FIBERLINK

New Service Increases Security, Raises Productivity and Controls Costs

November 10, 2003

BLUE BELL, Pa. – Nov 10, 2003 – Fiberlink, the leading provider of comprehensive, policy-centric remote access solutions for enterprises, today introduced its newest service offering, Extend360. Built on Fiberlink's next-generation remote access platform, Dynamic Network Architecture™ (DNA), Extend360 delivers the industry's most complete solution by integrating unrivaled security and management features with ubiquitous global access. For the first time, Global 2000 enterprises can dramatically reduce exposure to business risk associated with remote access through a single intelligent interface delivering Persistent Policy Enforcement™. This always-on policy feature complements Fiberlink's new Restricted Application Protection™, which inoculates against viruses penetrating the enterprise perimeter via instant messenger (IM) and other peer-to-peer (P2P) applications.

"Integration and management are the weakest links of enterprise security. Companies often patch together firewalls, intrusion detection, anti-virus software and VPNs, creating a house with steel doors and paper walls," said Matthew Kovar, Director of Security Solutions & Services for the Yankee Group. "Extend360 from Fiberlink eliminates the need to rely on a piecemeal strategy for remote access by integrating superior connectivity, security and management into a single point of control for endpoint security."

For road warriors, Extend360 brings together all necessary connection and security elements of remote access into a single user interface, ensuring seamless connectivity and total compliance with corporate policies regardless of users' access type, device or location. Extend360 takes the guesswork out of mobile connectivity, automatically presenting users one-click access to optimal connection options and offering transport-specific policy enforcement and contextual help.

Extend360 puts endpoint security and management firmly into the hands of IT, enabling them to extend business policies in real-time to remote workers through the Extend360 client via the Fiberlink Policy Center. This Web-based management portal provides CIOs and IT managers with a centralized administrative environment to define corporate policy and control access to resources based on an employee's role, location and connection technology. Centralized policy management provides dynamic control to keep IT one step ahead of the security and access issues that mobility presents.

"Three years ago, Fiberlink recognized the critical role of remote access in enterprise productivity and took aggressive steps to develop the industry's first managed secure endpoint solution," said Jim Sheward, chief executive officer of Fiberlink. "Powered by the DNA Platform™, Extend360 integrates policy-based remote access into a single intuitive interface to deliver unprecedented management and control of enterprise remote connectivity."

360 Degrees of Connectivity, Protection and Management

With Extend360 running on Fiberlink's DNA Platform, customers can leverage the greater benefits of a platform-based architecture and enjoy a truly enterprise-class remote access solution that will help raise productivity, mitigate security threats and control costs. Below are just a few of the innovative new features that are part of the Extend360 service offering:

• Active Transport Notification™: Patent-pending automatic detection and display of all available and approved wire line and wireless options to the mobile user makes connecting a snap.

• Centralized Policy Administration: Enables IT to be in total control of mobile workers with dynamic, centralized policy management of connectivity options, service plans, security policy, user interface preferences and software update rules.

• Persistent Policy Enforcement™: "Always on" security policy enforcement begins at operating system startup to enforce corporate security and acceptable use policies. This patent-pending capability provides total protection, even when the worker is not online.

• End-to-end Credential Encryption: Patent-pending end-to-end encryption of user name, password, and Windows NT/200x domain information, leveraging RSA's BSAFE advanced cryptography methods, protects the enterprise from fraud and service theft.

• Intelligent Software Updates: Unobtrusive software updates leverage advanced bandwidth-throttling algorithms, resumable updating and SSL encryption to ensure mobile workers stay up-to-date and secure.

• Business Intelligence Reports: Provides deep visibility into security policy enforcement, usage and connection and device performance to help companies make better business decisions.

• Intelligent VPN Selection™: Patent-pending performance feature automatically connects the mobile worker to the closest VPN concentrator, reducing latency and optimizing available bandwidth.

• Restricted Application Protection™: Ensures compliance with IT policies, lowers legal exposure and reduces the risk of virus outbreaks by enabling IT to control the use of certain applications (e.g., instant messaging, file sharing, games, etc.). The advanced security features of Extend360 put control of employee-deployed applications into the hands of IT, enabling IT managers to allow or disallow applications based on corporate policies or specific usage parameters to best protect the network. For example, IT can now enforce acceptable use policy based on connection type, tearing down IM sessions over a potentially vulnerable Wi-Fi link.

Pricing and Availability

Available immediately, Extend360 provides the most complete set of access, security and administrative tools available on the market today. Exact pricing depends on the number of users, length of contract and service set.

About Fiberlink

Fiberlink is a leading provider of secure remote access solutions, unifying worldwide remote access, management and enforcement within existing IT policy. Fiberlink addresses the growing infrastructure complexities of enterprise access brought on by the demands of an expanding business ecosystem. From employees to partners, remote offices to extranets, dial-up to wireless to broadband, Fiberlink allows enterprises to capitalize on virtually any extended business opportunity. Multi-network redundancy, best-of-breed application services and support, the lowest TCO and the least impact on IT help make Fiberlink a critical business partner. For the first time, companies can manage every aspect of remote, mobile or wireless access with the same rigorous policy enforcement as for local users.

With over 300,000 corporate users, analyst firms such as Gartner, Burton Group and Yankee Group recognize Fiberlink as a leader and innovator in the industry. Customers such as General Electric, BMC Software, Computer Sciences Corporation, Royal Caribbean, The Gillette Company, and Sun Healthcare prove it with their business. Headquartered in Blue Bell, Pa., Fiberlink has offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Kristen Muckleroy
Fiberlink Communications
kmuckleroy@fiberlink.com
215/793.6541

Kristina Osterling
A&R Partners for Fiberlink
kristinao@arpartners.com
212/905.6155

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