TNT Offers Free Identity Now! Auditing Services for Higher Education

ATLANTA, GA –– October 4, 2005 – Trusted Network Technologies, Inc. (TNT), a leading developer of identity audit and control solutions, today launched its Identity Now! for Higher Education program, offering free identity audit services for qualified universities and colleges. This limited engagement offers the equivalent of $10,000 in TNT identity audit services. Upon conclusion of the engagement, TNT will provide valuable audit reports which will show who is connecting from where with which critical servers and applications.

"We’re extending this offer to educational institutions to help them assess their IT environments," said Steve Gant, founder and CEO of TNT. "The value of this program goes beyond the TNT identity audit services engagement. We’re providing them with a complete picture of how and when identified and unknown users (students, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni and others) are interacting with critical IT assets and applications."

At no cost to qualified participants, TNT will deploy its Identity solution in Audit Mode in a specified IT environment for two weeks, collecting and correlating interactions among all users, devices, servers and applications. At the conclusion of the Identity Now! engagement, TNT will deliver reports that show which students, professors, teachers, administrators and researchers are interacting with resources that contain personnel files, academic records, financial data and other sensitive information.

"TNT has been with UNC Charlotte every step of the way in our deployment of the Identity solution. They have been an outstanding resource and partner," said Carter Heath, IT Security Officer with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. "Like many universities we’re looking for ways to implement seamless access control to critical application resources and at the same time gather vital audit information of that access in a way that doesn’t impact the users. Identity makes that process much easier, and the Identity Now! program is a low-risk way to gather valuable identity-based interaction information, while providing relevant product feedback."

Identity is a simple, affordable software and appliance solution that lets organizations see, control and prove who’s interacting with any server or application, anytime. It extends the concept of identity beyond users to the entire IT environment — including workstations, servers, applications and groups. Running in Audit Mode, Identity clearly reports who is interacting from where with specific resources and assets. The identities are permanent and unalterable, and any user without an identity can’t see an organization’s assets at all. Identity works with existing hardware and software, reducing costs and speeding implementation without re-engineering the IT environment. TNT will deploy Identity in Audit Mode for Identity Now! program participants, which will track and monitor activity but will not create or enforce access and control policies.

For more details about Identity Now! and how to qualify, visit www.trustednetworktech.com/IDNow.

About Trusted Network Technologies, Inc.
Trusted Network Technologies (TNT) provides identity audit and control solutions that enable companies to see, control and prove every user interaction with every computer, server and application. Utilities, retailers, government agencies, universities and Fortune 1000 companies rely on TNT solutions to save them millions in complying with Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulatory mandates, prevent the debilitating risk of exposing confidential information, and extend new services securely to partners and customers. TNT solutions enable these identity-driven companies to automate identity auditing and control as a fundamental business function, simultaneously strengthening and simplifying identity management and enforcement. For more information, visit www.trustednetworktech.com or call 888.566.9143.

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