U.S. GSA Awards CREDANT and Intelligent Decisions Contract to Protect Personally Identifiable Information Stored on Laptops

DALLAS and ASHBURN, Va., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- CREDANT Technologies, a leading provider of mobile data protection solutions and Intelligent Decisions, one of the fastest growing systems integrators in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, today announced that U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded them a contract to protect data stored on all laptops used within the agency. GSA is the third federal government agency in the past three months to contract with both CREDANT and Intelligent Decisions for security software and services that protect mobile data. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) recently awarded similar contracts to CREDANT and Intelligent Decisions.

GSA serves as a centralized procurement and property management agency for the federal government, responsible for more than one-fourth of the government's total procurement dollars. The agency influences the management of $500 billion in federal assets, including 8,300 government-owned or leased buildings and 170,000 vehicles. Under the contract, Intelligent Decisions will implement centrally managed intelligent encryption software from CREDANT combined with services from Intelligent Decisions to secure personnel and other data on laptops.

The White House Office of Management and Budget -- OMB memorandum M-06-16 includes a Security Checklist that recommends best practices for the protection of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as determined by NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology. By partnering with CREDANT and Intelligent Decisions, GSA can cost-effectively support its mobile workforce with the peace of mind that sensitive information is encrypted. CREDANT introduced the industry's first Federal Information Processing Standards -- FIPS 140-2 certified intelligence-based encryption solution for Microsoft Windows that does not encrypt the operating system. This 'intelligent' approach protects against the internal and external threat of a data breach, dramatically reduces management complexity, and provides an extensive audit trail for compliance reporting. The CREDANT solution secures laptops, desktops, tablet PCs, smart phones, PDAs, and external media from a single management interface, while uniquely integrating with enterprise directories for centralized security policy management.

"Our close partnership with Intelligent Decisions is helping a growing number of federal agencies meet the OMB mandate to protect personnel data with encryption," said Chris Ostertag, Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Field Operations of CREDANT Technologies. "GSA now joins OPM and DFAS in securing sensitive mobile information sensitive with CREDANT's policy-based intelligent encryption software."

"Working closely with CREDANT once again, we will enable GSA to quickly meet the OMB directive to protect all personally identifiable information that is stored on agency laptops," said Gino Antonelli, Executive Vice President Sales and Business Development for Intelligent Decisions. "Intelligent Decisions brings technology together with services to securely address the growing threat to federal data assets."

About CREDANT Technologies

CREDANT(R) Technologies is the market leader in mobile data protection solutions. CREDANT's secure mobility solutions preserve customer brand and reduce the cost of compliance, enabling business processes to quickly and safely "go mobile." CREDANT Mobile Guardian is the only centrally managed mobile data protection solution that provides strong authentication, intelligent encryption, usage controls, and key management that guarantees data recovery. By aligning security to the type of user, device and location, CREDANT ensures the audit and enforcement of security policies across all mobile end-points. Strategic partners and customers include leaders in finance, government, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology, and services. CREDANT was selected by Red Herring as one of the top 100 privately held companies and top 100 Innovators for 2004, and was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year(R) 2005. Austin Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, Intel Capital and Cisco Systems are investors in CREDANT Technologies. For more information, visit http://www.credant.com/ .

About Intelligent Decisions

Intelligent Decisions, Inc. (ID) is one of the fastest growing systems integrators in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Founded by Harry Martin in 1988, ID provides a broad range of IT hardware, software, manufacturing and service solutions to the federal government and Fortune 1000 customers. ID also offers comprehensive professional services capabilities including IT security, data lifecycle management and networking solutions. ID is headquartered in Ashburn, VA and ranked on both the VARBusiness 500 and GovernmentVAR 100 listings. For more information, visit http://www.intelligent.net/ or call toll-free 800-929-8331.

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