Authentica Unveils SafeRoute for Secure Messaging; First Enterprise Secure Messaging Solution to Offer Both Automatic E-mail Security and Desktop Security Options.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 2002

Authentica, Inc., the premier provider of content security software for protecting corporate intellectual property and confidential business information, today introduced Authentica(R) SafeRoute, an enterprise secure messaging solution for guarding sensitive e-mail shared within or outside corporate boundaries. SafeRoute is the first secure messaging solution to provide both automatic e-mail security and the option for individual users to protect their own outgoing messages. SafeRoute gives enterprises a robust yet simple and flexible solution to centrally manage and control corporate e-mail in accordance with established e-mail security and retention policies - without disrupting their existing messaging infrastructure or requiring cumbersome steps for users.

SafeRoute is easy to deploy throughout an enterprise and addresses an organization's diverse requirements for protecting e-mail communications among employees, business partners and customers. Unlike other approaches to secure messaging, SafeRoute offers a wide range of deployment and protection options. Its capabilities include:

-- Flexible Policy Management/Enforcement: Organizations can both centrally enforce e-mail security policies and allow individual users to protect and manage their own messages.

-- Strong Content Security and User Authentication. SafeRoute provides 128-bit data encryption, data integrity verification, and user authentication to protect e-mail wherever it is distributed or stored; leverages user authentication and policy information contained in existing enterprise directories, including Active Directory, Windows NT Domain, Microsoft Exchange, RSA SecurID and any LDAP V3 compliant directory, reducing deployment time and administrative overhead.

-- Flexible Protection Options: Enterprises have a choice between two e-mail protection levels; Secure Delivery for point-to-point message protection, and Secure Content for control of e-mail both during and after delivery.

-- Activity Tracking and Auditing: Organizations can audit and track information including when and how often content is accessed and printed throughout its lifecycle.

-- Ease of Use/Adoption: Senders can easily and securely communicate by e-mail with external users without requiring them to have additional software beyond a standard Web browser.

-- Content Scanning Integration: SafeRoute works with all major content scanning products to automatically scan, encrypt and protect sensitive outgoing e-mail in one seamless process.

"Competitive pressures, government regulations like HIPAA and Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and recent media coverage of sensitive corporate e-mail being exposed, are all driving organizations to focus on secure messaging," said Victor DeMarines, director of marketing at Authentica. "The challenge to date has been finding a solution that can be easily extended to external business partners and customers while avoiding the deployment issues and user complexities associated with existing solutions such as PKI and S/MIME. SafeRoute is the first solution to provide both automatic and user-controlled protection options. It integrates seamlessly with an organization's existing infrastructure and ensures that e-mail is protected in accordance with established corporate security policies."

The healthcare and financial services markets in particular demonstrate the demand for Authentica SafeRoute. In each market, government regulations mandate the protection of personal information transmitted over the Internet. Although e-mail is the most common method for delivering this information, few organizations have been able to provide adequate protection without burdening their IT infrastructure and staff as well as e-mail senders. Authentica SafeRoute provides an interface to any content scanning product so that confidential information can be automatically scanned, encrypted and protected in one seamless process, without user involvement. Organizations no longer need to rely on individual users to protect outgoing e-mail.

"Using the Internet to transmit patient data while meeting HIPAA's mandate to ensure its integrity and confidentiality presents a significant challenge," said Andy Jacobs, senior messaging administrator of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. "Authentica SafeRoute provides us with a solution that is easy for us and our members to use and also offers after-delivery control of content shared internally and with external contractors and business associates."

Flexible Deployment Options

SafeRoute offers four deployment options. This gives enterprises the flexibility to automatically secure business information without any user involvement or to allow individual users to protect and manage their own messages and documents. It can be deployed through:

-- A client desktop using the MailRecall e-mail client plug-in to

protect and control messages wherever they are distributed;

-- The Authentica Secure Gateway to automatically and

transparently protect all outgoing corporate e-mail without

user involvement;

-- A business application to automatically protect and deliver

content via a SOAP API; and

-- A Web interface to enable individual users to log onto a Web

page to send and view files securely.

The SafeRoute messaging solution is part of Authentica's content security suite that also includes PageRecall(TM) for secure document sharing and NetRecall(TM) for secure sharing of Web content. Authentica's products can protect information persistently even after it is downloaded, allowing full control over distribution, printing, expiration and revocation of information.

About Authentica

Headquartered in Waltham, Mass., Authentica, Inc. is a leading provider of content security software for protecting valuable and confidential information shared within and beyond corporate boundaries. The company's suite of enterprise-ready products combines patented dynamic rights management capabilities with industry standard encryption, authentication and access controls. Designed for a wide range of applications, Authentica's products ensure the secure delivery of information and provide continuous control over content even after it's delivered to recipients. Authentica provides its product suite to the healthcare, manufacturing, financial and legal industries as well as government agencies. Authentica investors include 3i US, Symantec Corporation, Canaan Partners, Greylock, Intel 64 Fund, JP Morgan, North Bridge Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Venrock. For additional information, please visit www.authentica.com or contact us at [phone].

Authentica is a registered trademark, and MailRecall, PageRecall, and NetRecall are trademarks of Authentica, Inc. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.