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Subject: OS2News: Security - Secure Workplace for OS/2 v4.10 Professional Ed.

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 <Ctrl+Alt+Del> plus <Alt+F1> 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  <Ctrl+Alt+Del> 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'