Companies Ace Anna Kournikova Virus with EnvoyWorldWide's Industry-Leading Communication Service; F-Secure Uses EnvoyWorldWide's Service to Fight Latest Security Breach.

Business/Technology Editors

BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2001

Network Managers around the world are scoring big wins against the Anna Kournikova virus due to an innovative communications service from EnvoyWorldWide, the leading business-critical communications provider. Using EnvoyWorldWide EnvoyXpress service, F-Secure was able to immediately notify network managers about the virus regardless of where they were located or what wired or wireless device they were using.

EnvoyWorldWide's EnvoyXpress service is a hosted, Web-based, one-to-many communications service providing instant, personalized and simultaneous outbound messaging. F-Secure is utilizing EnvoyWorldWide's newest enhancement, EnvoyProfiles, to power its branded service, F-Secure Radar, which offers customers a subscription fee-based security alert service. Using EnvoyProfiles, F-Secure customers can manage their own service profiles from any Web browser, selecting the security events for which they want to be notified and matching each event with their preferred wireless or wired communications method -- phone, fax, email, pager, SMS, or other wireless device. Messages are delivered through the powerful MessageBlaster engine, yet retain the F-Secure brand identity, an important differentiation given the accountability companies demand related to security.

"Security breaches can occur at any time of the day or night and can spread amazingly fast, costing businesses lots of money, damage and heartache. When a potentially devastating virus, Denial of Service attack or other security breach occurs, we need to quickly notify customers and partners of the breach and solution," said Tanya Candia, vice president of marketing at F-Secure. "The power of EnvoyProfiles is its ability to allow our customers to control how they are contacted for any security breach, ensuring that we are able to instantly deliver vital security information to them. At the same time, EnvoyWorldWide's unmatched customer empowered capabilities and hosted solution allow us to eliminate overhead involved in maintaining alert contact information or in-house software and instead focus on our core competency -- security."

EnvoyProfiles complements EnvoyWorldWide's suite of messaging services consisting of EnvoyXpress, the one-to-many messaging service based on the MessageBlaster engine, and EnvoyXtend, which provides unmatched customization and integration features, including a flexible XML-based API. EnvoyWorldWide announced another enhancement to its service this week at DEMO 2001, the annual conference focused on emerging technologies and new products most likely to have a significant impact on the marketplace and market trends in the coming year. EnvoyXtra provides new intelligent and interactive messaging capabilities, including escalation rules to more fully ensure delivery of time-sensitive messaging, multiple-choice responses for more actionable closed-loop communications and personalized events enabling recipients to customize event parameters for more targeted notifications.

"With our solid experience in the alerting space, companies are consistently turning to EnvoyWorldWide to distribute business-critical information, such as information about the Anna Kournikova virus," said Alain Daste, CEO and co-founder, EnvoyWorldWide. "With customers around the world and millions of messages delivered every year, EnvoyWorldWide stands alone as the only proven market leader in business critical messaging services."

About EnvoyWorldWide

Headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, EnvoyWorldWide offers businesses a flexible, scalable and reliable communications service for distributing time-sensitive and business-critical information. Information is distributed simultaneously to customers, employees, partners and suppliers using each recipient's preferred method of communication. Organizations use EnvoyXpress, the flagship offering from EnvoyWorldWide, for applications ranging from improved resource scheduling and proactive customer notification to product delivery and logistical support. The Web-based service enables organizations to realize lower costs and increased business-to-business communications efficiency. More information on EnvoyWorldWide can be found at www.envoyww.com.