May 07, 2003

Key Webinar “Biometrics: Highly Secure Authentication and Digital Signatures for Life Sciences Organizations”
Explore the security challenges faced by health care organizations; reviews identification and authentication breakthroughs using biometrics ; provided by IBM business partner Key Information Systems with experts from Daon and IBM Health Sciences Division.

Highlights:

• Tuesday, May 13, 11-noon webinar from Key.
• Explores health care/pharmaceutical information security challenges.
• Biometrics for identification and authentication.
• Solutions operate on iSeries, UNIX, Linux and Windows.
• Daon and IBM Life Sciences team up to provide solution.

Key is an IBM Life Sciences Business Partner implementing solution. Woodland Hills, CA – May 7, 2003 -- Key Information Systems, a systems integration company and Premier IBM® Business Partner that specializes in storage, e-business and high-availability solutions, announced today their KEY Webinar “Biometrics: Highly Secure Authentication and Digital Signatures for Life Sciences Organizations”, a web-based seminar that explores challenges faced by health care and pharmaceutical organizations, reviews identification and authentication breakthroughs with biometrics, and presents solutions that are working today.

This KEY Webinar event takes place on Tuesday, May 13 from 11am to noon PDT (2 pm to 3 pm EDT).
The KEY Webinar features Mark Wade, vice president at Daon (www.daon.com), a biometrics solution provider, Janet L. Gagnon, Ph.D., IBM BCS Healthcare / Life Sciences Practice (http://www-3.ibm.com/solutions/lifesciences), and Pete Elliot, Director of Marketing at Key Information Systems.

Topics for this free KEY Webinar on biometrics for the health care and pharmaceutical industries include:

• Gain non-repudiable authentication to control access to electronic information
• Increase security and auditability
• Meet digital signature requirements for 21CFR Part 11
• Eliminate PIN / password sharing
• Enable secure access and electronic signatures for medical records and prescriptions

Pete Elliot, Director of Marketing for Key, said, “The new HIPPA regulations and the public demand for security over their own health records has put the spotlight on improved security over medical records and the associated authentication processes. In addition, life sciences organizations are looking for biometrics to increase security and compliance with FDA audit regulations. New biometric techniques for authentication now exist for the iSeries, UNIX and Linux platforms. This KEY Webinar reviews the most critical security issues in the health care industry and the biometrics solutions that can provide the higher levels of authentication demanded today.”

“IBM Life Sciences and its business partners are in the vanguard of the movement to develop new technologies to meet the changing requirements in health care information security. Daon has developed biometric software products that provide authentication and identification within a full medical information system context,” continued Elliot.

Mark Wade at Daon added, ““It is no longer sufficient to simply authenticate a password or a token - the most secure solution is to authenticate the person through their individual and unique characteristics. Daon protects the physical and digital data assets of an organization as well as ensuring the privacy of the individual. Daon's e-signature solution, DaonSign (www.daon.com/products/prod_ds.htm), both meets and exceeds the digital signature requirements of worldwide regulatory bodies, including the FDA's 21 CFR Part 11”.

This webinar is part of the KEY Webinar Free University Series produced by Key Information Systems to explore current business and technology issues including data security, high availability, server consolidation, storage issues and Linux. The entire series is summarized in Key’s INsights e-newsletter. To register for INsights, send an e-mail to emktg@keyisit.com with your name and e-mail address. Registration data is kept confidential. See also the Key website at www.keyisit.com for a complete schedule of webinars.

About Key Information Systems, Inc.

Key Information Systems, Inc. is a Premier Business Partner with IBM and a systems integrator. Founded in 1995, Key delivers affordable and scalable solutions by integrating business strategies with infrastructure engineering. The company provides infrastructure architecture for storage solutions, business continuity, e-business and computing environment conversion.

Key has been designated a TotalStorage Solution Center by IBM, providing a full line of storage solutions across the total enterprise. This includes ESS (SHARK), SAN, NAS, FAStT, BladeCenter, iSCSI, LTO, Tivoli, TSRM and IBM storage virtualization/management products. Services include consulting in the best way to manage storage resources, business continuity planning and systems integration services to assist organizations migrating between platforms and operating system environments. For more information, visit the company online at www.keyisit.com or call 1-877-442-3249.

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