Public Relations

Announcement of "Connected Car Security Seminar"
- Demonstration of ECU hacking and countermeasures -

May 24, 2017
Asgent, Inc.
(JASDAQ: 4288)

Asgent, Inc. (JASDAQ: 4288, President & CEO: Takahiro Sugimoto, located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo), a pioneer in network security and operations management solutions, announces that a "Connected Car Security Seminar" is to be held, in collaboration with Karamba Security Ltd. (CEO & Co-founder: Ami Dotan, located in Israel) and SCSK Corporation (President and Representative Director: Toru Tanihara, located in Koto-ku, Tokyo), for those involved with automotive and in-vehicle system related companies. The conference will be held on July 3rd (Monday) at Station Conference Tokyo, free of charge, with a capacity of 200.

As automated driving evolves and spreads, cybersecurity is an increasingly important matter of concern, as it directly affects consumers' safety. Cars are on a trajectory of increased connectivity. Whether incorporating a SIM card as a default, V2V and V2X connectivity, and autonomous driving modules, which are scheduled to hit the road in 2020.

Such increased connectivity also increases the risk of cyberattacks, which put consumer safety at risk. As the US former Assistant Attorney General said: "Cyber security for connected and autonomous cars is becoming a critical subject that must be addressed in order to ensure consumer safety and consumers' trust in the new technologies. Traditional network security solutions can detect of attacks but are not trusted to prevent attacks as they are exposed to false alarms (aka "false positives"), which may risk consumers' safety."

Karamba Security, Asgent and Sumitomo's SCSK, are honored to invite you to attend a seminar and a presentation of a new category of security products - Autonomous Security, which was designed to prevent cyberattacks on connected cars with zero false positives and with negligible performance impact. Carwall, Karamba's Autonomous Security product, is now adopted and tested by 16 cars OEMs and tier01 providers. It has the won Frost & Sullivan's Most Innovative Product for the Car Industry award in 2017.

Chris Inglis former deputy chief of the US National Security Agency (NSA) was quoted recently, saying: "Car security must be centered on consumer safety, not data security." "Automotive cybersecurity requires stopping the attack before the hacker succeeds to infiltrate the car. Karamba Security's software turns the tables on attackers, seizing the initiative on the front end of an attack cycle in a reliable, deterministic way - to safeguard people's lives as much or more as the systems they use."

In this seminar, both the future outlook of connected cars, and the importance and methodology of security measures focusing on ECU (Electronic Control Units) will be explained. Ministry of Economy, Trade and Infrastructure, Deputy Director-General, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Mr. Yasuhiro Maeda will a keynote speech on the future outlook for connected cars and the importance of security, and talks will also be given explaining security requirements for the ECU, the keystone in connected car security, and the importance of prevention. Also, House of Representatives member and Chairman, LDP Special Mission Committee on IT Strategy, Mr. Takuya Hirai, as well as Embassy of Israel Economic Department, Minister, Ms. Noa Asher, will be invited to give introductory and opening addresses. A demonstration is also planned to show an ECU actually being hacked, and how this can be prevented.

[Seminar Outline]

[Program]

*Titles, times, agenda are subject to change.