Tokyo, Beaverton -- November 4, 2004- NexantiS Corporation ("Nexantis") an international editor of strategic-security solutions headquartered in Japan and netVigilance Inc. an authorized distributor of SecureScout™ announce today the release of a test policy; HIPAA Safe Scan for the popular SecureScout™ line of Network Vulnerability Assessment tools; to meet risk assessment requirements for the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) for protection of patient information in healthcare institutions.

Jesper Jurcenoks; CEO at netVigilance describes the challenges facing healthcare providers in this way: "In order to remain profitable and competitive in the healthcare industry; providers must leverage the latest technological advances in Information Systems and the Internet. Meeting the market demand to provide more services in electronic form can run at odds to ensuring protection of information assets." Jurcenoks went on to say: "CSOs and CIOs need tools to quickly identify vulnerabilities and prescribed remediation in order to head off cyber-threats as the organization grows and adapts." "With HIPAA Safe Scan, SecureScout provides a fast and comprehensive assessment of network vulnerabilities as they relate to HIPAA compliance. You benefit from our installed base of tens of thousands of users, you gain the collective input of these colleagues in meeting the hacker threat to your healthcare information systems", said Jurcenoks.

With it's unique and unmatched distributed architecture, Extensive reporting, largest number of detected vulnerabilities and the fewest number of false-positives; SecureScout from NexantiS and netVigilance is the industry leading solution for Corporate Network Vulnerability assessment.

About NexantiS:

Founded in 2001, NexantiS Corporation is the security IT arm of DNP (Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.), the 35,000-employee multimedia Japanese group. As the largest printing group worldwide, DNP has many activities in commercial printing, electronic publishing, web contents, security printing, and owns the largest market share in Japan for smart cards. In that framework, NexantiS goals are to deliver leading-edge security solutions for the enterprise, along three main axes:

1. Vulnerability assessment tools: SecureScout™
2. Solutions for identity management, access control, and single sign-on
3. Smart Cards, Reader / Writers, and related.

NexantiS has been distributing SecureScout™ as its strategic vulnerability assessment product since 2000. Through a comprehensive Value Added Partner Program, SecureScout™ and other NexantiS solutions are made available in Asia, Europe, and Americas.

For more information, please visit our homepages:

• http://www.securescout.com/ (English)
• http://www.nexantis.us/ (English)
• http://www.nexantis.co.jp/ (Japanese)

or mail to info at nexantis dot net

About netVigilance:

Founded in 2003, netVigilance delivers best-in-class solutions for protection of corporate networks. With its SecureScout™ line of vulnerability assessment tools; netVigilance will ensure increased profitability, increased operational efficiencies, higher productivity and decreased downtime by increasing the efficiency of network security operations.

The SecureScout™ Security Operations engineers continually uncover vulnerabilities in 3rd party operating systems, equipment, applications and services.

SecureScout™ engineers develop and deploy vulnerability test cases, security alerts, remediation procedures and expert opinion to over 2,000 customers and clients worldwide.

For information contact:

Jesper Jurcenoks
netVigilance Public Relations
17937 SW McEwan Road
Suite 250
Portland, Oregon 97224
+1 503 524 5758

jesper dot jurcenoks at netvigilance dot com

SecureScout™ is the name of the suite of NexantiS security products for Vulnerability Assessment and Management. SecureScout™ is a trademark of NexantiS Corporation. netVigilance, Inc. is a partner of NexantiS and an authorized distributor of SecureScout.

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