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Cooper Power Systems Presents Secure Substation IED Access with Cybectec Enterprise Solutions

Secure Passthrough reduces costs and service restoration delays

Quebec City, January 21, 2008 - Cooper Power Systems, a division of Cooper Industries, Ltd. (NYSE: CBE), announces the introduction of the new Enterprise Passthrough Manager, a module of Cybectec Enterprise Solutions. Enterprise Passthrough Manager provides an enterprise-level secure single point of access to IEDs for maintenance and engineering.

Enterprise Passthrough Manager includes a client, installed on users’ workstations, and a server, installed in a central location, which manages connections between remote IEDs and users on the corporate network. With Enterprise Passthrough Manager, users can access IEDs via native vendor tools, with comprehensive access control.

Cybectec Enterprise Solutions manages all IEDs and communication gateways from one convenient location where device passwords, configuration, history and user access logs are kept.

“With Enterprise Passthrough Manager, authorized users connect to substation devices as if they were in the substation” explains Jonathan Piel, Cooper Power Systems’ Global Product Director of Substation Automation. “Even better, the systems keeps a trace of all communications exchanges with the substation devices, so it’s like having a supervisor looking over every user’s shoulder.”

Enterprise Passthrough Manager’s security features permit choosing access rights in groups or down to the single device. Harmful commands can also be filtered out, to protect IEDs against mistakenly sent commands or internal sabotage attempts.

“Being able to hide IED and gateway passwords from users effectively prevents users from logging on the devices from outside the Cybectec Enterprise Solutions system,” states Pierre-Luc Simard, Technology Architect for the Cybectec product line. “With Cybectec Enterprise Solutions, we are going beyond NERC CIP. We are offering added value to utilities for their investment in a centralized, secure system.”

Cybectec Enterprise Solutions includes automated event retrieval with Enterprise Event Manager and centralized NERC CIP-compliant security with Cybectec Security Server. Utilities that use Cybectec Enterprise Solutions improve the reliability of their network, reduce their downtime and protect their network against cyber-attackers.

Editor’s note: For more information, please contact Tim Rice at Burson-Marsteller, 412-394-6611 or Tim.Rice@Marsteller.com.

About Cooper Power Systems
Cooper Power Systems, Inc., with revenues of approximately $1 billion, is a division of Cooper Industries, Ltd. (NYSE: CBE). Cooper Power Systems is a global manufacturer of world-class power delivery and reliability solutions for the electrical and industrial markets. Through its Energy Automations Solutions group, it is also a leading provider of software, communications and integration solutions that enable customers to increase productivity, improve system reliability, and reduce costs. For more information, go to www.cooperpower.com, www.cannontech.com or www.cybectec.com.

About Cooper Industries
Cooper Industries, Ltd. is a global manufacturer with 2006 revenues of $5.2 billion, approximately 85 percent of which are from electrical products. Incorporated in Bermuda with administrative headquarters in Houston, Cooper employs approximately 31,000 people and operates eight divisions: Cooper B-Line, Cooper Bussmann, Cooper Crouse-Hinds, Cooper Lighting, Cooper Safety, Cooper Power Systems, Cooper Wiring Devices and Cooper Tools Group. Cooper Connection provides a common marketing and selling platform for Cooper’s sales to electrical distributors. For more information, visit the website at www.cooperindustries.com.

For additional information, please contact:

Tim Rice
(412) 394-6611
Tim.Rice@Marsteller.com