Authentica Launches ASP Alliance Program with Charter Members Corio, Digital Signature Trust Co., and USinternetworking.

Business/Technology Editors

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2000

Program to Further Enhance Existing, World Class Security Measures 

Authentica, the first Internet software company to provide content owners with persistent control over all their valuable digital information, today announced the Authentica ASP Alliance Program. This program will further enhance the extensive security measures already taken by the leading Application Service Providers (ASPs). Customers demand an environment that ensures digital information is absolutely secure and that only authorized parties view, forward or print the information even after it leaves the sender's hands. Charter members of the Authentica ASP Alliance Program, which include industry leaders Corio, Digital Signature Trust Co., and USinternetworking, continue to proactively deploy additional measures to the world's most secure environments, hosted or not.

&uot;We believe more and more customers will want to avail themselves of Authentica's Persistent Information Protection solution using the ASP model,&uot; said Authentica President and CEO Lance Urbas. &uot;In today's digital age, even smaller companies must have an e-commerce strategy

-- now they have a solution.&uot;

With Authentica's ASP Alliance Program, ASPs such as Corio and USinternetworking will host Authentica's software to enable customers to persistently protect and control access to their digital information. In addition, ASP Alliance partners can expand their lead-generating stream through referrals from Authentica's Web site. Protecting and controlling access to information is a top priority of companies and the use of products such as Authentica's PageVault through an ASP give companies another option previously unavailable.

Customers looking to protect and control their information will have a number of options with Authentica's PageVault through ASP Alliance partners. This will enable customers to evaluate their needs and experience the powerful information protection capabilities of Authentica's PageVault. Customers will have the option to purchase the PageVault product outright or if they prefer, to purchase the service through one of the member ASPs who host and maintain the software.

What ASP Alliance Partners are Saying

&uot;From day one, security for clients has been a top priority at USi, from our network's Total Security Architecture to our operations procedures,&uot; said Ronald Freedman, Vice President, Information Assurance. &uot;We are always looking for new technologies and products that allow us to further enhance the robust security program that we have in place to protect our client's sensitive information. By moving beyond the concept of access control to the PageVault technology of persistent control, USi can enable our clients to determine not only who can see sensitive information, but what they are allowed to do with that information.&uot;

&uot;We continually look for ways to augment the security measures we already have in place,&uot; said George Kadifa, CEO of Corio. &uot;With Authentica's PageVault, companies can not only control who accesses their information and limit what they do with that information, they also can track who accesses the information, where, when and how long. This is a function that opens new doors and business opportunities and is really exciting for companies.&uot;

&uot;The Authentica ASP Alliance Program gives us the opportunity to leverage our experience with PageVault into a much broader arena,&uot; commented Scott Lowry, President and CEO of Digital Signature Trust Co. &uot;We have found that the combination of PageVault and the digital certificates we issue produces an environment suited to the protection of high value transactions and authentication.&uot;

About PageVault

PageVault allows &uot;authors&uot; to create Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files that cannot be printed, copied, forwarded, or read in part or in whole by unauthorized users. Individual pages are encrypted with different encryption keys, allowing multiple levels of access within the same document. Each document is digitally signed to ensure integrity. The security features are woven through the file so that they stay with the copy of the file, making the document secure before, during and after delivery.

The availability of Authentica's PageVault through ASP Alliance partners will begin in early Q1 of 2000.

About Authentica

Authentica, Inc., headquartered in Waltham, Mass., is the first Internet software company to provide content owners with persistent control over all their valuable digital information. It was founded in 1997 by several of the same security experts who pioneered the first commercial firewalls and access control systems that are the mainstay of today's electronic information security infrastructure. The company was created to develop and market systems that protect digital information. The company's PageVault product is the only document protection system that inherently and dynamically protects information before, during and after delivery. It is the ideal solution to protect intellectual property, copyrighted materials and sensitive information from unauthorized use, distribution and theft. More information on Authentica and PageVault is available at www.authentica.com.

Note to editors: PageVault is a trademark of Authentica, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.