For Immediate Release Contact: Stephen Fox Tel: 1-909-464-9450 Fax: 1-909-627-3541 Email:73707.3331@compuserve.com URL: http://www.primenet.com/~syntegrn SYNTEGRATION INC. SHIPS THE SECURE WORKPLACE FOR OS/2 VERSION 4.10 PROFESSIONAL EDITION Chino, California, October 21, 1996 -- Today Syntegration, Inc. started shipping The Secure Workplace for OS/2 V4.10 Professional Edition. New and improved features include File Access Control, Multiple Desktop Management, Internal User Identification and Authentication, Single Sign-on, Audit Trail Viewer, Lockup Screen Saver, and plus disablement. The Secure Workplace for OS/2 V4.10 Professional Edition, includes an Installable Security System (ISS) for IBM's OS/2 Security Enabling Services (SES). The ISS allows administrators to enforce file access control permissions on a user, or group basis. "The Secure Workplace for OS/2 V4.10 Professional Edition provides C2 level security for OS/2 WARP. File access control has been a major deficiency with OS/2. With our SES device driver that deficiency no longer exists. The Secure Workplace makes OS/2 WARP competitive with Windows NT in the security arena. You can give users a command prompt without fear that they might damage the system, or defeat the security" said Stephen Fox, Syntegration's President. The Professional Edition requires OS/2 Warp V3.0 with FIXPAK 17 or greater, or OS/2 Warp Version 4.XX. In addition, you must also install OS/2 Security Enabling Services prior to installing The Professional Edition. The Secure Workplace for OS/2 Standard Edition supports all versions of OS/2 from V2.11 onward. At startup, The Secure Workplace V4.10 presents the user with a sign-on window that prompts for the user identification and password. The user can also use the sign-on window to change their password or shutdown the system. An auto guest capability is available for customers that want to bypass the sign-on window. The Workplace Shell starts after the user has been identified and authenticated. All editions of The Secure Workplace for OS/2 version 4.10 enable single sign-on to a network operating system or remote host. With this feature, users only identify and authenticate themselves once. Single sign-on is accomplished by interfacing with the Network Sign on Coordinator (NSC), User Profile Manager (UPM), or your own custom program. NSC & UPM are provided with OS/2 Warp Connect, IBM LAN Server, IBM LAN Requester, and OS/2 Warp Server. A Security Administration notebook is provided to give administrators a centralized way to configure the system. With this Administration Notebook you can configure the Security Policy, Desktop Management, Audit Trail, Single Sign-on, Users, Groups, and Access control privileges. A Privilege page is also included in every object's settings notebook. These Privilege pages give administrators the ability to grant privileges at the Workplace object level. "Version 4.0X users have made positive remarks about the ease and intuitive nature of the Administration notebook," said Fox. "In version 4.10 we improved the User and Group definition pages, added a Resource access control page, and a Who Am I capability." The Secure Workplace Access control definitions allow you to grant privileges for Workplace object styles, Workplace object pop-up menus, files, and directories. Workplace object style and pop-up menu permissions include open, visibility, delete, copy, move, rename, settings, drag, drop, help, create another, and create shadow. Folder object permissions include object permissions as well as select, sort, arrange, find, details view, tree view, and open parent. Desktop permissions include object permissions, folder permissions, as well as shutdown, lockup, and system setup. Workplace Drive object permissions include object permissions, folder permissions as well as check disk, copy disk, and format disk. File and directory permissions include the appropriate workplace object permissions as well as read, write, execute, and set attributes. All editions of The Secure Workplace V4.10 include a pluggable desktop management facility. With this facility you can build a new desktop, restore a desktop, or switch to another existing desktop after a user signs-on. "By pluggable we mean you can use third party desktop management software to do the work," said Fox. "We include our own product called Traveling Workplace in the Professional edition. We also provide a reference manual that uncovers the undocumented secrets to desktop management with OS/2." All editions of The Secure Workplace V4.XX have the capability to perform desktop management by dynamic visibility. "By granting or denying the visibility privilege to an object you can make the OS/2 desktop appear differently to each user. This is what we mean by dynamic visibility," said Fox. "Dynamic visibility is an easy industrial strength approach to desktop management because you are not constantly changing the desktop." All editions of The Secure Workplace for OS/2 V4.10 include an audit trail capability. The audit trail tracks all user activities. Administrators can configure the product to record the audit information locally and/or remotely on a file server. File server based auditing, gives administrators the ability to collect audit information from multiple workstations in an enterprise network. The audit trail viewer lets you sort the audit trail by date, time, station name, user, or event. With the professional edition you can also select the security events you want to audit. "Version 4.10 represents a dramatic improvement in our audit trail facility," said Fox. "We added a background task to backup the log file every day and purge audit trail records after an administrator defined number of days. Users will also experience an overall increased in performance especially in the network environment." All editions of The Secure Workplace for OS/2 V4.10 includes a lockup screen saver. This facility is activated after an administrator defined time-out. After the screen saver is activated, the user must re-enter the sign-on password or sign-off to regain access to the workstation. "We hook the Desktop lockup screen saver so customers can continue to use the configuration in the desktop settings notebook," said Fox. The Secure Workplace for OS/2 V4.10 Professional Edition allows administrators to disable the Ctrl+Alt+Del key combination to prevent unauthorized rebooting of the system. This capability is not available in the Standard Edition. "This is a feature that customers have been wanting for years," said Fox. "You can also take away the shutdown items from the desktop pop-up menu, the launchpad, and the user sign-on window. If you have a system that must run 24 hours a day 7 days a week and you want to prevent accidental shutdown then The Secure Workplace is the product for you." All editions of The Secure Workplace for OS/2 V4.10 can disable the ALT+F1 key combination at system startup. This prevents users from restoring an unprotected desktop or accessing a command prompt. The professional edition also lets you define an ALTF1SEC.CMD program that will be executed instead of the standard archive recovery procedure. To summarize, The Secure Workplace for OS/2 V4.10 professional edition contains the following features over an above the standard edition. o OS/2 Security Enabling Services File access control driver. o disablement. o Traveling Workplace multiple desktop manager. o Selective security event auditing. o ALTF1SEC.CMD alternative archive recovery. In all other respects the Standard edition is identical to the Professional edition. In fact, the Professional edition is upwardly compatible with the standard edition. In other words, The Professional Edition will install on top of the Standard Edition and re-use the administrative configuration. The Secure Workplace V4.10 ships in Standard and Professional Editions. The Standard Edition lists for US$79.95. The Professional Edition lists for US$120.00. Additional or site Licenses are available for both editions. Registered users of The Secure Workplace for OS/2 can upgrade to version 4.10 standard Edition for $29.95, and to the version 4.10 professional edition for US$45.00. Syntegration Inc. offers maintenance and support services for all its products. For information on maintenance and support services visit or world wide web site. The Secure Workplace for OS/2 can be purchased through retail channels in the US, Canada, the Pacific Rim, and Europe or by ordered directly from SYNTEGRATION. For information write or call Syntegration Inc., 3811 Schaefer Avenue #J, Chino, CA 91710. Phone 1-909-464-9450, Fax 1-909-627-3541, Internet electronic mail 73707.3331@COMPUSERVE.COM. To obtain additional information, download and evaluation copy, or order on-line you can visit Syntegration's world wide web site. The web site address is 'http://www.primenet.com/~syntegrn' ####