AGOURA HILLS, Calif. – October 15, 2003 – Symark, the leader in UNIX and Linux security solutions, today announced the appointment of Albert Acuña to address the business development, channel management, customer support and marketing activities for Spain and Portugal.

Al Acuña, Director General of Ibero América, Symark: “According to IDC Research, information security is one of Europe’s fastest growing IT segments, with revenues expected to surpass $4 billion by 2004, compared to just more than $1.5 billion last year. Symark will continue its EMEA market expansion by developing opportunities in both Spain and Portugal. Symark seeks the right business partners to deliver its UNIX and Linux security solutions to global enterprise companies. While UNIX is still the dominant platform in the data center for most countries and Linux is the fastest growing operating system, natively both of these operating systems lack strong control of the ROOT account - the target of most hackers. Symark’s solutions strengthen access control through granular password/login management and delegation of administrative privileges, including ROOT.”

Prior to joining Symark, Mr. Acuña was the Director of Sales and Marketing in Latin America for PSINet and also served as Director of Latin America Operations for Informatics General Corporation. Mr. Acuña has over 35 years of experience working in information technology throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. He has successfully led Symark’s market expansion into Latin America.

About Symark 

Founded in 1985, Symark is the leading provider of security solutions for Global 2000 businesses that protect UNIX and Linux resources with superior access control and privilege management. Symark PowerBroker® enables granular delegation of administrative privileges while restricting root account access. Symark PowerPassword® provides login and password policy management with stronger passwords, aging and history. Both products offer the broadest range of UNIX/Linux platforms, central administration and detailed audit logs. Symark’s products strike the perfect balance between protection and productivity by preventing damage or abuse by trusted users, whether intentional or not. For more information, visit us at www.symark.com.