Archer Technologies Ranked Number One In-Plan Compliance Reporting Vendor

Independent Information Security Study of Fortune 1000s Lauds Archer’s Risk and Compliance Solutions

Overland Park, KS – September 13, 2006 – Archer Technologies, a leader in enterprise risk and compliance management solutions, today announced the company has received high honors in the latest Wave 7 Information Security Study by TheInfoPro (TIP), www.theinfopro.net, an independent research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for the information technology industry. The survey of Fortune 1000 information security decision makers deemed Archer the number one vendor for compliance reporting in their upcoming plans. Respondents also noted Archer as the second leading installed vendor for both risk management and policy management.

“In our discussions with security pros, it has become clear that their information security priorities have been influenced by increasingly stringent regulatory and legal compliance demands,” said Phil Lerner, Managing Director of Information Security for TheInfoPro. “Based on our most recent findings, Archer is well positioned to meet the increasing need for security-based risk and compliance solutions, as corporate America struggles to assess and minimize risks while proving strict compliance.”

TIP's latest Information Security Study included more than 230 in-depth interviews with pre-screened information security decision makers. TIP's Information Security studies capture end user data on a broad range of companies that participate in the sector, including detailed ratings and spending plans on their vendors of choice. TIP's "Technology Heat Index" measured the perceived implementation immediacy for more than 38 information security technologies based on near-term implementation plans and weighted the findings against company spending data.

“Since our inception, we’ve made the customer our number-one priority and evolved our solutions and services to meet their ever-changing needs,” said Jon Darbyshire, president and CEO of Archer Technologies. “We’re thrilled that our customers and prospects recognize the value of our enterprise risk and compliance management solutions, and we’re confident that our flexible services and comprehensive enterprise risk management-based solutions will continue to help our customers meet rising industry demands.”

The Archer SmartSuite Framework is a highly customizable, vendor-neutral and content-independent infrastructure for managing risk and compliance processes for the enterprise. Archer is the only solution to offer deep integration between seven integral enterprise risk and compliance management solutions (i.e. Policy, Threat, Asset, Risk, Incident, Vendor and SOX Compliance Management). All Archer solutions are built on this BITS-certified framework, empowering customers to tailor Archer's out-of-the-box, best-practice solutions to meet their unique and changing requirements or to build new, powerful, easy-to-use global applications.

The deep integration across the various processes and solutions provides the most comprehensive view of how risk and compliance initiatives affect all aspects of an organization, supporting an integrated workflow, advanced searching and reporting, and metrics dashboards. This reduces the effort required to create, implement, communicate and report policy compliance as well as manage enterprise risks across the entire organization.

About TheInfoPro

TheInfoPro (TIP) is a New York City based independent research network covering Information Technology (IT). TIP produces fundamental, grass roots research on Storage, Servers, Information Security, and Networking without spin or bias, reflecting the voice of the customer. The research sources are the world's largest buyers and users of IT, a peer-sharing network of over 900 companies including Citigroup, FedEx, McGraw-Hill, MasterCard, Pfizer, Vodafone, PepsiCo, JPMorgan Chase and Harvard University. Founded in 2002 by alumni of Gartner, EMC, Giga and IBM, TIP serves three primary audiences: IT Professionals, Institutional Investors and Technology Providers. For more information, please visit www.theinfopro.net.

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.