Digital Defense to Participate in Symitar's 21st Annual Educational Conference and Technology Expo

Digital Defense, Inc., a provider of network security compliance and risk management services, today announced they are exhibiting at the 21st Annual Educational Conference and Technology Expo hosted by Symitar, a Jack Henry & Associates (NASDAQ: JKHY) company. The event will be held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Diego, CA on August 15 - 18th, 2006.

"We look forward to participating in this prestigious event each year. Symitar does a wonderful job at hosting this conference for their clients and associates," stated Larry R. Hurtado, President and CEO of Digital Defense. "The conference provides us with an opportunity to meet with our existing clients in a setting that is convenient for them as well as share our security compliance and risk management service offerings with other conference participants. We continue to invest in our service offerings and our staff training with the objective of continually increasing the value of our services. Our ability to discuss our current service portfolio with conference participants, and more importantly, to listen to the needs of organizations responsible for managing the financial transactions of credit union members in a secure fashion is one that we cherish. We want to continue to provide security compliance and risk management solutions to our clients that are valuable to them, and provide them with clear, consistent high-quality results that are effectively stored, retrieved and delivered rapidly using our state-of-the-art security information management platform called the Network Security Awareness System(TM). This forum helps us to stay on track and we thank Symitar for facilitating this great event."

This year's Annual Educational Conference and Technology Expo features more than 30 one-hour sessions with general, technical and management tracks.

About Symitar

Symitar, a Jack Henry & Associates (NASDAQ: JKHY) company, is a single source for the totally integrated, enterprise-wide automation that credit unions of every size need to execute and maximize their dynamic business strategies. For six consecutive years, Symitar's core processing platforms have been implemented by more credit unions with assets exceeding $25 million than the next five most widely adopted competitive solutions - combined.

Symitar offers two client-centric core-processing solutions designed to support specific operational requirements. These asset-driven systems are collectively serving more than 600 credit unions by blending robust functionality, a competitively distinct suite of fully integrated complementary solutions, in-house and service bureau operating environments, personal service, and integrity-based business relationships.

In 2000, Symitar became a wholly owned subsidiary of Jack Henry & Associates to ensure its viability in the consolidating data processing marketplace. The two companies share a consistent corporate culture and service philosophy, and Jack Henry provides greater integrated access to the complementary products and services that credit unions need to successfully compete in the converging financial services industry.

About Digital Defense

Founded in 2000, Digital Defense, Inc. provides affordable security solutions that allow executives and IT personnel to assess their network security condition, manage their IT risk, and validate deployed infrastructure. Frontline(TM), a web portal supporting a comprehensive suite of security applications, provides access to a superior security information management platform with a trusted and independent team of security analysts who provide continually updated market-specific vulnerability analysis. The Digital Defense team is comprised of recognized security experts who focus on specific markets, through which they garner a better understanding of client needs in an environment of increasingly complex security threats. Based in San Antonio, Texas, Digital Defense has over 400 clients nationwide.

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