ONTARIO RECENT THEFT OF COMPUTER RAISES DATA PROTECTION ISSUES Media Advisory: Sick Kids Ordered to Encrypt Identifiable Data (Breaking News): "Media Advisory: Sick Kids Ordered to Encrypt Identifiable Data (Breaking News)

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - March 9, 2007) - emFAST Inc. -

Situation Analysis:

January 4, 2007: A laptop computer was stolen from the vehicle of a Sick Kids physician in a downtown Toronto parking lot. Source: Information Privacy Commissioner, Ontario.

Specific Data Compromised: Identifiable Personal Health Information of 2900 current and former SickKids patients, in some cases highly sensitive such as HIV status. Source: IPC/Ontario, Order HO-004

Increasing Frequency: of the last ten privacy breaches reported, 3 are within the North American Healthcare industry, totally 14,800 records of personal heath information compromised. Source: Attrition.Org

Sources Available:

Simon Hunt, CTO, SafeBoot

Expertise: Data/Content Encryption, International Policy, Compliance and Regulations

Simon Hunt is the Chief Technology Officer for SafeBoot. For more than 10 years, Mr. Hunt has served as an innovator and recognized specialist in the security industry - with special focus on data encryption. Mr. Hunt was one of the founding employees of SafeBoot and steered the product line from an end-user managed solution to an award-winning enterprise scalable and manageable system. Mr. Hunt has a background in IT Consultancy and Training, with five years involvement in product management and consultancy for security product providers, and three years with a Fortune 500 company. Mr. Hunt is a frequent speaker at industry tradeshows and symposia, and has authored numerous whitepapers and articles on implementing data encryption and mobile data protection technology in the enterprise.

Paul Bird, Managing Director, emFAST

Expertise: Secure Data Management, Secure Messaging

Paul Bird is the Managing Director of emFAST Inc. For more than five years, Mr. Bird has focused his work on assisting organizations of all sizes with the management and transmission of sensitive data. Mr. Bird is recognized as a visionary with the keen ability to unite both mature and emerging technologies to enhance the security of data throughout the full lifecycle. Mr. Bird has worked extensively throughout Canada and the United states with organizations of all sizes to investigate, deploy and maintain secure messaging solutions. Mr. Bird is the leading driver in the emergence of emFAST as a provider of ground breaking secure messaging solutions.

FAST FACTS:

More on the escalating threat of laptop theft from www.privacyrights.org:

A typical Fortune 1000 financial institution loses 1 laptop a day.

A typical Fortune 1000 company can't locate 2% of their PC's.

A Price Waterhouse study (7-12.2004) reported that 11,202 laptops and 208,927 handhelds/phones were left behind in taxi cabs in London, Paris, and Sydney.

During a one year period (2.05-3.06) 53,532,840 Americans had personal information stolen or exposed.

Consider also the following sampling of headlines over the past month specific to laptop theft and vulnerability market-wide:

"A laptop with uninsured patients' names, birth dates and Social Security numbers was stolen from the Seton Hospital system (Austin TX). The uninsured patients had gone to Seton emergency rooms and city health clinics since July 1, 2005." February 19, 2007

"A doctor's laptop was stolen from the Kaiser Medical Center
(Oakland, CA) containing medical information of 22,000 patients. But only 500 records contained SSNs." February 14, 2007

"Radford University, Waldron School of Health and Human Services
(Radford, VA) A computer security breach exposed the personal information, including SSNs, of children enrolled in the FAMIS program, Family Access to Medical Insurance Security. 2,400 Records Exposed" February 9, 2007

"St. Mary's Hospital (Leonardtown, MD) a laptop was stolen in December that contained names, SSNs, and birthdates for many of the Hospital's patients. 130,000 records exposed" February 8, 2007