Hitachi ID Systems and ClearPoint Metrics Announce Partnership

Integrated Solution Provides Enterprises with Metrics for Secure Password
Management

BURLINGTON, Mass. and CALGARY, Alberta, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearPoint
Metrics and Hitachi ID Systems today announced a partnership that integrates
Hitachi's ID Password Manager with ClearPoint Metrics' Security Performance
Manager(TM).

"We are very pleased to have Hitachi as a strategic partner," said Jim
Acquaviva, CEO of ClearPoint Metrics. "By integrating with Hitachi ID Password
Manager, we deliver a comprehensive data security metrics offering around
Hitachi's identity management software, allowing organizations to track
adoption, password strength, security incidents, and more. We look forward to
working with them on many joint customer implementations."

With ClearPoint's Security Performance Manager, security executives and their
teams can reliably, confidently, and cost effectively measure, monitor, and
communicate the effectiveness of their information security controls, enabling
them to deliver fact-based evidence supporting their strategic governance,
compliance, and risk initiatives.

ClearPoint Metrics delivers the industry's first purpose-built solution
designed for CIOs, CISOs, and CROs, enabling them to eliminate manual
self-assessments and rely on fact-based performance metrics. ClearPoint's
portfolio of data adapters delivers connections to a large number of critical
security and business applications, including threat managers, anti-virus
incident managers, intrusion detection and prevention, identity and access
managers, asset managers, network/system managers, vulnerability scanners,
vulnerability managers, and patch managers.

"ClearPoint Metrics provides Hitachi ID Password Manager users with the
ability to track and analyze security adoption," said Mike Miazga, VP Business
Development. "This type of metric helps a successful password management
deployment. We're happy to partner with ClearPoint."

Hitachi ID Password Manager (formerly P-Synch), a component of the Hitachi ID
Management Suite, is the premier solution for enterprise password management.
Hitachi ID Password Manager reduces the frequency of help desk calls, improves
user productivity, and strengthens authentication security. Hitachi ID
Password Manager accomplishes this with password synchronization and
simplified administration of other authentication factors, such as hardware
tokens and biometrics. Hitachi ID Password Manager includes connectors to
manage passwords on over 70 kinds of systems and applications.

Hitachi ID Systems is a leading publisher of identity management software. Its
products help organizations strengthen network security, lower IT support
costs and improve user productivity. Hitachi ID customers achieve these
results by implementing automation and self-service processes to more
effectively manage passwords and other authentication factors, to provision
and deactivate user access, and to manage user privileges.

About Hitachi
Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT; TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a
leading global technology company, with approximately 384,000 employees
worldwide. Fiscal 2006 (ended March 31, 2007) consolidated revenues totaled
10,247 billion yen (.8 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems,
products, and services in market sectors, including information systems,
electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials
and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the
company's website at http://www.Hitachi.com.

About Hitachi ID Systems
Hitachi ID Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of identity management
solutions. Hitachi ID Management Suite has been licensed by hundreds of mid-
to large-sized organizations worldwide. Hitachi ID Systems' solutions enable
organizations to effectively manage every aspect of the user lifecycle.
Hitachi ID Management Suite includes Hitachi ID Identity Manager (formerly
ID-Synch), Hitachi ID Access Certifier (formerly ID-Certify), Hitachi ID
Password Manager (formerly P-Synch), Hitachi ID Privileged Password Manager
(formerly ID-Archive), and Hitachi ID Group Manager (formerly ID-Access).

For more information about Hitachi ID Systems, Inc. and its products, please
visit the corporate web site at hitachi-id.com, the product web sites at
Identity-Manager.hitachi-id.com, Password-Manager.hitachi-id.com,
Access-Certifier.hitachi-id.com, Privileged-Password-Manager.hitachi-id.com,
Group-Manager.hitachi-id.com, or call 1.403.233.0740.

About ClearPoint Metrics
ClearPoint Metrics is changing the way organizations drive improvement in IT
and information security initiatives through the use of metrics and
scorecards.

ClearPoint Metrics solutions enable IT and Security executives and their teams
to consistently and reliably measure, monitor, and communicate the state,
business impact, and effectiveness of their IT governance, risk, and
compliance initiatives. Our solutions make it possible to easily access,
aggregate, and fuse together data from any application, server, or network
device, transforming it into useful security performance metric information
leading to higher quality communications and more confident decision making.
Our innovations take the cost and friction out of obtaining the hard facts and
data required for actionable IT and security performance assessments and solid
compliance reviews.

For more information, visit us on the Web at www.clearpointmetrics.com.

SOURCE ClearPoint Metrics

Marci Acquaviva of ClearPoint Metrics, +1-617-456-1901,
macquaviva@clearpointmetrics.com; or Dawn Mallyon, Director of Marketing of
Hitachi ID Systems, +1-403-233-0740 x-324, dawn_mallyon@hitachi-id.com