CaseCentral Deploys Authentica's PageRecall; Provider Of Web-Based Litigation Extranets Will Use Authentica's DRM Software To Protect Electronic Documents For New DealCentral Service.

Business/Technology Editors

Seybold San Francisco 2001

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2001

Authentica, Inc., the premier provider of digital rights management software for securing business intellectual property, today announced that CaseCentral, a leading provider of Web-based litigation extranets, has selected Authentica's PageRecall(TM) to protect confidential electronic documents for its new DealCentral service for investment banking and financial transactions. Authentica's products will allow DealCentral clients to share sensitive legal documentation in a secure, online environment.

DealCentral offers investment banks, law firms, their clients and partners a single, secure location online for managing, disseminating and collaborating on documentation to accelerate transactions for mergers, acquisitions, venture funding or public offering events. Given the complex nature of these financial transactions, which can involve hundreds of financial and legal professionals and voluminous documents, ensuring secure authentication and control over these documents is absolutely essential.

"Authentica is providing us with a key enabling security technology for our DealCentral service," said Chris Kruse, president and CEO of CaseCentral. "Our Web-based `deal rooms' offer strategic and competitive advantages to our clients, and it is critical that we provide completely secure user authentication and access control to, and use of, these documents."

Using Authentica's patented Active Rights Management(TM) (ARM) technology, PageRecall gives CaseCentral an easy-to-use solution for securely sharing merger, acquisition, venture funding and IPO documentation without surrendering the rights to control how that information is accessed and used after it has been distributed.

Leveraging Authentica's ARM technology, PageRecall allows document owners to actively control whether content can be viewed, printed, copied, saved locally or forwarded in readable form after recipients have it. In addition, information owners can revoke access to, or e-shred, documents wherever they are located. Users can selectively change access or usage policies regardless of where copies of the information are located.

"We are proud to be working with CaseCentral to ensure the security and integrity of such valuable and time-sensitive documents," said Lance Urbas, president and CEO of Authentica. "By using PageRecall, CaseCentral is providing its clients with an unmatched layer of security that prevents unauthorized access to sensitive documents - both inside and outside the DealCentral environment - and ensures that documents are e-shredded at a pre-determined date."

PageRecall is part of Authentica's suite of digital information security solutions, which also includes NetRecall(TM) for Web content and MailRecall(TM) and MailRecall Gateway for e-mail. As an integrated solution, Authentica's products are scalable, easy to use and simple for IT to administer and deploy across the enterprise.

About CaseCentral

CaseCentral is changing the way information-intensive industries work. The company's web-based solution provides clients with unmatched flexibility for managing cases by providing secure anytime, anywhere access to sensitive information in a forum that promotes a more strategic use of time while fostering better communications and collaboration among all team members. CaseCentral currently hosts more than 85 million document pages for its clients, which include 60 of the American Lawyer Top 100 Law Firms and legal departments of leading corporations worldwide. Founded in 1994, CaseCentral is backed by Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), Housatonic Partners, Grove Street Advisors for CalPERS, Crescent Venture Investors, Staenberg Venture Partners, Love Capital Partners, angel investor Audrey MacLean, and the law firms Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich and Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati. CaseCentral is based in San Francisco, with branch offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas and Atlanta. The company can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.casecentral.com.

About Authentica

Headquartered in Waltham, MA, Authentica, Inc. is the premier provider of information security software that lets businesses and organizations protect intellectual property and sensitive information throughout its lifecycle. Based on the company's unique Active Rights Management (ARM) technology, Authentica's suite of enterprise-ready products - MailRecall(TM), PageRecall(TM) and NetRecall(TM) - lets users dynamically control and manage their recipients' "use rights" to information including the rights to view, print, copy, and forward information, no matter where it is located. One of Computerworld's "100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2001," Authentica provides its product suite to the pharmaceutical, legal, financial, and manufacturing industries as well as government intelligence agencies. For additional information, please visit www.authentica.com or contact us at [phone].

Active Rights Management, MailRecall, PageRecall, and NetRecall are trademarks and Authentica is a registered trademark of Authentica, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective companies.

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