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SCHEDULE 14A
(RULE 14a-101)
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN PROXY STATEMENT
SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION
PROXY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 14(a) OF THE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 (AMENDMENT NO. )
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(Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Information Resource Engineering, Inc.
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[SAFENET/IRE LETTERHEAD]
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Barbara Kunetz
(410) 931-7587
[email protected]
Kendra Boccelli
Blanc & Otus
(617) 225-9990
[email protected]
INSTITUTIONAL SHAREHOLDER SERVICES RECOMMENDS SUPPORT
FOR CURRENT IRE BOARD AND MANAGEMENT
BALTIMORE, Maryland, (July 6, 1998) --- Information Resource Engineering (IRE)
Inc. (NASDAQ/NM:IREG), announced today that Institutional Shareholder Services
(ISS) has recommended that IRE shareholders support management's director
nominees at the Company's annual meeting to be held on July 10, 1998. ISS,
located in Bethesda, MD, stated in its report that it believes that "the company
is on the right track" and recommends that shareholders "vote the WHITE card in
favor of the management director nominees and discard the dissident BLUE card."
ABOUT ISS
ISS is a world leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance
services. ISS analyzes proxy issues and recommends votes for shareholder
meetings throughout the world each year.
ABOUT IRE
IRE, the developer of the first commercial Virtual Private Network (VPN) in 1985
and the first Internet VPN solution in 1995, specializes in offering integrated,
standards-based VPN products for any organization requiring an affordable,
private communications solution over public and shared networks. Based in
Baltimore, MD, IRE offers a broad range of VPN solutions that leverage IRE's
extensive security expertise, featuring the industry's most sophisticated
encryption technology. IRE's solutions are deployed worldwide by many Fortune
1000 organizations, over 1500 banks worldwide, including 13 of the top 15 U.S.
banks, and several government agencies, including the U.S. Treasury and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
SafeNet is a trademark of Information Resource Engineering, Inc.
