Check Point Software OPSEC Certifies Business Layers' eProvisioning Solutions.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ROCHELLE PARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2000

Directory-Based eProvisioning

Solutions Now Integrated with Check Point's Secure Virtual Network

(SVN) Architecture

Business Layers, a leading developer of eProvisioning solutions, today announced that it has received OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) certification from Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ:CHKP), the leader in securing the Internet.

As part of the 270-member strong OPSEC Alliance, Business Layers reinforces its commitment to providing customers with open, standards-based solutions that enable the secure, automatic allocation of digital resources according to business priorities.

Business Layers' eProvisioning solutions improve time-to-productivity by securely connecting an organization's employees, customers, and business partners to the necessary devices, applications, systems, and services. With OPSEC certification, Business Layers' eProvision Day One(TM) software will work with Check Point's VPN-1 and FireWall-1(R) solutions, enabling organizations to automatically provide business partners, employees, and customers with the necessary access to internal security resources.

"The OPSEC certification and Business Layers' ability to offer complete interoperability with the Check Point solutions is a major milestone in our efforts to drive eProvisioning solutions into the IT security domain," said Benny Shoham, Vice President of Business Development for Business Layers. "As an OPSEC-certified solution, Day One provides Check Point customers and partners with a powerful tool for eProvisioning, which creates an intelligent bond between business activities and IT security resource provisioning."

"Check Point is pleased to add Business Layers' eProvisioning software to its list of OPSEC certified security solutions," said Bradley Brown, Director of Business Development for Check Point Software. "The integration of Day One with Check Point's SVN architecture enables customers to automate the provisioning of users into their security and IT systems, thus improving the efficiency and reducing costs of these processes."

About Check Point's OPSEC Alliance

OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's leading open, multi-vendor security framework. With over 270 partners, OPSEC guarantees customers the broadest choice of best-of-breed integrated applications and deployment platforms that support Check Point's Secure Virtual Network Architecture. Products that carry the OPSEC Certified seal have been tested to guarantee integration and interoperability. For complete OPSEC Alliance program information including partner and product listings, the freely available OPSEC SDK (software development kit), and evaluation versions of OPSEC Certified products, visit http://www.opsec.com.

About Business Layers, Inc.

Business Layers is a leading developer of eProvisioning(TM) solutions that help organizations implement a core part of their Internet infrastructure. Business Layers' award-winning eProvision Day One(TM) software helps organizations radically improve people's Time-to-Productivity by securely automating the process of allocating IT resources to business partners and employees. Business Layers is leading an initiative to make an open, multi-vendor eProvisioning standard available industry-wide. Information on the ADPr (Active Digital Profile) initiative is available at http://www.adpr-spec.org.

Day One has received the "Category Breaker" award for Applications by Network World magazine, and was recently awarded the Electronic Messaging Association's (EMA) Best of Show award at the Spring 2000 event. In addition, Business Layers has recently been named Internet Company of the Year by the New Jersey Technology Council.

Business Layers investors include Canaan Partners, Novell, Garage.com, Gemini Capital, Formula Ventures, Israel Seed Partners, Ascent Venture Partners, and private investors. With offices throughout North America and Europe, Business Layers is headquartered in Rochelle Park, NJ, and operates engineering facilities in Israel. For more information, contact Business Layers at 877-552-9377, or access the company on the Web at http://www.businesslayers.com.

Business Layers, Inc., the Business Layers logo, eProvisionware, eProvision Employees, ADPr, and "Time-to-Productivity" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Layers, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

(c)2000 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. All rights reserved. Check Point, the Check Point logo, FireWall-1, FloodGate-1, INSPECT, IQ Engine, Meta IP, Open Security Extension, OPSEC, Provider-1, User-to-Address Mapping, VPN-1, VPN-1 Accelerator Card, VPN-1 Appliance, VPN-1 Certificate Manager, VPN-1 Gateway, VPN-1 SecuRemote, VPN-1 SecureServer, Secure Virtual Network and ConnectControl are trademarks or registered trademarks of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. or its affiliates. All other product names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The products described in this document are protected by U.S. Patent No. 5,606,668 and 5,835,726 and may be protected by other U.S. Patents, foreign patents, or pending applications. Internet Security Systems and RealSecure are trademarks, and SAFEsuite a registered trademark, of Internet Security Systems, Inc.