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HEIT Launches HEITSecurity Twitter Feed

Release Date: 7/22/2010

HEIT Launches Security Twitter Feed

FORT COLLINS, COLORADO--(July 22, 2010) – HEIT today announced the launch of a security-focused Twitter feed www.twitter.com/HEITSecurity Followers of the HEITSecurity Twitter feed will receive regular updates on security issues affecting Information Technology and particularly those technical security issues impacting the financial industry. With security as one of HEIT’s key focus areas for its financial institution clients, HEIT’s engineers are constantly on the watch for the latest security threats and issues. Constantly evolving audit standards and the requirement to protect their members’ assets makes security a top concern for bank and credit union IT organizations. HEIT’s unique focus on IT and the financial industry and its engineers’ highly specialized knowledge in these areas makes the HEITSecurity Twitter feed a valuable resource for the financial IT industry.

HEIT has been an early adopter of social media technologies and utilizes several Twitter feeds for corporate and executive communications. The new HEITSecurity feed will provide the ability to rapidly communicate important security news and information to HEIT’s clients and the industry. Twitter provides an excellent platform to easily reach a growing Twitter population of technical users:

• Twitter has more than 105 million registered users
• 300,000 new users sign-up per day
• There are 600 million search queries on Twitter per day
• 37 per cent of active Twitter users use their phone or PDA to tweet
• 60 per cent of all tweets come from third-party applications – mobile and web-based

To become a follower of HEITSecurity Twitter (@HEITSecurity), please visit www.twitter.com/HEITSecurity

About HEIT

Financial institutions improve efficiency ratios, performance, and risk management with HEIT's PCS-4 Platform, built exclusively for banks and credit unions to align business technology with business strategy. HEIT provides best-in-class IT performance, compliance, and security managed services to help financial institutions improve profitability and efficiency, reduce risk, and mitigate security threats in the face of market contraction, margin compression, and increasingly complex regulatory environments. Tested as stringently as the most secured financial institution, the platform offers flexible, affordable service levels -- that means HEIT handles risk and technology management so financial institutions can focus on their core business initiatives. Learn more about HEIT at www.goheit.com.

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