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MaXware™ Identity Center Previously Received RSA Secured Certification with RSA Access Manager and RSA SecurID®, Enabling Secure Web Access and Stronger Multi-Factor Authentication

ISELIN, N.J. and TRONDHEIM, Norway — August 1, 2006 — Drawing on its success as a pioneer and leader in identity management technologies, MaXware today unveiled its corporate vision for the virtual directory market. Experiencing significant growth in Q1 and Q2 2006, the company's success substantiates growing market adoption of virtualization as a critical component of identity management and security projects.

As an increasing number of businesses turn towards service-enabled infrastructures — including virtualization, service oriented architecture (SOA) and software-as-a-service — it will become essential for organizations to manage and protect multiple types of data across various platforms and applications in order to ensure compliance with privacy regulations and confidentiality policies. Virtual directories are ideally suited to handle this task, providing real-time access to existing data sources without moving data from original repositories. Having anticipated the evolution towards service-enabled infrastructures, MaXware has perfected its Virtual Directory technology and is now providing virtualization services to global organizations worldwide such as GE Healthcare, RLI Insurance and Alcan.

“Successful organizations across all industries share at least two commonalities: they undergo a constant state of planned evolution and they recognize how dynamic technology infrastructures foster competitive business agility,” stated Ståle Svenning, Chief Executive Officer and President of MaXware. “As more organizations place greater real-time demands on their data, they need to be able to rapidly access and manage this information in a safe and secure manner. While traditional identity management solutions rely on fairly rigid directories, virtual directories offer incredible flexibility to meet these needs.”

An identity management pioneer, MaXware developed the industry’s first virtual directory in 1998. MaXware™ Virtual Directory (MVD) pools identity data and other important information from disparate sources and makes it readily available via one secure, readily manageable abstract directory. Logically presenting information from any number of directories and databases, this platform-independent solution gives users customizable views of the data based on access rights and group affiliation. MVD also streamlines configuration, as only one set of parameters is required for access to multiple data stores, enabling businesses to simultaneously update multiple repositories across a business environment.

For more information on the latest version of MaXware™ Virtual Directory (v.8.1), please visit www.maxware.com.

MaXware is the identity management solutions expert helping organizations worldwide achieve simplified identity management and secured access to networks and applications. MaXware provides a comprehensive solution suite and a world-class professional services delivery team for companies to optimize, integrate and evolve their current identity management processes to improve performance and profitability. The company’s identity management products are platform independent and flexible to meet the diverse needs of large, heterogeneous organizations looking to securely and efficiently access and manage identity information across globally distributed directories, databases and other data repositories.

MaXware is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, with subsidiaries in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company’s more than 300 customers in 30 countries include a cross-section of the world’s largest telecom, defense, government and financial organizations. More information is available at www.maxware.com.

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