Express DS 255 Gains the Highest Trust of Customers Worldwide FREMONT, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hifn, recently acquired by Exar Corporation (NASDAQ:EXAR), the Company powering connectivity, announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading publication on security-related products and technologies, has named the Hifn Express DS 255 Security Acceleration Card a winner of the 2009 Global Product Excellence in SSL Accelerators Customer Trust Award. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070723/CLM036LOGO) Hifn's power-efficient Express DS 255 not only supports the industry's strongest standards-based encryption protocols, but it offers the highest performance in the smallest form factor of any data security card solution in the market. This combination enables next generation network security applications with an off-the-shelf solution that easily integrates into existing software infrastructure. In addition to securing valuable data, the Hifn Express DS 255 also offers high performance hardware-based lossless compression. This unique combination of compression and security allows users to not only secure data but to manage total cost of ownership by maximizing the efficiency of existing networking and storage resources. "Info Security Products Guide's recognition of the Express DS 255 further validates that our products are best-in-class," said John Williams, Datacom Division VP at Exar. "Security is becoming pervasive throughout the network, and our solution enables customers to seamlessly add not only security but compression without impacting performance." About Info Security Products Guide Info Security Products Guide is a media sponsor of RSA Conference 2009 and Technosium Executive Alliance Forums engaging Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs). As a technology research and advisory publication, it plays a vital role in keeping decision makers and end-users informed of the choices they can make when it comes to protecting their digital resources. You will discover a wealth of information in this guide including tomorrow's technology today, best deployment scenarios, people and technologies shaping info security and independent product evaluations that facilitate in making the most pertinent security decisions. The Info Security Products Guide awards recognize and honor excellence in all areas of information security. To learn more, visit http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/ and stay secured. About Hifn On April 3, 2009 Exar Corporation completed the previously announced acquisition of Hifn Incorporated. For information about Hifn products and services please go to http://www.hifn.com/. About Exar Exar Corporation is Powering Connectivity by delivering highly differentiated silicon, software and subsystem solutions to secure and optimize data for storage and transmission across traditional and packet-based networks. A comprehensive knowledge of end-user markets along with the underlying analog and digital technologies allows Exar to offer innovative solutions to customers in a wide range of markets from enterprise and SMB, to consumer and industrial. Exar has locations worldwide providing real-time customer support to drive rapid product development. For more information about Exar, visit: http://www.exar.com/. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070723/CLM036LOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Hifn CONTACT: Greg Kaufman, +1-510-668-7000 Web Site: http://www.hifn.com/

Copyright