TEXAR PARTNERS WITH BAE SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE DEFENSE INDUSTRY WITH SECURE COLLABORATION SOLUTION January 28, 2002, Ottawa Ontario Texar (AvalonWorks Corp.), a security infrastructure software company that provides policy-enforced authorization solutions, has formed an alliance with BAE SYSTEMS, a global systems, defense and aerospace company, to provide customers with a secure collaboration option for exchanging critical and sensitive information. "Our customers are aggressively developing leading edge applications for secure collaboration and intelligence product dissemination. The U.S. military demands the ability to enforce comprehensive, granular authorization controls. Traditionally, security technology has been unable to address the full range of information assurance requirements. With Texar SecureRealms technology, our government clients will have the capability to establish, enforce, and monitor complex information assurance policies in a timely manner" said Charles Brummund, Vice President, BAE SYSTEMS, Enterprise Systems. SecureRealms is a policy-based authorization software solution that offers distributed enforcement and centralized security control to manage highly valuable or critical data across the organization - regardless of platform, server, application, or access channel. Through a single window of security, SecureRealms reduces operational costs and streamlines security management and maintenance, while improving the effectiveness of existing security systems. "Given SecureRealms' ability to encode operational rules that accurately reflect changing conditions dictated by national priorities, customers for the first time have the necessary tools to embark on secure collaborative efforts," said Robert Courteau, President and CEO, Texar Corporation. "Our security heritage and expertise, combined with BAE SYSTEMS' leadership role within the defense and aerospace market, ideally positions us to bring added value to this relationship and help improve collaborative requirements."