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GRIFFON TECHNOLOGIES SIGNS RESELLER DEAL WITH VIAQUO

Griffon to Resell ViaSeal 1.1, New Access Permissioning Software that Ensures Information Gets to the Right People, but Without Getting to the Wrong People.

SAN JOSE, CALIF., (December 9, 2002)- Viaquo Corporation announced that Griffon Technologies, a Montreal-based systems integration company with extensive experience in office automation, IT security, technical support, and system integration, has signed a reseller agreement to market Viaquo's ViaSeal access permissioning software in the Canadian market.

Viaquo's ViaSeal 1.1 distributed access permissioning software is unlike any other access control system because its simple distributed architecture can be quickly deployed and centrally managed across any-sized corporate network. ViaSeal allows users to lock (encrypt) any file and store or transmit it anywhere, knowing that only people with company-authorized ViaSeal accounts containing appropriate access permissions will be able to unlock (decrypt) them.

ViaSeal is a role-based one-to-many access control system for digital files of all kinds. A ViaSeal system using CKM technology licensed from TecSec, Inc., issues both unlock (decrypt) and lock (encrypt) access permissions called credentials to users through a central web site. Users have access to their credentials in a "security profile" located on their system that enables them to lock and unlock files independently from the central site, up until the security profile times out and they must log in and download a new copy of their security profile. Typically, anyone can receive a file in the mail or access it over the web, but only users with the appropriate credentials can access it - to anyone else, the file is just so much digital garbage.

"I am very pleased that Griffon Technologies has selected ViaSeal to sell as its security solution for access control applications," says Viaquo's CEO, Bill Sweet. "Griffon is a well respected systems integrator in Canada that has impressive experience in selling and implementing security products at a large array of companies."

"With ViaSeal, Griffon can now protect the data instead of protecting the channel. This not only makes it harder for attackers to steal anything once they have broken through your perimeter defenses, it also protects customers from internal users, statistically the most likely attackers, and the ones hardest to protect against," says Sweet.

"We took a hard look at ViaSeal and liked what we saw," said Steven Redmond, CEO of Griffon Technologies, "Our customers have repeatedly let us know they wanted simple, easy-to-use security tools to protect their data, and ViaSeal is the easiest to use of all. It protects company files no matter where they are stored or how they are transmitted, yet a simple double-click on a protected data file and it opens in its application- but only for the right people." Redmond added that ViaSeal is also easy to deploy because it does not require digital signatures and can work with or without existing email, firewalls, VPNs, PKI systems and network architectures.

Griffon sees tremendous potential for ViaSeal in the Canadian market. Griffon's applications include IT management, Human resources, Information security, Office automation, Networking, Software distribution and Technical support.

To view the ViaSeal product demo, visit the Viaquo Web site at www.viaquo.com.

About Viaquo Corporation:
Silicon Valley-based Viaquo Corporation is a new distributed access permissioning company chaired by venture technologist Gil Amelio and backed by Sienna Ventures, VenGlobal Capital Fund and Hsieh Investment Limited Partners. Viaquo's ViaSeal distributed access permissioning platform enables ISPs, content vendors, enterprises and exchanges to seal and tamper-proof digital packages of rich media or sensitive enterprise information for mass distribution over the Internet or the corporate enterprise. ViaSeal is an extremely easy-to-use one-to-many access permissioning platform created for precise control of enterprise-wide information that is scalable to millions of users.

For more information, visit Viaquo at http://www.viaquo.com/, or contact:

About Griffon Technologies:
Montreal-based Griffon Technologies partners only with vendors and manufacturers that deliver the best solutions in the fields where they specialize. Establishing preferred relationships with these vendors by certifying internal staff on their technologies and using their products in our solutions enables Griffon to give customers better service and more insight on the technologies they are choosing. Griffon's relationship approach gives the company the edge needed to recommend solutions that will work in customer environments. Griffon's account managers have all the tools and technical staff needed to make sure they answer customer needs correctly and in a timely manner.

For more information, contact:
Steven Redmond
Griffon Technologies
615 Rene Levesque Blvd. West, Suite 440
Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3B 1P5
Phone: (514) 398-0038 ext 223
Fax: (514) 398-9797
Toll free: (888) 440-9463 ext 223
sredmond@griffon-tech.com