ATB Financial Selects Solidcore To Prevent Change Related Outages

Leverages Real-Time Change Control to Streamline IT Change Process and Meet Stringent Compliance Audit Requirements

CUPERTINO, Calif., July 22, 2008 — Solidcore® Systems, Inc., the leading provider of software to detect and prevent unwanted change, today announced that ATB Financial, one of the largest financial institutions in Canada, will implement Solidcore’s S3 Control™ software to gain comprehensive visibility over changes across the information technology (IT) environment and prevent change related IT outages. The implementation will enable ATB Financial to increase its IT service availability and streamline change processes.

ATB Financial has a distributed infrastructure that includes numerous servers, network devices and databases in data centers throughout Canada. The bank relies on its infrastructure and making regular changes and updates to the infrastructure to provide the highest level of service to its customers. To ensure the highest level of availability across these critical systems and to ease the process of complying with the bank's general audit requirements, ATB Financial will utilize Solidcore S3 Control to detect and validate changes across the IT infrastructure in real-time. ATB Financial will leverage Solidcore S3 Control to enforce pre-established change policies, and prevent out-of-policy or ad hoc change attempts to the infrastructure. Solidcore S3 Control will also provide IT staff at ATB Financial with detailed reports about each change and change attempt to streamline their stringent compliance auditing procedures.

"Our IT infrastructure is at the heart of providing exceptional customer service, and as a leading financial institution we cannot afford to have unauthorized change compromise the availability of the network and systems that propel our financial services," said Michael Redeker, vice president and chief technology officer for ATB Financial. "Solidcore is the key to managing change across our IT environment, and we look forward to using the S3 Control product to verify that our IT change management best-practices are followed and unauthorized change is not allowed to occur on our critical systems."

Solidcore S3 Control is a comprehensive control solution that greatly reduces the cost and effort needed to improve IT service availability and regulatory compliance. Solidcore captures critical change detail in real-time, including "who" is making changes, "what" is actually being changed, "when" change is occurring, and "how" the change was made. This enables organizations to ensure deployed systems are always in a known and verified state. With Solidcore’s real-time change prevention technology, unauthorized changes can be automatically blocked to ensure continuous service availability. All change events can be quickly summarized in reports to provide comprehensive visibility across the network with minimal effort.

"Rigorous demands are often placed on the IT group of a financial institution, which often translates into an increased number of file and configuration changes across the infrastructure, and a greater risk for unwanted change," said David Walker, senior vice president of worldwide field operations for Solidcore. "If you are not using Solidcore to detect and stop unwanted change, you are playing Russian Roulette with your IT infrastructure. We are excited to see ATB Financial join a rapidly growing portfolio of customers that are eliminating change-related risks and outages with Solidcore’s real-time change control."

About ATB Financial ATB Financial is the largest Alberta-based financial institution in Canada with assets of $23.3 billion. It provides personal and business financial services, investor services and corporate financial services to more than 660,000 Albertans in 244 communities. It provides service through 157 branches and 134 agencies, telephone and Internet banking, a customer contact centre and automated banking machines. ATB Financial was established in 1938 and is a provincial Crown corporation since 1997. For more information about ATB Financial, visit www.atb.com.

About Solidcore
Solidcore is the leading provider of software to detect and prevent unwanted change. Organizations worldwide trust Solidcore's change control software to improve IT compliance, security and availability. Solidcore S3 Control easily automates PCI and SOX controls for compliance reporting, locks down critical systems to ensure only trusted applications run, and prevents change-related outages for improved service availability and accelerated ITIL adoption. Solidcore is headquartered in Cupertino, California. For more information, please visit www.solidcore.com.

Solidcore is a registered trademark of Solidcore Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.  S3 Control Embedded is a trademark of Solidcore Systems, Inc.  BSQUARE is a registered trademark of BSQUARE Corporation.  All other names, products and services are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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