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First-Ever Inclusion in Major PC Product Paves Way for Secure De-Facto Standard for Remote
Network Log-In Using Dynamic Signature Verification

SAN JOSE, CA (November 15, 1999) - Signature verification technology has come one step closer to commonplace use by millions of mobile computer users, thanks to its inclusion in a Personal Digital Assistant, or PDA, offered by Sharp Electronics. The groundbreaking technology, a product of Cyber-SIGN, Inc., holds great promise as a simple, natural, and economical way for companies to ensure network security via remote PCs, especially PDAs.

Cyber-SIGN's Biometric Dynamic Signature Verification was first included in April 1999 in the Sharp Power Zaurus Series PDAs. Integrated with the system BIOS, it provides pre-OS power-on security for the handheld devices. This use of a Biometric Authentication method in the BIOS of a computer device is an industry milestone - and industry first. Though Power Zaurus PDAs are currently only available in Japan, initial customer interest in the product's signature biometric has been sufficient to prompt widespread attention by manufacturers in the U.S.

Cyber-SIGN's Enterprise system of dynamic signature verification goes far beyond the look or shape of a person's signature. In fact, it tracks four dimensions-speed, style, pressure, and timing-which are absolutely unique to the individual. Fraudulent duplication of all four dimensions is virtually impossible; a written copy of an authorized signature is useless as well. Even more, Cyber-SIGN's technology is affordable and requires no special hardware, other than an inexpensive digitizing tablet or PDA to capture the user's signature.

"Inclusion of Cyber-SIGN's technology by Sharp is a major step forward for Signature Verification technology," said Dennis Quiggle, Business Development Manager for Cyber-SIGN, Inc. "In just three years, Signature Verification has gone from a test-case success to potential practical use in millions of PCs. We're confident the day is just dawning on this exciting technology."

In 1996, engineers at CADIX, the Japanese parent company of Cyber-SIGN, established an Internet industry first by performing the first-ever Signature Verification over the Internet. Since then the technology has been refined and simplified. Standard data packet size today for signature authentication data is not more than 1.5KB, taking usually less than ½ second to verify on a LAN. The company is in the process of releasing a new version requiring only 400-600 bytes of transmitted data. This smaller data set will be especially useful in smartcard integration.

In the Sharp Power Zaurus PDAs, Cyber-SIGN's technology has two functions, to ensure authenticated remote log-on to a company's network, and to prevent unauthorized use of the PDA itself. The company has identified dozens of possible vertical business markets which need secure remote access, including financial, law-enforcement, government, healthcare and more. In fact, Sharp recently sold 5,000 Cyber-SIGN Enterprise-equipped PDAs to a major Japanese apartment construction company. Several insurance companies also showing interest.

"The early use of passwords in the computer industry is clearly ending," says Quiggle. "Passwords can be lost, stolen, forgotten, or shared. Signatures are unique to each individual, plus unlike retinal or fingerprint biometrics, signatures are a time-honored, accepted method of identity verification."

Cyber-SIGN sees the use for its technology multiplying quickly. Already, major consumer products companies Fujitsu and Casio are using Cyber-SIGN Enterprise in various products. Security uses abound, including unscrambling individual secure documents, eCommerce security and more. The company licenses its software for integration into client/server and desktop applications using the Cyber-SIGN Developer's Workshop.

"The market for behavioral biometric identification is about to explode," said Quiggle. "We believe signature verification biometrics will be leading the charge."

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About Cyber-SIGN:

Cyber-SIGN's proprietary technology was first introduced in a non-networked version by CADIX Incorporated of Tokyo, Japan in 1995. Recognizing that Silicon Valley is widely recognized as the world's technology hotbed, CADIX established Cyber-SIGN® in San Jose, California in 1997 to capitalize on the expected explosion in market demand for this exciting technology. Cyber-SIGN's express purpose is to establish the Cyber-SIGN technology as the world's de-facto behavioral biometric industry standard. For more information please contact Cyber SIGN Incorporated at (408)324-1001, info@cybersign.com, or visit them on the Web at http://www.cybersign.com. [FrontPage 挿入 コンポーネント]

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SAN JOSE, CA(November 15, 1999) -- Cyber SIGN Inc., a leading provider of biometric signature verification technology, announced today that Cyber-SIGN® is available for integration with the enCommerce getAccess secure eBusiness portal management solution. Leveraging the capabilities of a pluggable authentication module created by Cyber SIGN, enCommerce will support the Cyber-SIGN biometric dynamic signature verification capability as an alternative user-authentication service to user-passwords - increasing security and trust at the eBusiness portal.

The additional security created through the use of Cyber-SIGN in the portal business by enCommerce is extremely valuable to the financial services, telecommunications, and manufacturing markets.

"The portal business is unique, and securing the portal in a single sign-on way is an enterprise security task that is perfect for biometrics and dynamic signature verification. Trust is the key - and Cyber-SIGN increases trust - unlike passwords or cards which can be lost, stolen, forgotten or shared," Stated Dennis Quiggle, Business Development Manager for Cyber SIGN Inc. "Nothing is more accepted than the handwritten signature. The integration of Cyber-SIGN and enCommerce getAccess to secure the eBusiness portal is a natural."

"We at enCommerce believe that the Internet provides a dynamic medium for companies managing business relationships through enterprise portals. Success in the Internet economy will go largely to those organizations that can effectively use such portals to develop and extend strong eBusiness relationships with customers, partners and employees," said Juan Carlos Colosso, director of product marketing at enCommerce. "The combined enCommerce-Cyber SIGN solution will provide eBusinesses with an authentication method that delivers best-of-breed security while building a unique environment of trust between organization and user."

About Cyber-SIGN
Cyber-SIGN brings the handwritten signature into the information age. When integrated into the portal security infrastructure of enCommerce - paperless and on-line - anyone can use their own handwritten signature for safe, trusted and secure Internet authentication and authorization.

Cyber-SIGN utilizes the data in the dynamics of a person's handwritten signature to biometrically verify a person's identity during the act of signing. The system's four-dimensional dynamic signature verification algorithm examines the changes in speed, style, pressure and timing that are absolutely unique to an individual, and are virtually impossible to duplicate. Because Cyber-SIGN captures all the dynamic characteristics of each signature, fraud is essentially impossible as even a perfectly reproduced copy of a signature is virtually useless. Cyber-SIGN even learns the natural changes of a signature over time, and accommodates the usual slight variations in a handwritten signature.

About enCommerce
enCommerce provides management solutions to companies moving mission-critical functions to the web by providing the essential portal infrastructure of authentication, authorization, and administrative services. By developing products and providing services to secure eBusiness portals, millions of customers, suppliers, partners, and employees can safely and directly access enterprise applications and information. Through its Professional Services division, enCommerce provides consulting services to facilitate rapid application deployment for Global 2000 companies all over the world - customers include Chase Manhattan Bank, AT&T, Mitsubishi Corporation, Bank of America, Nomura International, Prudential Insurance, Quantum Corporation, 3Com Corporation, Sprint, UPS, and VISA International.

For more information, contact Cyber SIGN Inc. by phone at 408/324-1001, or visit the company's Internet Web-site at http://www.cybersign.com.

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About Cyber SIGN, Inc.
Founded in 1997, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cyber SIGN, Inc. is an independent subsidiary of CADIX Incorporated of Tokyo, Japan. The company's Cyber-SIGN system of dynamic signature verification is a simple, natural and economical method for increased computer security and document authorization. A licensed technology that is integrated into client/server (Cyber-SIGN Enterprise) and desktop (Cyber-SIGN Personal) applications, Cyber-SIGN software is marketed worldwide.

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Advanced Signature Verification Plug-in Application Enables Users to Quickly & Easily Make On-Line Electronic Documents Virtually Tamper-proof

SAN JOSE, CA-(November 15, 1999) Cyber SIGN Inc., a leading provider of biometric signature verification technology, announced Cyber-SIGN® for Adobe® Acrobat® 4.0, an advanced family of application plug-ins that seamlessly integrate with Adobe Acrobat to enable users to quickly and easily make important documents virtually tamper-proof.

The first product in the family, Cyber-SIGN Capture for Adobe Acrobat, is scheduled for release in late 1999. The second product, Cyber-SIGN Authenticate for Adobe Acrobat, will follow early in the year 2000.

Based on the acclaimed Cyber-SIGN electronic signature technology and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), the de facto standard for electronically publishing documents, Cyber-SIGN for Adobe Acrobat 4.0 is a unique pen-based system that specifically allows users to embed their handwritten signature into electronic documents to protect them from unauthorized alterations.

"Our new Cyber-SIGN for Adobe Acrobat 4.0 plug-ins will truly bring the handwritten signature into the information age. Now anyone can use their own handwritten signature to authorize and sign paper-less electronic documents on-line. Nothing could be more natural and secure for on-line purchase orders, legal documents, workflow, and medical authorizations," said Mr. Toshiaki Nagai, Chairman of the Board for Cyber SIGN Incorporated. "We believe that the combination of the handwritten signature with the popular Adobe PDF file format is an on-line innovation that may prove to be as important as the introduction of e-mail."

"The combination of the Cyber-SIGN handwritten signature and biometric authentication capability with Adobe Acrobat 4.0 provides an solid solution for organizations that must bridge their paper and electronic document workflows," added Joel Geraci, product manager, Document Solutions Group, Adobe Systems, Incorporated. "Cyber-SIGN is delivering an electronic signature application that broadens the value of Acrobat software within the enterprise. The ability to authenticate and track electronic documents should be as fail-safe as a paper document."

Cyber-SIGN Capture for Adobe Acrobat allows a handwritten signature to be included as an electronic signature in any ACROBAT file, utilizing the signature handling and management features that are built into Acrobat.

Cyber-SIGN Authenticate for Adobe Acrobat utilizes these same features, and in addition utilizes the biometric data in the dynamics of a person's signature to verify that person's identity during the act of signing. The system's four-dimensional dynamic signature verification examines the changes in speed, style, pressure and timing that are absolutely unique to an individual, and are virtually impossible to duplicate. Because Cyber-SIGN Authenticate captures all the dynamics of each signature, fraud is essentially impossible as even a perfectly reproduced copy of a signature is virtually useless. Cyber-SIGN even learns the natural changes of a signature over time, and accommodates the usual slight variations in a handwritten signature.

Cyber-SIGN for Adobe Acrobat 4.0 works with any document created by any application with the ability to print to Acrobat 4.0. Once the document has been created, the user simply clicks on a smart icon and Cyber-SIGN then prompts that user to sign on the document. The signature then becomes a part of the document. Cyber-SIGN also provides users the flexibility to select the location on the document where they would like their signature to be embedded, or the location may be fixed. Additionally, multiple signatures may be added if required, even after the document has been altered, just as is often done on a paper document. In the event that a document is altered, Adobe Acrobat keeps a record of the changes. Changes are also tracked separately every time a signature is added. In the event of a dispute, Adobe Acrobat enables users to compare the altered document with the original to review the changes have occurred, as well as where they have taken place.

Developers can use Cyber-SIGN Enterprise to create applications for electronic commerce, finance, healthcare, security, workflow, and other markets that require non-refutable, tamper-proof documents. Cyber-SIGN Enterprise uses an inexpensive digitizing tablet to capture signatures for verification.

For more information, contact Cyber SIGN Inc. by phone at 408/324-1001, or visit the company's Internet Web-site at http://www.cybersign.com.

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About Cyber SIGN, Inc.
Founded in 1997, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cyber SIGN, Inc. is an independent subsidiary of CADIX Incorporated of Tokyo, Japan. The company's Cyber-SIGN system of dynamic signature verification is a simple, natural and economical method for increased computer security and document authorization. A licensed technology that is integrated into client/server (Cyber-SIGN Enterprise) and desktop (Cyber-SIGN Personal) applications, Cyber-SIGN software is marketed worldwide.

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Advanced Signature Verification Provider Joins Forces with the Industry's Elite to Create a Portal for Biometric Authentication Solutions

SAN JOSE, CA-(November 15, 1999) -- Cyber SIGN Inc., a leading provider of biometric signature verification technology, announced today that Cyber SIGN Inc. has formed a biometric security partnership alliance with BioNetrix. This partnership paves the way for Cyber SIGN's dynamic signature verification software to be included in the BioSEC (Biometrics for Secure Enterprise Computing) infrastructure.

The "BioSEC Certified" framework is supported by the BioNetrix Authentication Suite�E a standard, open platform that enables organizations to manage from one single console disparate authentication technologies, such as passwords, smart cards, tokens, fingerprints, voice verification - and now - dynamic signature verification.

Through the partnership alliance with BioNetrix, the Cyber-SIGN dynamic signature verification will be included in this middleware solution, a solution that enables multiple and layered biometrics. With the inclusion of Cyber-SIGN, the handwritten signature can be easily added as an element of enterprise authentication and security.

"BioSEC certified solutions can now include the most accepted biometric of all - the handwritten signature," said Dennis Quiggle, Business Development Manager for Cyber SIGN Inc. "Using the BioNetrix Authentication Suite, biometric solutions are easy to manage and deploy, offering a central clearing house for customers and resellers that are building enterprise biometric authentication solutions products and services."

"Our ability to quickly install biometrics-based authentication solutions using a single management platform with a single enterprise-wide authentication policy will expedite marketplace acceptance of all biometrics technologies in general," said David Steinberg, Vice President of Sales and Business Development for BioNetrix, and Chair of the BioSEC Alliance. "Customers will benefit because they can focus on matching the right technology to each of their applications."

Cyber-SIGN utilizes the data in the dynamics of a person's handwritten signature to biometrically verify that person's identity during the act of signing. The system's four-dimensional dynamic signature verification algorithm examines the changes in speed, style, pressure, and timing that are absolutely unique to an individual, and are virtually impossible to duplicate. Because Cyber-SIGN captures all the dynamic characteristics of each signature, fraud is essentially impossible as even a perfectly reproduced copy of a signature is virtually useless. Cyber-SIGN even learns the natural changes of a signature over time, and accommodates the usual slight variations in a handwritten signature.

By securing new eCommerce products/services with a BioSEC-certified Cyber-SIGN solution built from the BioNetrix Authentication Suite, developers and their customers will be using the best-of-breed technologies to secure their business applications. Before BioSEC, customers often were limited to "stovepipe" solutions. With BioSEC, users now have a wealth of authentication options, allowing them to select the best solution for their particular business needs today and tomorrow. The BioSEC solutions development kit (SDK) facilitates interoperability and integration, and BioSEC enables customers to choose the right authentication technologies to protect their e-business applications.

Cyber-SIGN brings the handwritten signature into the information age. Now, when deployed in a BioSEC Certified context using the BioNetrix Authentication Suite - paperless and on-line - anyone can use their own handwritten signature for enterprise security..

For more information, contact Cyber SIGN Inc. by phone at 408/324-1001, or visit the company's Internet Web-site at http://www.cybersign.com.

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About Cyber SIGN, Inc.
Founded in 1997, and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cyber SIGN, Inc. is an independent subsidiary of CADIX Incorporated of Tokyo, Japan. The company's Cyber-SIGN system of dynamic signature verification is a simple, natural and economical method for increased computer security and document authorization. A licensed technology that is integrated into client/server (Cyber-SIGN Enterprise) and desktop (Cyber-SIGN Personal) applications, Cyber-SIGN software is marketed worldwide.