Authentica Announces B2B Digital Rights Management Integration with Exchange 2000.

Business/Technology Editors

Microsoft Exchange Conference

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000

Empowers Enterprises to Manage and Protect Intellectual Property

While Sharing Information Across the Internet

Authentica, Inc., the leading provider of digital rights management (DRM) software for protecting B2B intellectual property, today announced the integration of its product suite with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. This enterprise-level integration will allow corporations to:

-- send e-mails and attached documents anywhere (within or beyond their
domains) but recall them anytime.

-- collaborate across company boundaries while determining who has digital
rights to forward, print or copy e-mails and documents.

-- drag and drop Microsoft Office documents into Exchange 2000 folders and
automatically wrap digital rights protection around them.

-- track activities (e.g., reading, printing etc.) associated with those
e-mails and documents.

Authentica uses the Web Storage System and Exchange 2000 Server's enhanced workflow event technology as core building blocks of this global enterprises solution.

"With the launch of Exchange 2000, customers will be looking to Authentica for advanced collaborative solutions that utilize the strength of Exchange 2000's Web Storage System," said Stan Sorensen, group product manager, Server Applications at Microsoft. "Authentica provides knowledge workers the ability to capitalize on Exchange 2000's messaging and collaboration strength to protect and manage digital content."

The growth of the Internet has spawned both an opportunity and a requirement for increasing collaboration within and across corporate domains. As the Internet drives down the time and cost of knowledge worker collaboration across corporate boundaries, companies increasingly face information risks. What if key information leaks to the competition? How do you protect the corporation's intellectual property assets? These are growing issues in today's knowledge-based economy.

With today's announcement, Authentica has automated the process of protecting and managing the digital rights of a corporation's digital property. Authentica uses its Active Key Management technology to enable knowledge workers to distribute e-mail, attached documents and other forms of digital intellectual property while holding dynamic digital rights for managing and changing how the content is used. These powers remain no matter where the content has been distributed over the Internet, greatly lowering the risks associated with Internet-based collaboration.

"We are delighted to have worked closely with Microsoft as an early developer on Exchange 2000," said Lance Urbas, president and CEO of Authentica. "We recognize that global enterprises require the ability to collaborate seamlessly, dynamically and with the proper protection for their intellectual property. We believe that the combination of Exchange 2000 and Authentica's products empowers knowledge professionals to work with greater efficiency and confidence than ever before."

Pricing and Availability

Authentica's products for Exchange 2000 are available immediately. Pricing is based on concurrent user sessions and starts at $5,000(USD) for small configurations. Pricing for larger enterprises depends on the number of users. Separate pricing is available for service providers based on a per month user fee.

About Authentica

Authentica, Inc., headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, is an Internet software company whose products empower business people to share their intellectual property without giving up their rights to determine what happens with it. Authentica's family of enterprise-ready software products gives users the ability to electronically recall or expire e-mails, e-documents and web pages after delivery across the Internet. Authentica also allows users to control their recipients "use rights" to digital information including the rights to view, print, copy/paste and forward information. Authentica's customers include leading corporations in the pharmaceutical, legal, financial and high tech industries and government agencies. More information on Authentica is available at www.authentica.com and 877-532-8060 or 781-487-2600.

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