SYPHERLINK ANNOUNCES GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF SYPHERLINK: HARVESTER™– A PATENT- PENDING NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT ENABLES MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES TO
APPEAR AS A SINGLE VIRTUALLY CENTRALIZED DATABASE.

Harvester Automatically Establishes Relationships Between Disparate Data Sources-- Allowing
For Information Sharing

Columbus, Ohio; August 12, 2002 -- Sypherlink, a leading technology firm focusing on information sharing and privacy solutions, today announced the general availability of Sypherlink: Harvester™, a revolutionary, patent-pending technology that enables multiple data sources to appear as a single virtual database.

Whether you are a company, government or law enforcement agency, or a healthcare organization, access to relevant data is essential. Regardless of what is ultimately driving the need for information sharing, the key issue hindering information sharing is the same. Information exists today in multiple sets of disparate data sources on a wide variety of platforms ranging from desktop computers to mainframes. The complexity, time and cost associated with integrating disparate data sources often prohibit organizations from realizing the benefits of information sharing.

Sypherlink: Harvester™ is a revolutionary and patent-pending technology that enables multiple data sources to appear as a single virtually centralized database. This technology focuses on the most fundamental step required to share data between data sources-the mapping process. Although there are many translation and transformation tools used today for data integration, each of these tools still requires a significant amount of expertise and manual effort to determine how data relates between databases.

Harvester’s patent-pending technology applies advanced heuristics to drastically reduce the amount of resources and domain expertise required, and automates many of the manual tasks necessary today, thus resulting in significant savings of both time and money. Once Harvester automatically identifies the inter- and intra-database relationships, users can utilize the output as a virtually centralized, ODBC-compliant database.

Additionally, the “maps” created by Harvester can be easily compiled so that existing electronic data interchange (EDI) and enterprise application integration (EAI) tools can be used for the translation, transformation and communication requirements.

“Imagining, developing and applying innovative approaches to recurring problems surrounding information sharing and collaboration is not only our mission, it is our passion. We are particularly excited about the Harvester technology because of the impact it will have on every initiative that requires information sharing, most notably in the areas of homeland defense and HIPAA compliance. Sypherlink’s software and technology enables organizations to create a state of “total information awareness” while maintaining the privacy and security that is critical to so many organizations,” said James Paat, President and CEO of Sypherlink.

About Sypherlink
Sypherlink is a software and technology firm focused on developing and applying innovative approaches to information sharing and collaboration. Sypherlink provides global 1000 companies, state and federal government, health care providers and insurance agencies with a revolutionary, patent-pending, rapid data integration solution and a browser-based privacy and security tool. Sypherlink is headquartered in Columbus, OH and maintains an office in Washington D.C. Sypherlink may be reached at 614-847-1800 or www.sypherlink.com.