NW_20011220_en_VASCO’s Digipass 800 Awarded “Pick of 2001” by SC Magazine

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Illinois and BRUSSELS, Belgium – December, 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 SC Magazine (www.scmagazine.com), one of the world’s leading e-security media, has chosen VASCO’s Digipass 800 to be “Pick of the Year 2001”in the category Smartcards and Tokens, part of SC’s yearly list with best security products. For the second consecutive year, a Digipass product is recognized by SC. In 2000, Digipass 700 was awarded “Pick of the Year.”

The SC jury granted Digipass 800 very high scores on value for money, features, performance, documentation, support and ease of use. According to SC Magazine, DP 800 “combines the intrinsic security of the smartcard with the advantages of using unconnected tokens, enabling secure network access without being restricted by access methods and OS platforms. (…) Because it is a self-initialising authentication device, it is truly mobile security.”

About Digipass 800
The Digipass 800 is a secure, intelligent, universal platform that extends strong authentication and digital signature capabilities to all market-leading smart cards, enabling existing smart card environments to give safe and flexible access to banking applications. As a hand-held and platform-independent device, the Digipass 800 functions as a fully portable “security portal” that eliminates the need for a smart card reader and software for any smart card holder.

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, the web, 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.

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