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LAYTON TECHNOLOGY’S DEVICESHIELD SAFEGUARDS ORGANIZATIONS AGAINST THREATS FROM WITHIN

LAYTON TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES SPECIAL LICENSING FOR CONSULTANCY FIRMS

CRMWORKS TO DISTRIBUTE LAYTON TECHNOLOGY'S AUDITWIZARD AS KEY COMPONENT OF OVERALL IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT OFFERING

Layton Technology's AuditWizard Provides Advanced IT Asset Management With New On Demand Auditing Feature

LAYTON TECHNOLOGY DEVICESHIELD SAFEGUARDS ORGANIZATIONS
AGAINST THREATS FROM WITHIN

DeviceShield is a Powerful, Easy-To-Use and Cost-Effective Solution that Helps Protect Companies from Security Breaches via Mobile Devices

TAMPA, Fla.—November 15, 2005—

Layton Technology Inc., a global developer of IT auditing, helpdesk and internet monitoring software solutions, today announced the immediate availability of DeviceShield, a device control security tool designed to help organizations manage the use of authorized portable devices internally. DeviceShield joins the growing Layton Technology portfolio of easy-to-use and cost-effective network management solutions for IT and network administrators. DeviceShield addresses the growing threat of viruses and criminal activity that can occur when insiders connect mobile devices such as USB drives, CDs/DVDs, digital cameras and MP3s to a network.

 “Tracking and managing the removable devices of an organization is a labor-intensive task for administrators. DeviceShield helps equip the company with a solution that easily and efficiently protects the network,” said Robert Ward, president and CEO, Layton Technology. “It is imperative for businesses to allow use of removable media devices, especially in today’s market where employees are traveling frequently and working remotely. However, they pose a tremendous threat to data security. Layton Technology’s DeviceShield not only protects the organizations from potential security threats, but also enables IT managers to allow use of approved removable devices by authorized personnel without taking up additional resources.”

Layton Technology’s DeviceShield is a simple-to-use and flexible solution that protects an organization’s valuable data, manages security and safeguards the business against malicious and unintentional security breaches. DeviceShield can be easily downloaded and installed within minutes and provides complete control in managing all removable media devices in one centralized location. This solution effectively legitimizes users, authorizes approved devices, audits and tracks downloaded or uploaded network data, protects against unauthorized uploading of software and blocks potentially devastating viruses, adware and spyware from entering an organization’s network. DeviceShield gives administrators the flexibility to set parameters for specific users, allowing the use of legitimate tools.

DeviceShield’s other primary features include:

 Addition of internal barriers to uploading hostile code and unauthorized software;

 Choice of deployment: network-wide, domain-wide, per computer or to a list of computers;

 Centralized management of access privileges;

 Small, discrete footprints on user machines;

 Access privileges granted on company, domain, group or individual user basis;

 Blocked or restricted access can be quickly changed on a temporary or permanent basis;

 Intuitive and user-friendly interface; and

 Complete access control, addressing USB and FireWire drives, MP3 players, iPods, smart phones, handheld computers, SD cards, CDs/DVDs, floppies and more.

Studies reveal that internal security threats go largely unnoticed and most organizations do little to protect themselves. Research from The Gartner Group shows that 80 percent of IT related crime is now committed from within an organization. Security breaches can be malicious but often times they are not––for instance, when an employee unknowingly downloads a virus onto the company network through their PDA. While the use of removable media devices is becoming increasingly important for the productivity of a business, it is equally important to protect the network and avoid any disruptions that may drain productivity.

Pricing and Availability
DeviceShield offers a powerful solution to manage all removable media access at a very cost-effective entry point of $495 for 50 PCs. This includes 60 days of email and phone support in addition to any updates or new versions that are released. Volume discounting applies accordingly.

DeviceShield is available directly through Layton Technology and from Layton Technology’s global network of authorized distribution partners.

About Layton Technology, Inc.
Layton Technology, a global developer of IT auditing, helpdesk, and Internet monitoring software solutions, delivers solutions designed to optimize the management and efficiency of IT environments across SMB and large organizations. Founded in 1997, Layton Technology is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and serves more than 10,000 customers across the globe. For additional information about Layton Technology and its products, services and partners, please contact Layton Technology at (813) 319-1390 or visit www.laytontechnology.com.

LAYTON TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES SPECIAL LICENSING FOR CONSULTANCY FIRMS

The New Licensing Structure Enables Consultants to Serve their Clients’ Software Auditing Needs in a Cost-Effective Way

TAMPA, Fla.—August 15, 2005—

Layton Technology Inc., a global developer of IT auditing and helpdesk software solutions, today announced the immediate availability of a special consultancy license for AuditWizard, the company’s flagship auditing and asset management solution. With this AuditWizard license, consultancy firms can manage, install and audit each of their client’s networks without having to purchase a separate license for each organization.

Consultants need to be able to audit, manage, install and software on their clients’ networks in a real-time environment. Once consultants install AuditWizard, log into a secure site, and register each license for their clients, they are able to audit hundreds of PCs across their clients’ networks in a quick and efficient manner.

“Layton Technology recognized the need for a real-time solution that enables consultants to audit, manage, install and support their client networks,” said Robert Ward, president and CEO, Layton Technology. “Layton’s AuditWizard provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use and cost-effective solution already used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide and is now offering a custom solution to meet the needs of consultants.”

AuditWizard provides comprehensive auditing and management functions that allow network administrators to monitor virtually every type of IT asset across the enterprise including hardware, mobile and removable devices, and software, as well as providing the data to help organizations remain compliant with all of the software licenses in use on the network. By doing so, AuditWizard minimizes time spent trying to figure out what assets exist on the network, so IT can focus their time and resources on other mission critical activities. AuditWizard also eliminates the business risk of potentially costly external audits due to software license agreement violations.



About Layton Technology Inc.
Layton Technology, a global developer of IT auditing and helpdesk software solutions, delivers solutions designed to optimize the management and efficiency of IT environments across SMB and large organizations. Founded in 1997, Layton Technology is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and serves more than 10,000 customers across the globe. For additional information about Layton Technology and its products, services and partners, please contact Layton Technology at (813) 319-1390 or visit www.laytontechnology.com.

CRMWORKS TO DISTRIBUTE LAYTON TECHNOLOGY'S AUDITWIZARD AS KEY COMPONENT OF OVERALL IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT OFFERING

Value Added Reseller to Offer Layton Technology's PC Auditing and Asset Management Solution to SMB and Enterprise Customers throughout UK

TAMPA, Fla. August 1, 2005--

Layton Technology, a global developer of IT auditing and helpdesk solutions today announced that CRMworks, a leading supplier of Best Practice, out-of-the-box IT service management and helpdesk software solutions will distribute AuditWizard, Layton's flagship auditing and asset management solution, to its SMB and enterprise customers throughout the United Kingdom. This announcement comes shortly after the release of the newest version of AuditWizard.

“Layton Technology continues to expand its channel presence to provide a wider audience with easier access to our leading PC auditing and asset management software,” said Robert Ward, president and CEO, Layton Technology. “Our partnership with CRMworks will empower more IT managers to leverage the power of AuditWizard to gain better control over their network administration needs, and with the addition of the audit on-demand feature, users have the added flexibility of conducting audits whenever needed.”

IT managers are becoming increasingly sensitive to what is taking place throughout their organizations’ network, particularly with the ever-changing use of new applications and mobile devices, and with the demanding regulatory and software license compliance regulations being enforced. AuditWizard enables IT and network administrators, in over 10,000 organizations worldwide, to better manage all of their IT assets that connect to the network, as well as providing greater awareness and control over software licenses.

“One of the challenges that we constantly hear about from our customers is their concern about being able to manage the ongoing activity on their network in terms of what is being added and removed,” said Rory O’Mara, Commercial Director, CRMworks. “The addition of Layton Technology’s AuditWizard strengthens our ability to provide a complete IT service management offering to our customers who are seeking to fulfill their increasingly challenging business needs involving comprehensive management of their IT assets.”

“Our bottom-line goal is to help our customers achieve optimal levels of efficiency while offering ease of use and low total cost of ownership,” added O’Mara. “AuditWizard plays a crucial role in enabling us to offer the most cost-effective software and services possible.”

About AuditWizard
AuditWizard provides comprehensive auditing and management functions that allow network administrators to monitor virtually every type of IT asset across the enterprise including hardware, mobile and removable devices, and software, as well as providing the data to help remain compliant with all of the software licenses in use on the network. By doing so, AuditWizard minimizes time spent trying to figure out what assets exist on the network, enabling IT administrators to utilize their time and resources on other mission critical activities and eliminating business risk to potentially costly external audits due to software license agreement violations.

About CRMworks
CRMworks is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Best Practice based out-of-the-box help desk software and IT service management software solutions. The CRMworks management team has experience with over 350+ help desk projects in the past ten years. CRMworks provides ITIL best practice deployment of IT Help Desk, IT Service Management (ITSM), Change Management and Incident Management software using HEAT and GoldMine from Front Range Solutions and AuditWizard from Layton Technology, for complete IT support and enterprise help desk solutions. For more information, call 08456 44 77 41 or visit www.crmworks.co.uk.

About Layton Technology Inc.
Layton Technology, a global developer of IT auditing and helpdesk software solutions, delivers solutions designed to optimize the management and efficiency of IT environments across SMB and large organizations. Founded in 1997, Layton Technology is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and serves more than 10,000 customers across the globe. For additional information about Layton Technology and its products, services and partners, please contact Layton Technology at (813) 319-1390 or visit www.laytontechnology.com.

Layton Technology's AuditWizard Provides Advanced IT Asset Management With New On Demand Auditing Feature

TAMPA, Fla.--July 18, 2005--

New Functionality Enables Administrators with Greater Ease, Efficiency and Accuracy in Real-Time

Layton Technology Inc., a global developer of IT auditing and helpdesk software solutions, today announced the immediate availability of AuditWizard 6.3, the company's flagship auditing and asset management solution. The latest version features "on demand auditing" functionality that is designed to provide IT administrators with better control and management when conducting audits of IT assets across the enterprise on a real-time basis, as opposed to having to wait for scheduled audits.

AuditWizard provides comprehensive auditing and management functions that allow network administrators to monitor virtually every type of IT asset across the enterprise including hardware, mobile and removable devices, and software, as well as providing the data to help remain compliant with all of the software licenses in use on the network. By doing so, AuditWizard minimizes time spent trying to figure out what assets exist on the network, enabling IT administrators to utilize their time and resources on other mission critical activities and eliminating business risk to potentially costly external audits due to software license agreement violations.

"Organizations, whether large or small, all face the similar challenge of being able to manage the rapidly growing number of IT assets throughout their computing environment be it hardware, mobile and removable devices, or software and compliance with the corresponding licenses," said Robert Ward, president and CEO, Layton Technology. "The need to perform audits in an easy to use fashion that is practical for the end user, as well as from a fiscal standpoint for the organization, is crucial. AuditWizard provides a simple to use, cost-effective means of accomplishing each of these important objectives."

Within less than one hour of installing AuditWizard, an organization can audit hundreds of PCs across its network. AuditWizard's speed is attributed to the fact that it relies on an intelligent registry scan, as opposed to the more cumbersome techniques that other audit software products utilize via executable searches, which tend to create a high level of redundancies, thereby slowing down performance.

Beyond the newly added on demand auditing capabilities, AuditWizard has proven its value to over 10,000 organizations worldwide by encompassing a rich set of features that include:

-- AlertMonitor Module notifies administrators of software, hardware and Internet activity on all or selected PCs

-- Audits all mobile and removable devices such as PDAs, Blackberry, Smartphones, USB devices, etc.

-- Audits PCs using WMI and SNMP technology

-- Customizable reports and graphs can be generated for any eventuality

-- SQL Server version available for greater scalability

-- Integration with Layton Technology's HelpBox solution

As if the challenge of managing IT assets across the enterprise wasn't enough, with software piracy at an all-time high, organizations today face the possibility of being audited, a process that may yield very costly penalties if they don't meet the requirements of their software licensing agreements.

According to a recent global software piracy study conducted by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), in 2004 more than $59 billion was spent on commercial packaged PC software, yet over $90 billion was actually installed, meaning that more than one-third of all software in use on PCs worldwide is pirated.

In addition to knowing exactly what devices and applications are going in and out of the environment, AuditWizard enables organizations to easily manage their assets and remain in compliance with their software licenses through the use of customizable, detailed reports.

"As SI International has offices at 28 locations throughout the US and more than 2,300 PCs and laptops in use, compliance and reporting was very challenging especially when trying to determine the status of operating system upgrades or verifying software license compliance," said Steve Hunt, vice president and CIO, SI International. "AuditWizard has made our inventory tracking much easier, and with the new on demand auditing capabilities, we don't have to wait for a scheduled audit to be completed and my staff can perform audits on all or part of our network at any time without user intervention."

"Ease of use, low total cost of ownership and optimal levels of performance have been the hallmark of AuditWizard since its inception in 1997," added Ward. "In this competitive marketplace, our development team is always looking for ways to help our customers achieve greater levels of efficiency, and in this latest version we have done just that by adding real-time auditing capabilities, making the user experience even better."

Pricing and Availability

AuditWizard 6.3 offers superior auditing and management functionality at an entry point of $295 for 50 PCs, which includes 60 days of email and phone support, plus any updates or new versions that are released.

AuditWizard 6.3 is available directly through Layton Technology and from Layton Technology's global network of authorized distribution partners.

About Layton Technology Inc.

Layton Technology, a global developer of IT auditing and helpdesk software solutions, delivers solutions designed to optimize the management and efficiency of IT environments across SMB and large organizations. Founded in 1997, Layton Technology is headquartered in Tampa, Florida and serves more than 10,000 customers across the globe. For additional information about Layton Technology and its products, services and partners, please contact Layton Technology at (813) 319-1390 or visit www.laytontechnology.com.

Layton Technology is a global developer of IT auditing and help desk software that is easy-to-use, comprehensive and affordable. The company’s windows-based products enable organizations to manage and internally support their technology assets enterprise-wide, to ensure software license compliance and operate more cost-effectively.