extensive testing, and are convinced SafeCentral is
the most effective platform for protecting our customers from ID theft
and fraud while trading online," says C.S. Hsia, VP of Business
Development for Firstrade Securities. "Antivirus software and other
security tools require constant updates to provide security, and even
then, they can and are compromised by ever-evolving malware tricks.
SafeCentral takes a different approach that doesn't rely on constant
updates to keep security strong. You just run SafeCentral and your
session is secured. We're committed to providing customers with the
best tools to protect their assets. With SafeCentral, we accomplish
that goal."

SafeCentral uses Authentium's patent-pending TSX technology to
create a virtual "concrete bunker" that safeguards investors from the
most sophisticated techniques used by Internet thieves. These threats
include viruses, spyware, Trojan horses, keyloggers, phishers,
man-in-the-middle attacks, screen scrapers, DNS poisoning, Wi-Fi
interception, and countless other orchestrated attacks.

Moreover, with SafeCentral, investors don't have to change the way
they work, learn confusing computer terms that appear in pop-ups,
configure complicated control panels, or waste hours scanning for
threats that have already compromised their systems. With just a
click, SafeCentral's patent-pending protection shields investors'
desktops from the dark threats of the Internet without limiting
flexibility, functionality, or usability. It operates as an on/off
switch for security, powered by three principal components:

-- The SafeCentral Desktop locks down desktops by acting as a
traffic cop, continuously monitoring Windows "system calls."
When spyware, keyloggers, screen capture agents, or other
malicious software makes a system call, the SafeCentral
Desktop disallows it. Only verified, safe computer processes
are allowed.

-- The SafeCentral Browser "blacks out" snooping by man or
machine using virtualized sessions that are invisible to
keyloggers, spyware, and other malware. The SafeCentral
Browser assumes the PC is already compromised by malware, and
virtualizes the Web browser to isolate it within the
potentially compromised environment. This hides 100 percent of
data-keystrokes, screens, data, URLs, histories, account
credentials, and more from all manners of eavesdropping,
creating a truly private environment. Customers can trade,
search, and communicate with confidence.

-- The SafeCentral Portal provides a secure on-ramp to
Firstrade.com and more than 15,000 other popular destinations.
The SafeCentral Portal's DNS technology connects customers
only to authentic Web sites, preventing malicious agents from
redirecting customers to phishing pages, man-in-the-middle
attacks, and other criminal spoofs.

"SafeCentral is a complementary layer of protection that bolsters
Firstrade's security for its customers," says Doug Brunt, CEO of
Authentium. "Unlike options that only protect users on the Web,
SafeCentral protects users at the desktop level as well--creating a
complete solution that stops identity theft before it starts.
Firstrade has always been dedicated to using the most innovative
technologies to deliver the best customer experience possible, so we
are happy to be working with them on providing the greatest level of
security to customers."

SafeCentral is now available to all Firstrade customers and is
free for the first year of service. To sign up, visit
www.firstrade.com or www.safecentral.com.

ABOUT AUTHENTIUM, INC.

Authentium develops software and services to protect consumers in
a connected world. The company's core technologies (SDK's) are used by
leading software providers including Google, Microsoft, and Symantec
to create or enhance industry-leading computing security products.
Additionally, Authentium's same core security expertise is also
expressed in the continued development of Command Antivirus, the award
winning Antivirus product from Authentium. The company was
incorporated in 2000, and is located in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. For
more information, visit www.authentium.com.

ABOUT FIRSTRADE SECURITIES INC.

Founded in 1985, Firstrade is a pioneer in online trading and
leads the brokerage industry with a combination of low costs and a
high level of customer service for the value-driven investment
portfolio containing stocks, bonds, mutual funds and options.
Firstrade offers stock trades at the highly competitive rate of $6.95
each and is the only online broker that has both Traditional Chinese
and Simplified Chinese Language websites and customer support. For
more information on Firstrade and promotion terms, visit
www.firstrade.com.

Authentium, Inc.
Press contact:
Gregory FCA
Kristy Lash, 610-642-8253, ext.144
Kristy@GregoryFCA.com

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