Exostar Cited by Microsoft for Implementation of 'Business Ready Security' Solution

Exostar Cited by Microsoft for Implementation of 'Business Ready Security'
Solution

ForumPass 4 Delivers Integrated Identity, Access and Security from the Cloud
to Enable Cross-Enterprise Collaboration

HERNDON, Va., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Exostar, the leading provider of secure,
multi-enterprise, on-demand collaboration solutions to the aerospace and
defense (A&D) industry, today announced its ForumPass 4 solution has been
identified by Microsoft as a prime example of Business Ready Security, the
Microsoft enterprise security strategy announced on April 16. Exostar and
ForumPass 4 are featured in a video and case study produced by Microsoft.

Business Ready Security is Microsoft's unique approach to helping companies
achieve their business goals while managing risk and empowering people. The
strategy is based on three fundamental tenets: integrate and extend security
across the enterprise; protect everywhere, yet allow access from anywhere; and
simplify the security experience and manage compliance. The core element of
the strategy is bringing identity and security together, which is precisely
what ForumPass 4 does, according to Douglas Leland, general manager of the
Identity and Security Business Group at Microsoft.

"Exostar balances the needs for protection and access for some of the world's
biggest contractors, including A&D leaders such as BAE SYSTEMS, The Boeing
Company, Lockheed Martin Corp., Raytheon Co., and Rolls-Royce and their
extended communities of trading partners. They provide a secure collaboration
solution that enables the delivery of extremely complex business projects.
ForumPass 4 integrates security, identity and access to control who has
appropriate use of information, while simultaneously protecting that
information from loss or attack," said Leland.

Collaboration in an ecosystem that spans businesses and industries will be a
driver for economic recovery and growth. Security products, standards and
operationalization are vital to overcoming the associated challenges.
Microsoft and Exostar believe that security requires a top-down approach for
the definition and implementation of the necessary policies and processes, as
well as the integration of internal security and collaboration across company
boundaries -- precisely the areas where ForumPass 4 excels.

Exostar leveraged a number of Microsoft products in the development of
ForumPass 4:
-- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides the core
collaboration
engine. Because Office SharePoint Server 2007 is tightly interwoven
with Microsoft Office Professional 2007 and the Windows Vista and
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating systems, ForumPass 4 customers
can maximize the values of their existing infrastructures, and users
can
work within environments and interfaces to which they are accustomed,
raising the level of acceptance.
-- Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint ensures that documents
created and shared within ForumPass 4 don't contain any
out-of-policy content or malicious software.

-- Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) delivers seamless
authentication of users at varying levels of authentication strength
throughout the multi-enterprise ecosystem, while also allowing Exostar
to offer ForumPass 4 as a cloud service. The hosted model relieves
ForumPass 4 customers of the burden of solution deployment,
integration,
testing, training, support and upgrade, as well as partner vetting and
on-boarding, freeing critical IT resources while speeding
time-to-value
and collaboration.

ForumPass 4 originally was designed for the A&D industry, where identity
management, intellectual property protection, and compliance with standards
and regulations are paramount. ForumPass 4's QuickStart package helps
customers rapidly establish their own collaboration groups, configure
libraries of documents, and extend pre-built workflow templates that capture
and automate best practices for crucial business processes. Exostar is poised
to expand into new markets, including Life Sciences and other industries where
secure, multi-enterprise collaboration is a requirement.

"ForumPass 4 provides businesses with the functionality, scalability and
performance they require to effectively share information across their
ecosystem -- internally, and with their partners, suppliers, and customers,"
said Vijay Takanti, vice president of security and collaboration solutions at
Exostar. "As a result, even the most complex programs and projects with
global constituents remain on schedule and on budget, while sensitive
documents and data receive ironclad protection."

About Exostar
Exostar's Trusted Workspace powers secure, multi-enterprise information
sharing, collaboration, and business process integration throughout the
extended value chain. Exostar was founded in 2000 to support the complex
trading needs of the world's largest aerospace and defense companies,
including BAE SYSTEMS, The Boeing Company, Lockheed Martin Corp., Raytheon
Co., and Rolls-Royce. Exostar's identity assurance products and on-demand
business applications reduce risk, improve agility, and strengthen trading
partner relationships and profitability for over 40,000 companies worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.exostar.com.

Media Contact:
Alan Gilbert
Exostar
(703) 793-7735 (o)
(703) 624-4675 (m)
Alan.Gilbert@exostar.com

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Alan Gilbert of Exostar, +1-703-793-7735 (o), or +1-703-624-4675 (m),
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