Shari's Cooks up Secure Infrastructure with Solidcore

Change Control Software Prevents Unauthorized Changes and Access to Restaurant Systems

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 13, 2006 — Solidcore Systems, Inc., the leader in adding control to change management, today announced that Shari's Restaurant, the largest full-service restaurant chain in the Pacific Northwest, has deployed Solidcore’s S3 change control software to prevent unauthorized changes and security threats from impacting restaurant operations.

Shari's information technology (IT) group is committed to following the Shari's restaurant concept of "always open, no matter what time and what day." To proactively ensure that level of service availability, Shari's has deployed Solidcore S3 Control on servers to thwart unauthorized and inappropriate changes to the infrastructure. Solidcore S3 Control automatically allows Shari's to prevent unauthorized users from making changes to the infrastructure, to prevent unauthorized users from changing the access privileges to critical restaurant systems, and to prevent malicious code from breaching its Microsoft Windows-based environment. This automated enforcement of change policy has helped Shari's create continuous IT service availability across the distributed restaurant chain.

"By automatically preventing unauthorized change from happening on our systems, we are achieving increased security and uptime across our network," said Bill Sherman, director of corporate systems for Shari's Restaurant. "Solidcore’s change control software alleviates the need to worry about specific risks, and instead, works as a security blanket that lets me control exactly when and how change is made to our systems. By automatically enforcing my change policy, Solidcore enables my team to focus on other pertinent IT projects."

"Shari's is setting a great example of how to achieve increased IT service availability and security through automated change control," said Robert Sandie, executive vice president of worldwide operations for Solidcore. "Solidcore enables organizations like Shari's to achieve increased levels of service availability and security through better understanding and control of all change activity across the infrastructure."

About Shari's Restaurant
Shari's is the largest full-service restaurant chain based in the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1978 and operated by Shari's Management Corporation of Beaverton, Oregon, Shari's Restaurants provide customers high quality, reasonably-priced meals 24-hours a day in a comfortable surrounding. Shari's menu features a full selection of breakfasts, salads, gourmet sandwiches, hamburgers, dinner entrees, desserts and pies. With nearly 4,500 employees, the chain currently has 98 locations throughout Oregon, Washington, California, Wyoming, Idaho, and Nebraska.

About Solidcore Systems
Solidcore adds control to change management. Solidcore’s S3 Control software is the industry’s first and only solution to automate the enforcement of change management policies. Solidcore automatically reconciles infrastructure changes against change tickets, and provides real-time change auditing so enterprises can measure the effectiveness of change management processes and policies. Customers trust Solidcore to improve service availability, implement ITIL initiatives, and lower costs related to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Solidcore also provides change control for embedded systems and is used by major device manufacturers to securely leverage open systems to meet their business requirements. Solidcore is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.solidcore.com.

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