Industry Leaders Join BioPassword's Technical Advisory Board to Extend Innovation to Target Markets

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2006--

Secure Authentication and Anti-Fraud Solution Company Joins Forces with Authorities in eCommerce, Enterprise Software, and Security

“BioPassword brings a unique solution to this dilemma and I'm pleased to be a part of its continued innovation and expansion.”

BioPassword, Inc., the only software company providing secure authentication and anti-fraud solutions based on the behavioral biometric of keystroke dynamics, today announced the formation of the BioPassword Technical Advisory Board. Charter members include Joel Scambray, former Senior Director of Microsoft's MSN Security group and Foundstone co-founder; Sean Jazayeri, Chief Information Officer for Avanade; Michael George, former Vice President of Human Resources for Amazon.com; Stefan Weitz, Director of the Windows Server Community at Microsoft; Matt Sommer, Senior Security Engineer at Amazon.com and Jim Ange, Vice President of Sales for Covestic.

"The growth of online banking and ecommerce, an overall explosion of identity theft, and now the FFIEC guidelines has built the perfect storm of demand for stronger authentication solutions. However, many organizations cannot afford the costly hardware required by many approaches and do not want to add the intrusive steps that hinder productivity or consumer satisfaction required of others," said Joel Scambray, who also co-authored Hacking Exposed. "BioPassword brings a unique solution to this dilemma and I'm pleased to be a part of its continued innovation and expansion."

BioPassword is the only company to provide a two-factor authentication solution that monitors and authenticates users based on the unique way individuals type. As BioPassword continues innovations, the Technical Advisory Board will play a key role in advising the executive and development teams on emerging industry trends, best applications for customer needs, extending strategic business partnerships and offering feedback on future product directions.

"Our ability to attract leaders in the industry to advance BioPassword's goal of delivering the most cost-effective authentication and anti-fraud solution is a testament to both the serious nature of identity theft and BioPassword's unique solution. I look forward to working with this strong group of industry veterans to further innovation and benefit our customers," said Greg Wood, CTO of BioPassword.

The BioPassword Technical Advisory Board members hold a one-year term. Members include:

Joel Scambray works in Microsoft's Security Business & Technology Unit, where he helps drive the company's evolving security products and services strategy. He was formerly Senior Director of Microsoft's MSN Security group, with architectural and operational oversight over all Microsoft Internet properties, including Hotmail, Passport, MSN Messenger, and Microsoft.com. Before joining Microsoft in August 2002, Scambray co-founded security services startup Foundstone Inc., which was acquired by McAfee in October 2004 for $86M, and he previously held positions as a manager for Ernst & Young, security columnist for Microsoft TechNet, Editor at Large for InfoWorld Magazine, and Director of IT for a major commercial real estate firm. He is most widely recognized as co-author of Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, the international best-selling Internet security book, as well as related titles on Windows and web application security. He has spoken widely on information security to organizations including CERT, The Computer Security Institute (CSI), ISSA, ISACA, SANS, private corporations, and government agencies, including the FBI, the RCMP, and the Korean Information Security Agency (KISA). Scambray has maintained CISSP accreditation since 1999.

As Chief Information Officer for Avanade, Sean Jazayeri guides the development of technical infrastructure and applications architecture for Avanade. He also works closely with Microsoft to ensure Avanade's position as an aggressive early adopter of Microsoft enterprise technologies. Jazayeri has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry, including five years at Microsoft where he served as the Director of Worldwide Operations for Microsoft Consulting Services and as the Business Manager of the Information Technology Group. Jazayeri started his consulting career with stints at both Accenture and Booz Allen Hamilton. His customers included banking, gaming and consumer product companies. Jazayeri has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering and a Master's in Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine.

Michael George brings to BioPassword's Technology Advisory Board vast experience in directing design, development and implementation of technical infrastructures. As former Vice President of Human Resources for Amazon.com, George was responsible for driving global human resource policies, practices and operations. He joined Amazon in 1998 as the company's Director of Worldwide IT Operations and contributed to various aspects of operations in both IT and Human Resources through May of 2005. Prior to joining Amazon, George was the Vice President of Business Development for Junglee Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based company that created and patented virtual database technology. He also served as Vice President of Technology for Digital Ink Company/Washington Post Company, where he oversaw the development of strategic systems and products, including The Washington Post Digital Ink, careerpath.com, careerpost, washingtonpost.com, electionline.com and politicsnow.com. Michael George holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County with a major in Information Systems Management.

Stefan Weitz is a 15 year technology veteran with experience developing software solutions that target customer needs. Weitz is the Director of the Windows Server Community at Microsoft where he is directly responsible for developing the Windows Servers strategies specifically targeted towards integrating customers into the product development cycle. In this capacity, Weitz has established self-sustaining technical communities internally and externally, working to align the core user community strategies across Microsoft.

Prior to this, Weitz was a Director within the Information Security team at Microsoft where he was responsible for implementing L2TP/IPSec across Microsoft's technology infrastructure. In addition, Weitz implemented a comprehensive Security Risk Assessment Methodology and developed the strategy and tactics to ensure the security and protection of Microsoft source code from both technical and physical threats.

Matt Sommer brings over 13 years of information security expertise to the BioPassword Technical Advisory Board, having consulted for companies such as Speakeasy, Semaphore, angelfire.com, Alexander Hutton Capital, Microsoft, Cisco, and Juniper. As a senior level architect and engineer, he has made key contributions to the technologies, products, and services provided by companies such as F5 Networks, Go2Net, Internap Network Services, Arbor Networks, and Amazon.com. Sommer holds degrees in Computer Science and related fields from the University of Edinburgh, the Evergreen State College, and has attended the Juris Doctorate program at Seattle University. He is a long standing member of SAGE and USENIX, is a CISSP, and an Associate Instructor with the ISC2's CBK instructor corp.

Jim Ange is currently a partner and VP of Sales for Covestic Inc. where since 2001 he has a proven track record for building a Sales program, customer base and revenue stream from the ground up. His range of expertise includes managing and driving large deals with complex selling cycles to closure with a broad range of IT and Operations products and services, providing proven financially beneficial services to his account base. Prior to Ange's work at Covestic, he worked with Lucent to continue growth and expansion of a regional account base that included Microsoft, AT&T Wireless (Cingular), T-Mobile, Boeing and others. Basing his approach to the long term business model by way of customer knowledge, building trust and honesty as well as bringing the best of breed solutions have given Ange the continued business relationships he currently enjoys. Awards presented to him include Lucent World Wide Services Top Global Salesperson in 2000 & 2001, 3Com Top Regional Sales VAR in 1996 & Allied Telesis Top Product Sales Contest in 1991-92. Association affiliations he continues are with WSA, ItSMF, Olive Crest and WAC.

About BioPassword

BioPassword, Inc. (www.biopassword.com), located in Issaquah, Washington, is the leader in delivering enterprise security software solutions for multi-factor authentication and reducing fraud using the biometric science of keystroke dynamics. By creating a biometric template from user logon credentials in combination with a high-performance behavioral biometric processing engine, the device-independent authentication software is fast, accurate, transparent, scalable to millions of users and immediately deployable across the organization and the Internet without the need for expensive tokens, cards or other specialized hardware. Using BioPassword to monitor and authenticate users, organizations can quickly and cost effectively implement secure access, comply with regulatory requirements, and reduce the risks of fraud.

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