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FoxT Further Integrates Fine-Grained Authorization and Authentication with the Release of BoKS Manager 6.5.3

Mountain View, CA - January 27, 2009 - Fox Technologies, Incorporated (www.foxt.com), a leading provider of centralized access management solutions, today announced the release of BoKS Manager 6.5.3. BoKS Manager is the core security platform for all FoxT Access Control Management solutions.

The new BoKS Manager delivers many operational enhancements including improved directory synchronization and the ability to re-purpose host identities to support virtualization and blade farms. The new release also provides support for several authentication systems including LDAP, Safeword and Siteminder, seamlessly leveraging customer's existing investments into a centralized access controls and audit management solution.

"We focus on providing centralized, fine-grained access control and audit management across diverse server and business application environments. A natural part of any access control process is the initial authentication of the user," said Per Eliasson, VP of Product Development at FoxT. "This new release of BoKS Manager enables the market to seamlessly integrate their existing authentication processes into a centralized access controls management solution, further streamlining administration of user accounts and boosting protection of critical data."

BoKS Access Control Management solutions are used by leading banks, utilities, telcos, and manufacturing organizations to centralize access control and audit management across Unix, Linux, and Windows servers including Virtualized Server environments and diverse business applications. The solution suite also controls delegation of privileged accounts, consolidates audit logs, and centralizes password management to reduce audit mitigation costs, streamline security administration, and greatly reduce the risk of insider fraud.

Other new features in the BoKS Manager 6.5.3 release include:

Support for LDAP, Safeword and Siteminder 6.0.5 authentication
Improved directory synchronization: ability to synchronize accounts from multiple directories
Enhanced audit logging capabilities including SFTP/SCP filename logging, certificate information logging, and keystroke logging
Ability to configure preferred replicas to optimize load and utilization of networks and servers
Consistency check for user UID/GID when logging in through BoKS
Ability to re-purpose host identities to support highly transient and fluid environments such as blade farms and virtualized servers
Improved event management: user lockouts and password changes can be captured and fed to external systems such as directories

"Growing insider fraud is jeopardizing corporate equity, states Subhash Tantry, CEO at FoxT. "To protect the brand value of our customers, FoxT remains committed to providing world class access management solutions that deliver the fastest time-to-business value. This latest release of BoKS Manager provides another step forward in providing centralized fine-grained authorization, audit, and analysis with integration to authentication systems across diverse IT environments."

About FoxT
FoxT's comprehensive Access Control Management solution suite enables organizations to centrally authenticate, authorize, audit, and analyze access in real-time to operating system services, business applications, data, and hardware configuration servers on any networked device. The ability to centrally secure the IT infrastructure enables organizations to reduce audit mitigation costs, protect corporate equity with strengthened security, and streamline IT operations. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, FoxT serves Global 1000 customers in 32 countries. For more information - www.foxt.com.

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