Surety, Inc. Signs Distribution Agreement Worth Over Four Million Dollars with NTT DATA CORPORATION

Surety today announced a distribution agreement with NTT DATA CORPORATION, which provides NTT DATA with exclusive distribution rights to Surety\'s Digital Notary Service in Japan as well as distribution rights in parts of the Pacific Rim. The three-year agreement, worth over four million dollars, allows NTT DATA CORPORATION to act as the sole distributor of Surety\'s unique timestamping services to customers in that part of the world.

\"Companies are communicating and conducting business electronically more and more each day,\" said Barry Libenson, executive vice president, Surety. \"This agreement brings Surety\'s Digital Notary Service to a sophisticated corporate user base in Japan. Japanese companies can now ensure the integrity of their electronic records and verify that they have not been tampered with at any time in the future. We have been working closely with NTT DATA for quite some time to put this relationship together. NTT DATA\'s extensive coverage of the Pacific Rim and their technical expertise makes them an ideal partner for Surety. We are excited to be working with NTT DATA CORPORATION to deliver this state-of-the-art security service to companies in Japan and the Pacific Rim.\"

About Digital Notary Service

Digital Notary Service notarizes any digital content by creating a small digital fingerprint of the target data and sending it to Surety, Inc to be registered and timestamped. A unique Digital Notary Record is then sent back to the requesting client for later use in validating the notarization. Individuals, companies and governments using Surety\'s Digital Notary Service can be assured their proprietary data is protected because a digital fingerprint is a one-way identifier-no part of the original data record or file can be reconstructed from its fingerprint.

Offering unprecedented and irrefutable record security, Digital Notary Service protects electronic records in legal settings; reliably dates inventions to establish intellectual property rights; guarantees tamperproof records for regulatory compliance; prevents insider fraud, and; validates the authenticity of electronic records created by e-commerce transactions.