Application Security, Inc. Awarded U.S. Patent

Company’s Innovation Enables Users to Efficiently Leverage Encryption for More Effective Database Security

NEW YORK, October 22, 2007 - Application Security, Inc., the leading provider of database security solutions for the enterprise, today announced that the company has been awarded a patent for database encryption. United States Patent 7,266,699 titled, “Cryptographic Infrastructure for Encrypting a Database,” provides a simple, systematic method for storing data in a relational database management system that substantially eliminates or reduces the challenges associated with the encryption of non-relational data.

The newly patented Application Security, Inc. invention gives database administrators (DBA’s) the ability apply modern cryptography to the database systems they administer. It provides a transparent encryption infrastructure, which – via a graphical user interface – allows DBAs to select the columns within the database they’d like to encrypt and choose the algorithm they’d like to apply. DBAs can select encryption strength, leveraging a graphical console that allows the creation of working code with simple point-and-click functionality. Database triggers and views are automatically created and implemented with this approach to efficiently encrypt and decrypt data with minimal impact on database performance; to securely manage multiple encryption keys; and to grant and revoke cleartext access to a data column.

“We are honored to be granted such distinction, and to be recognized for our innovation. Deployed effectively, encryption is a powerful safeguard and a key component of a comprehensive security posture,” said Ted Julian, vice president of marketing and strategy for Application Security, Inc. “This patent reinforces our commitment to providing the most comprehensive database security technology, empowering enterprises to ground their security and compliance efforts in the databases that drive their businesses.”

Application Security, Inc.’s DbProtect™ is the industry’s only complete database security solution. Representing an unmatched approach to database security, DbProtect allows companies to extend to databases the proven vulnerability management lifecycle currently used to secure networks and general-purpose hosts – providing total coverage of, and real-time context for, all database activity. DbProtect secures an enterprise’s information assets and bolsters compliance initiatives in order to protect data privacy and control access to that data.

About Application Security, Inc.
Application Security, Inc. (www.appsecinc.com) is the leading global provider of database security solutions for the enterprise.  Application Security, Inc’s integrated security solutions have helped over 900 global organizations proactively secure their databases from internal and external threats while also ensuring that they meet or exceed regulatory compliance and audit requirements.  The company’s DbProtect™ solution is the industry’s only offering to combine database discovery, vulnerability assessment, activity monitoring, intrusion detection, auditing, compliance and encryption to ensure complete database security.

DbProtect is a trademark of Application Security, Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

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