Cervalis Receives TruSecure Service Provider Certification
For The Third Year In A Row

Cervalis' Focus on Security and Secure IT Operations Validated by
Top Independent Risk Management Firm

STAMFORD, Conn., March 29, 2004

For the third year in a row, Cervalis has received the highly demanding TruSecure Service Provider security assurance certification. TruSecure Corporation is the leading provider of intelligent risk management products and services, and TruSecure certification is the de facto standard for secure IT and Internet operations. Certification is achieved as a result of following a risk management program of rigorous and continuous testing of the security measures employed and the actual level of security achieved. Receiving this certification further establishes Cervalis as an industry leader, fully committed to securing its customers' IT and Disaster Recovery operations.

TruSecure’s Risk Management Program is an industry-recognized risk reduction program that addresses all aspects of information security, ranging from network and system vulnerability analysis to physical and policy evaluation. The certification tests are performed regularly, and companies must meet all of the standards in the program in order to maintain the TruSecure-backed certification.

Under the program, Cervalis works with TruSecure to regularly assess the company’s overall security strategy with regard to its operations environment. Evaluation procedures are carried out pursuant to the TruSecure risk assessment and mitigation methodology, which addresses six categories of risk, including privacy, electronic threats and vulnerabilities, malicious code, physical security, human factors, and downtime issues.
" Earning this certification validates our ongoing efforts to maintain the highest levels of security for our clients," said Michael Boccardi, president and CEO of Cervalis. “We are proud to have earned TruSecure's designation for the third year in a row and we will continue to offer our customers state-of-the-art secure environments that address their IT operations and business continuity needs."

The goal of the TruSecure Risk Management Program is to verify and implement effective security controls at every point within Cervalis’s network infrastructure, and then check them on an ongoing basis to ensure they are continuously met. Evaluation procedures under the TruSecure program include repeated external and internal network scanning of the critical devices in Cervalis’s network; network configuration reviews; onsite inspections of Cervalis’s physical environment, including susceptibility to theft, and Cervalis’s perimeter physical defenses, such as gates, locks, surveillance devices and alarms; and reviews of information security policies and procedures. Throughout the testing and analysis, TruSecure concluded that Cervalis has taken appropriate action to prevent exploitable vulnerabilities.

"Cervalis’s customer focus is on organizations that have very rigorous requirements for data and network security,” said Bob Flinton, TruSecure’s director of product management. “TruSecure certification is a globally recognized validation, providing organizations a complete framework to continuously identify and manage risk. The TruSecure Service Provider Certification confirms Cervalis’s commitment to its customers and partners by providing stringent processes to adhere to in order to maintain an environment with the highest levels of security and reliability. Current and prospective customers can have confidence in the security and reliability of the company's services."

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