Solidcore Wins 2007 Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Award

Change Control Product Achieves Highest Customer Trust

PALO ALTO, Calif., Apr. 25, 2007 &nmdash; Solidcore® Systems, Inc., a leading provider of change control for critical systems, today announced that the Info Security Products Guide, a world leading publication on security-related products, has named Solidcore's S3 Control™ product the winner of the 2007 Global Product Excellence award for change control. 

The Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence award is based on customer trust and the nominations of products most effective in day-to-day IT operations.  This customer trust award is the greatest endorsement that Solidcore is ahead of the competition when it comes to change control technology.  More than 18,000 end-users and prospective customers worldwide were invited to vote for the products they trust most when it comes to protecting critical IT resources.  The complete list of winners can be viewed here: http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/products/index.html.

"Change control is part of a new frontier in proactively protecting the most critical enterprise IT systems," said Rake Narang, managing editor of the Info Security Products Guide.  "Users of change control products are constantly challenged to address unauthorized changes and code that can impact the availability and security of the organization.  These customers are building a strong customer trust for the Solidcore solution that has proven to play an instrumental role in IT infrastructure operations and security."

Solidcore's S3 Control product is easily configurable to increase the availability of IT services, enable successful implementation of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) projects, and reduce the cost of compliance initiatives.  Solidcore's change control software is the only solution to provide automated technology-based change policy enforcement to proactively ensure changes made to the infrastructure are in-line with the change policy.  The product enables customers to gain real-time visibility into changes across the entire IT infrastructure, and reconcile changes with change management systems and processes.  These capabilities enable IT organizations to maximize in-process change, document emergency change and eliminate dangerous ad-hoc change.

"Winning this award based on customer feedback is further validation that Solidcore provides the best technology for tracking and controlling IT infrastructure change," said Bob Vieraitis, vice president of marketing for Solidcore.  "Solidcore continues to pioneer the change control market with automated technology for enforcing an IT organization's change policy and processes.  This technology is helping the world's largest enterprises improve the availability of critical systems by proactively preventing unauthorized change and maximizing the amount of in-process change to the infrastructure."

About Solidcore Systems
Solidcore is a leading provider of change control for critical systems.  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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