Corporate Overview

Kasten Chase (TSX: KCA) offers enterprise-class, business solutions for secure storage, secure collaboration, and secure remote access.

Kasten Chase is the developer of Assurency® SecureData, a leading Secure Information Management solution that integrates data management and information security to deliver compliance; enhanced risk management; and greater optimization of storage resources.

Assurency® Business Services are the first collaborative set of compliance assessment, risk assessment and business case analysis for the enterprise storage security market. Based on ISO 17799/BS 7799 and NIST standards, Kasten Chase’s services deliver the world’s leading best practices for information assurance.

The Company also markets CipherShare™ – a secure collaboration and document management solution. CipherShare allows organizations to establish secure, virtual workspaces across network and organizational boundaries to enhance workgroup productivity.

Kasten Chase established its credentials within government and military departments through its high-assurance, remote access solutions. Certified by the U.S. National Security Agency and pre-approved by the Canadian Communications Security Establishment, the company’s RASP Data Security™ portfolio protects some of the most sensitive information in the world.

Kasten Chase is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario with offices in Ottawa, Ontario and Sterling, Virginia. Kasten Chase is a certified ISO 9001:2000 company.

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Our Customers

Kasten Chase’s customers include organizations who value high-assurance data security, including:

• U.S. National Security Agency, U.S. Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, Canadian Communications Security Establishment.
• All unified commands within the U.S. Department of Defense, Pacific Air Forces, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Hurlburt Field – Florida, Eglin Air Force Base – Florida, Elmendorf Air Force Base – Alaska, Nellis Air Force Base – Nevada, Scott Air Force Base – Illinois, Third U.S. Army, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Marine Corps Forces Atlantic.
• MDS Sciex and 2Keys Corporation.

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Our Industry Affiliations

Kasten Chase is an active participant in a number of standards bodies and industry associations, including the IEEE Security in Storage Working Group, the Storage Networking Industry Association, and the ANSI T-11.3 Fibre Channel Security Protocol Working Group. Kasten Chase believes that all networked storage security protocols must be open and scrutinized by these groups, the vendor community, and end-user organizations. Through its participation in these and other standards committees, Kasten Chase is helping to define new open standards for secure networked storage and shape the future of data storage security.

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Our History

Over its 30-year history, Kasten Chase has provided secure data networking solutions to leading organizations in the government, financial services, telecommunications and automotive sectors. The Toronto Stock Exchange, SBF-Bourse de Paris, the Brussels Stock Exchange, Sociedad de Bolsas in Spain, AT&T, Hughes Network Systems, Northern Telecom, Scientific Atlanta, GTE, U.S. Robotics, Reynolds+Reynolds, EDS, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the International Postal Corporation have all benefited from Kasten Chase technology.

Dow Jones Telerate, a leading provider of financial information to global capital markets, relied on Kasten Chase solutions for the secure, reliable delivery of mission-critical electronic data to more than 40,000 customers in 40 countries around the world. Working with EDS Corporation in Washington, DC, Kasten Chase deployed more than 10,000 network devices at the field offices of the United States Department of Agriculture. The USDA network supports a variety of applications — including payroll and loan processing — supporting employees and farmers across the United States.

In 1997, the U.S. National Security Agency initiated the Remote Access Security Program (RASP) to provide the U.S. Department of Defense’s mobile workforce with secure remote access to Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) and Classified (Secret) information. Kasten Chase became a principal partner with the NSA in the RASP program, and is today the Agency’s designated vendor for all components of RASP Data Security.

Certified by the NSA and pre-approved by the Communications Security Establishment, the RASP portfolio is now well established in the U.S. Government market with significant deployments throughout the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). RASP Data Security products are being used extensively by U.S. forces in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. They have been adopted by all branches of the U.S. Military, all unified commands, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Canadian Communications Security Establishment, among others.

The U.S. Customs Service deployed RASP Data Security in support of security measures implemented for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. In June 2002, RASP Data Security products were first deployed in support of the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet program (NMCI). These products, implemented through Raytheon Company, the lead subcontractor for the information security component of NMCI, form part of the basic network infrastructure. Since the third quarter of 1998, when RASP Data Security products were first available, Kasten Chase has provided approximately 650 RASP systems to over 400 customers.

Based on the success of RASP Data Security and the Company’s experience working with government intelligence agencies and DoD customers, Kasten Chase has become a recognized leader in high-assurance data security.

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