Validian Provides Update on its Objectives for 2008

OTTAWA, September 24, 2008— Validian Corporation (OTCBB: VLDI), a leader in the protection of digital assets, issued an update on its 2008 strategic objectives to shareholders today. In a formal statement, Bruce Benn, the Chief Executive Officer of Validian, stated: “ We are very pleased with our progress towards our full year objectives . Commencing in the Q2 period:

  • Validian completed a first round of five installations for its latest technology and solutions. These installations provide vital feedback to the company, establish our first reference users and provide additional confidence to our next round of customers
  • Validian continued to refine and broaden the appeal of its products and solutions in response to trial activity, delivering significant upgrades of its primary offerings to evaluation customers.
  • Validian signed two new channel partners that have the capability to showcase the strength of Validian solutions and that can promote the company and its offerings to their respective customer bases.
  • Validian engaged two new sales representatives to focus on developing further opportunities for the company.

“Over the next two months, as we build on these successes and as our 2008 program matures, we will continue to announce additional installations, strategic partnerships and formal launches of our upgraded solutions,” concluded Bruce Benn.

About Validian

Validian Corporation provides comprehensive solutions for the protection of digital information and content while in transit and at rest. Validian solutions can be customized rapidly to the business processes and work flow of the organization to ensure the end-to-end authenticity, integrity and custody of its high value digital assets. A U.S. corporation, Validian has offices in the U.S, Canada and Switzerland.

Safe Harbor Statement

Validian Corporation is a leader in the research and development of innovative application-security and secure data-exchange software and solutions for public and private enterprises. Validian ASI™ is a software-only development and deployment environment that enables secure data exchange to be integrated directly into applications rapidly and easily, lowering development costs. ASI protects against attacks by authenticating applications, and encrypting and decrypting data within applications to ensure data exchanged between trusted applications is always encrypted and never travels in the clear. Cost-effective, simple-to-deploy and easy to manage, Validian solutions also facilitate security audit compliance. A U.S. corporation, Validian has offices in the United States, Canada and Switzerland.

Investor Relations Contact:
Bruce Benn
Validian Corporation
(613) 230-7211 x226
bruce.benn (at) validian (dot) com