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Leading Healthcare IT Solution Provider Signs Reseller Agreement Establishing PositivePRO Remote Access Service of Choice for Cerner Millennium Solutions

Positive Networks, a leading provider of hosted VPN and end-point security services, today announced an agreement with Cerner Corp. (Nasdaq: CERN), the leading supplier of healthcare information technology solutions, to resell its PositivePRO service. As a result of this arrangement, PositivePRO is the preferred remote access solution for Cerner Millennium(R) solutions.

As healthcare workers face greater time demands, the ability to work beyond hospital walls is a critical factor in increasing efficiency and improving quality of life. Medical and administrative staffs rely on Cerner solutions to access and update sensitive clinical, financial and scheduling data no matter where they are. With Positive's subscription-based service, there is no software or hardware for hospital IT staff to purchase, install and maintain. Complete set up and end-point security control can be established in 24 hours or less. PositivePRO can scale to support thousands of users without the costly overhead of complicated VPN appliances.

"More than 1,500 healthcare organizations depend on Cerner solutions to keep staff connected and up-to-date with critical medical and administrative information," said Cerner Connectivity and Security Domain Manager Jay Saviano. "With its scalable, affordable and feature-rich service, PositivePRO gives healthcare IT managers the peace of mind to empower their employees with essential remote access."

PositivePRO extends Cerner's stringent HIPAA patient privacy compliance to help healthcare organizations overcome the common challenges of providing remote access, including lack of internal IT staff expertise, lack of help desk support, and burdensome upfront hardware and software expenses.

Unlike traditional VPN solutions, PositivePRO not only provides basic remote access but also provides essential endpoint security features such as:

--Antivirus protection to automatically scan for viruses at log in and update antivirus definitions

--Personal firewall software to protect the system from intrusion by hackers who may want to use employee computers as gateways to the corporate network

--Patch management to help administrators deploy the critical patches and fixes that keep networks safe

--Authentication technology to verify the user's identity

--Spyware protection powered by SpyBot-Search and Destroy to automatically deploy, scan and remove dangerous applications that can capture sensitive patient and financial data

"Positive Networks has developed a service unique to the industry that combines the connectivity and endpoint security businesses depend on for secure remote access," said Positive Networks CEO Tim Sutton. "Partnering with healthcare industry leaders like Cerner will expand the availability of PositivePRO to hospitals and medical institutions across the country."