BEDFORD, MA — RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), today announced that Richtek Technology, a leading integrated circuit design company based in Taiwan, has selected the RSA SecurID® Appliance to provide two-factor authentication for secure access to its valuable networked assets increasing customer confidence and positioning the company more competitively in the marketplace.

Richtek designs and tests integrated circuits (IC) and software and required a stronger form of security to protect both its valuable intellectual property generated through R&D and its customers' information. Employees at the company who have access to sensitive corporate information required a much more secure method of authentication than the sole use of usernames and static passwords.

"The lifeblood of our company is the information created through the hard work of our designers and access to this unique data must remain protected during its entire lifecycle. After reviewing several two-factor authentication products, we selected the RSA SecurID Appliance because of its innovative technology - as well as the company's excellent reputation and overall stability - all of which were very important criteria in our decision-making process," said Yungpei Philip Tsai, Director of Knowledge and Information System Management Division at Richtek. "As part of our comprehensive security strategy, our alignment with RSA enhances our reputation through the gain of additional trust from our partners and customers. This resulting increase in confidence from those with whom we conduct business helps our company become even more effective against our competitors."

"The loss of financial assets or personally identifiable information due to a data breach, online attack or the act of a malicious insider is extremely serious, but it is also the loss of an organization's intellectual property that can create some of the most devastating effects. For companies involved in research and design, such as those within the manufacturing and technology industries, their intellectual property can be the precise target of an attack. Protecting these secrets from all points of entry is critical because those who conduct these attacks can either be outsiders or those working on the inside," said Judith Chiu, Country Manager of RSA in Taiwan. "An information infrastructure protected by RSA SecurID technology can provide a company with the necessary confidence that its most precious assets are protected from multiple threat vectors and allow its teams to focus on other areas of the business."

RSA SecurID Appliance The RSA SecurID Appliance is an integrated, rack-mountable hardware appliance that provides organizations of all sizes with a convenient and streamlined version of the RSA SecurID system. The simple-to-manage RSA SecurID Appliance can be deployed in 30 minutes or less and is interoperable with more than 300 products from over 200 certified RSA Secured® technology partners. Two models (RSA SecurID Appliance 130 and RSA SecurID Appliance 250) provide flexible configuration and scalability options for organizations that range from ten-to-millions of users, including large enterprises that require high availability features. The cost-effective RSA SecurID Appliance also provides flexible authentication options for users including hardware, software, or on-demand authenticators.

RSA SecurID® is the market-leading two-factor authentication system used by more 40 million people across more than 30,000 organizations worldwide and is engineered to assure user identities and protect against unauthorized access to applications and resources across numerous physical locations. RSA SecurID technology is comprised of both a broad range of hardware and software authenticators that provide end users with a one time password that is designed to change every 60 seconds, as well as its software engine - RSA® Authentication Manager - which scales to support millions of users and provides the benefit of technical certification with more than 300 products. RSA SecurID authenticators include: hardware tokens, USB-based hybrid authenticator with smart chip; On-Demand token for user access through SMS and e-mail and a business continuity option to provide a temporary, expanded license to support a rapidly expanded remote workforce; software tokens integrated with several third party smart phone platforms and devices including all BlackBerry® handhelds, USB flash devices, biometric devices, and trusted computing platforms; and standalone software tokens that include a Microsoft® Windows® desktop token and an Internet toolbar.

About Richtek

Founded in 1998, Richtek Technology Corporation is an analog IC design company, a pool of experienced, professional, and innovative technologists. Since our start in 1998, Richtek has not only strived for delivering cost-effective power management ICs, but also provides clients with customized system solutions and on site technical services. Richtek is a "power partner." We play an active role in the integration of cutting-edge power management solutions into our clients' latest products. Clients increasingly rely on Richtek's proprietary design-in services in order to integrate advanced power management technologies into new products and launch new products on schedule. These solutions have already made Richtek the world's largest supplier of power management ICs for desktop computer mainboards, as well as a leading provider of power management ICs widely used in handsets, digital still cameras, networked communication equipments, large-sized flat panel displays, notebooks, and much more. For more details, please visit www.richtek.com.

About RSA

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA's information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle - no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.

RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control, data loss prevention, encryption & key management, compliance & security information management and fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and www.EMC.com.