Archer is 2005 Winner in SC Magazine's Global Awards

US Excellence Award - Best Security Solution for Financial Services Awarded to Archer

Kansas City (Feb. 17, 2004) — Archer Technologies (Archer), a recognized leader in delivering enterprise security solutions, today announced winning the SC Magazine Global Awards 2005 in the category of Best Security Solution for Financial Services — US Excellence Awards. Archer's Enterprise Security Management solution was up against four other finalists for the award — Akonix, Kavado, Securewave and Teros.

New for 2005, the Excellence Awards are the latest innovation in the SC Awards program. They bring security users and developers together by focusing on technical excellence in key business sectors and professional achievement in large corporate organizations and SMEs.

"It is an honor to win Best Security Solution for Financial Services -- US Excellence Awards," said Jon Darbyshire, CEO of Archer Technologies. "We have several large Financial Services clients and it is great to be recognized as a leader in providing security solutions by a panel of industry judges."

Winners for the Reader's Trust and the US Excellence Awards were announced at the SC Global Awards 2005 dinner held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The dinner was a new edition to the annual RSA conference.

About Archer Technologies

Archer Technologies delivers enterprise governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions. With more than six million licensed users and a client list that includes one in four of the Fortune 100, Archer enables companies to manage enterprise risks, demonstrate compliance, automate business processes, and gain visibility into corporate risk and security controls.

Archer’s out-of-the-box solutions, including Policy, Risk, Compliance, Enterprise, Incident, Vendor, Threat, Business Continuity, and Audit Management, are built on the flexible Archer SmartSuite Framework™, allowing clients to tailor the solutions according to their unique requirements. Whether deployed on-premise or via Archer’s SaaS model, the Framework has become a go-to GRC platform for many global organizations.

Archer is the only vendor that delivers the Archer GRC Ecosystem™ comprised of out-of-the-box solutions, a flexible Framework, a robust user community, and an application and partner exchange, which provides clients the tools they need to build a best-in-class enterprise GRC program. For more information, visit www.archer.com or call 1-888-539-EGRC.