CyberTrust Introduces CyberTrust Secure Extranets.

NEEDHAM HEIGHTS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 1999--

Enabling Businesses to Quickly and Securely Take Advantage of the

Power of the Web by Sharing Sensitive Resources Previously Confined

Within Corporate Walls

CyberTrust(r), A GTE company and a leading enabler of secure extranets and e-commerce, today announced CyberTrust Secure Extranets, the industry's first, fully-integrated, complete offering of products and professional services that enable companies to painlessly and securely extend their high-value business processes to the Internet's World Wide Web. Combining the strengths of a tested methodology, security architecture, hardware and software components, professional services and key partners, CyberTrust's end-to-end solution provides benefits to both business executives and IT managers by enabling companies to securely, confidently and easily transact business, while saving valuable time and resources.

CyberTrust Secure Extranets are a set of high-assurance, customizable and scalable solutions that enable companies across industries and governments to integrate applications that bring valuable corporate information and resources onto extranets, which are protected online environments where parties can do business. Unlike today's extranets, CyberTrust Secure Extranets extend well beyond the minimal security provided by passwords and personal identification numbers (PINs) and leverage CyberTrust's digital certificate expertise to provide secure, reliable, signed transactions and authentication of identities, enabling companies to transact business in the online, electronic world with the same assurances as in the offline paper world.

"CyberTrust Secure Extranets enable companies to quickly and cost-effectively capitalize on the competitive advantages of extranet deployment by extending secure, customized access of corporate resources to partners and customers around the world," said Peter J. Hussey, president of CyberTrust. "Backed by CyberTrust's years of security experience, the solutions offer an easy and reliable way for businesses to leverage the power of the Web by sharing sensitive resources previously confined behind corporate walls."

"GTE CyberTrust's certificate and CA hosting technology enables Ruesch International to conduct high volumes of business-to-business international payment transactions on our RueschLINK extranet, while assuring our clients that this highly sensitive information remains confidential and secure," said Ronald Szoc, senior vice president for Technology at Ruesch International. "CyberTrust's solutions have enabled us to offer this security and assurance faster, saving time and other resources. We can then concentrate on the value proposition of providing international payment solutions for clients, while creating more business opportunities for us. The word `Trust' says it all."

The CyberTrust Secure Extranet Method

Central to CyberTrust's Secure Extranets is the CyberTrust Secure Extranet Method which details the process for deploying secure business-to-business and business-to-consumer, extranets for knowledge, document and supply chain management. Based on hands-on experience with customers, the Method establishes a first-in-market standard for secure extranet deployment. CyberTrust's unique process specifies all the steps necessary to implement a truly secure online business solution, from need assessment to security policy design, application integration and penetration testing.

CyberTrust's ability to deploy scalable, reliable, security solutions is critical to a company's ability to implement a secure extranet. "Succeeding with E-business is no longer a maybe-someday-priority, it is a number one priority," said Jim Hurley, managing director for information security at Aberdeen Group. "Getting to bottom-line E-business depends on a scalable, reliable, safe-enough, flexible-enough, integrated-approach to security for managing many-to-many relationships. And, being able to rapidly deploy, maintain, and upgrade the new E-business systems will require knowledgeable guidance and assistance for most enterprise IS buyers."

CyberTrust Secure Extranets Address Concerns of Business and IT Managers

CyberTrust Secure Extranets begin with a scalable architecture that enables a company to build a common, secure infrastructure for all its extranet requirements, which can grow with the company's business needs. The CyberTrust Secure Extranet components include certification authority (CA), Web server, directory, database, firewall, access control and managed services, making it easy for business managers to provide customized, controlled, secure access to corporate information.

Taking advantage of CyberTrust's broad CA offerings, the architecture capitalizes on the benefits of digital certificates, which are electronic credentials issued by either the CyberTrust CA product or the outsourced CyberTrust CA Hosting Service. Customers have the option of hosting the CA themselves or outsourcing it to CyberTrust's secure facility with a clear path from service to bringing the product in-house. To build a business-strength secure extranet, either CA offering can be integrated with extranet components such as: Netscape's Enterprise Server, Netscape's Directory Server, Isocor's Global Directory, Oracle's RDBMS, and, for access control, Aventail's Extranet Center, Netegrity's SiteMinder or enCommerce's getAccess. Also leveraged in CyberTrust Secure Extranets are the security, connectivity and hosting services of GTE Internetworking.

The resulting solution enables a company to build customer and partner loyalty through personalized service experiences and enhanced usability, while keeping sensitive corporate data secure and creating a digital audit trail to ensure accountability.

CyberTrust Secure Extranet Services and Partners

CyberTrust's Professional Services provides a full range of extranet, network, security and PKI offerings. A key component of the secure extranet strategy includes partnering with world-class systems integrators (SIs) and consulting firms. Together, CyberTrust and its strategic partners can deliver secure extranet solutions and support customers through all phases of extranet deployment.

"CyberTrust's network and security knowledge combined with leading system integrator expertise enables the delivery of a full-scale, best-of-breed extranet solution to companies needing to take high-powered business processes to the Web," said Kurt Long, CEO of OpenNetwork Technologies, a CyberTrust Authorized Partner. "The CyberTrust Extranet Solution is custom designed for individual enterprise needs and is easy to deploy."

Pricing and Availability

CyberTrust Secure Extranet pricing varies depending on implementation. These solutions are available today.

About CyberTrust

CyberTrust is the leading enabler of secure extranets and e-commerce for organizations extending their high-value relationships to the Web. The CyberTrust Secure Extranet Method establishes a first-in-market standard for certificate-enabled extranets that support privilege-based user access, data confidentiality, audit trails and digitally signed, binding transactions. Through the CyberTrust Authorized PartnerS (CAPS) and global alliances network, CyberTrust offers the industry's most complete suite of public key infrastructure-based products, outsourced service and consulting. CyberTrust is a GTE company headquartered in Needham Heights, Mass., with offices in Washington, DC, London, England and Sapporo, Japan. You can learn more about CyberTrust at www.cybertrust.com.

About GTE

With 1998 revenues of more than $25 billion, GTE is a leading telecommunications provider with one of the industry's broadest arrays of products and services. In the United States, GTE provides local service in 28 states and wireless service in 17 states, as well as nationwide long-distance, directory, and internetworking services ranging from dial-up Internet access for residential and small-business consumers to Web-based applications for Fortune 500 companies. Outside the United States, the company serves customers on five continents.