NW_20011213_en_VASCO CEO Mario Houthooft to be interviewed at CEOcast

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Illinois and BRUSSELS, Belgium – December 13, 2001 – VASCO (Nasdaq NM & Nasdaq Europe: VDSI; www.vasco.com), a global provider of enterprise-wide security products that support e-business and e-commerce, announced today that CEOcast, America’s leading source of streaming broadcast interviews of Chief Executive Officers, will interview VASCO’s President & CEO Mario Houthooft on December 13. The interview will be streamed on www.ceocast.com on Thursday, December 13, as from 12 o’clock EST/18.00 CET.




About VASCO
VASCO secures the enterprise from the mainframe to the Internet with infrastructure solutions that enable secure e-business and e-commerce, protect sensitive information, and safeguard the identity of users. The Company's family of Digipass® and VACMAN® products offers end-to-end security through strong authentication and digital signature, enterprise Single Sign-On, and LAN security, while sharply reducing the time and effort required to deploy and manage security. VASCO's customers include hundreds of financial institutions, blue-chip corporations, and government agencies in more than 50 countries. More information is available at www.vasco.com.

About CEOcast
CEOcast is the premier source of original and syndicated streaming broadcast interviews of Chief Executive Officers at public and private news-making companies. Organized by industry, its analysts average over 15 years experience covering and evaluating Wall Street's leading companies. CEOcast's programming is distributed to millions of on-line investors at over 700 financial web sites as well as to more than 20,000 portfolio managers, buy-side analysts and traders at more than 3,300 North American institutions. Content is also disseminated to over 7,000 investment research professionals representing over 425 institutions. All content is copyrighted to protect our licensing partners.

Forward Looking Statements
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Reference is made to the Company's public filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for further information regarding the Company and its operations.

For more information contact:
Media:
Jochem Binst, +32 2 456 9810, [email protected]
Investor Relations:
Annemieke Blondeel, Americas +1 630 932 8844, Europe +44 20 8308 7080, [email protected]