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Hostasaurus, Inc. announced today that ScanAlert’s Certified PCICompliance service will be bundled at no cost into its ecommercesolution used by thousands of online merchants, allowing them to meetthe June 30, 2005 deadline for compliance with the Payment CardIndustry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

“We selected ScanAlert because its PCI service includes a wealth oftechnical and online support features that other PCI scanning vendorssimply didn’t provide — at a price no one could beat,” saidHostasaurus CEO David Hubbard. “ScanAlert’s easy-to-use service enablesmerchants to quickly understand the PCI requirements and take allnecessary steps to produce a certificate of compliance so they canreturn to focusing on their business.”

“Because Hostasaurus takes its security so seriously, we’ve been ableto easily qualify their merchants,” ScanAlert CEO Ken Leonard added.”Hostasaurus merchants will each save hundreds, if not, thousands ofdollars by using ScanAlert for certification to the PCI standard.”

ScanAlert’s Certified PCI Compliance Service Overview

Certified PCI Compliance is an easy-to-use system of interactive tools,allowing merchants to easily and accurately complete all aspects of thePCI compliance process:

1. Certification of the Merchant’s Business Practices

Participating merchants use a simple interactive online application toassist them in completing the annual PCI Self-Assessment Questionnaire.

2. Certification of the Hostasaurus Ecommerce Platform

ScanAlert conducts daily scans of the Hostasaurus platform, plusquarterly scans of any other network devices used by these merchants tocollect, process or store payment card data, ensuring the very higheststandards of network security to protect card holder data fromunauthorized access.

More information on Certified PCI Compliance, other Internet securityassessment services, and related partnership programs can be found at www.ScanAlert.com. More information about the PCI Standard is available at https://sdp.mastercardintl.com/