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SSH Communications Security (SSH), the world-leading developer of Internet security and advanced cryptography solutions, and Argus Systems Group, Inc., an international vendor of trusted operating system technology, today announced a licensing agreement to incorporate SSH IPSEC Express™ Toolkit into Argus' industrial-strength secure transaction platform, Gibraltar®. The IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) component will provide Argus customers with a superior mechanism to encrypt and encapsulate network traffic.

"SSH IPSEC Express offers our customers an important element for their overall security architecture," said Randy Sandone, president and CEO of Argus. "With this agreement, our customers can be certain that by employing the market leading secure foundation, Gibraltar, they are also getting the most robust network-level security solution available."

Including IPsec with the standard Gibraltar product will allow Argus to enhance the remote administration capabilities of Gibraltar, as well as offer customers a more robust means of conducting their secure online data and financial transactions. "The number of Internet users is expected to grow to over half a billion by 2003," said George Adams, president and CEO of SSH, Inc. "The resulting increase in Internet financial transaction value and mission-critical traffic will drive explosive demand for innovative secure server and networking solutions like those from Argus and SSH."

Gibraltar

Gibraltar employs trusted operating system technology to securely connect Internet-based users directly to enterprise back-end systems and business processes. An industrial-strength secure transaction platform designed to support Internet-based electronic business processes, Gibraltar allows Internet users to interact directly with a company's back-end server as if they were internal users. Gibraltar is ideal for use in e-commerce systems, Internet banking environments, and as the secure foundation for PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) systems and CAs (Certificate Authorities).

IPsec and SSH IPSEC Express

IPsec is an IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standard for protecting IP traffic using cryptography on the packet level. This Internet protocol is the predominant security technology used in VPNs (Virtual Private Networks). A driving force for IPsec, VPNs allow users to establish secure data communications between multiple networks or network devices using insecure public networks such as the Internet. SSH's IPsec technology adds scaleable, strong security to IP networks, without limiting its flexibility to enable new types of business opportunities, such as secure local and global communications between companies e-commerce and e-banking. SSH IPSEC Express is the world's leading toolkit for IPsec.

About Argus Systems Group, Inc.

Argus Systems Group, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Savoy, Illinois, offers a full suite of E-commerce security solutions and applications. Argus is committed to providing state-of-the-art security solutions for Internet-based computing environments. Argus supplies the only ITSEC certified trusted platform available to support multiple platforms, from desktop to enterprise sever, in a networked configuration. For more information about Argus Systems Group, visit the Company's web site at www.argus-systems.com.

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