CyberTrust and enCommerce Partner to Deliver getAccess; CyberTrust and enCommerce Offering Delivers Highly Secure, Scalable Product for e-commerce.

NEEDHAM HEIGHTS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1999--

CyberTrust, a GTE company, and enCommerce, Inc., today announced a global reseller agreement that will provide organizations with a highly secure, scalable product for conducting high-value, personalized business communications and e-commerce transactions. enCommerce getAccess(TM) 3.0 is an integral part of CyberTrust Secure Extranets, the industry's first fully integrated offering of products and professional services for companies that are extending their high value relationships to the Web. CyberTrust and enCommerce will market the integrated solution through their worldwide direct sales forces and global distributors.

This relationship complements CyberTrust's and enCommerce's already proven success in solving the e-business needs of multinational organizations. enCommerce getAccess is the industry's most secure and customizable software product for managing e-business.

"Companies that want their e-business strategies to succeed need to balance the demands for robust, scalable security with personalized interactions that encourage customers and partners to conduct their business communications and transactions online," said Peter Hussey, president of CyberTrust. "enCommerce getAccess complements our industry-leading secure extranet solutions with world-class, Internet-scale software that offers unparalleled capabilities for combining authentication and authorization with personalized content delivery. By integrating getAccess, our digital certificates effectively become passports that welcome users to conduct their business online."

"We are very honored to have CyberTrust, a global leader in secure extranets, select getAccess as the Web access management software to integrate with its best-in-class secure extranet solutions," said Alberto Yepez, president and CEO of enCommerce. "CyberTrust shares our vision of a worldwide, online market that fosters personalized, high-value business transactions--a vision that already has led us to deploy secure, Internet-scale e-business solutions for companies throughout North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Through our partnership with CyberTrust, we can significantly extend this global market reach and deliver on our goal to empower businesses with the infrastructure they need to conduct e-business on an international scale."

Integrated enCommerce-CyberTrust Solution

The integrated enCommerce-CyberTrust solution will provide companies with secure business transactions and communications while making e-business sites accessible and personalized for users. getAccess single sign-on authorization and authentication combined with CyberTrust digital certificates, electronic credentials, means that once users authenticate their identity for a session, they have access to all sites, information and transactions, for which they are authorized. They are not required to re-authenticate themselves each time they go to another part of the Web site. Moreover, companies are freed from having to manage multiple certificates and passwords for each user. getAccess also allows a company to create a personalized view of its portal for each user based on that user's individual relationship with the company. Other key benefits that getAccess brings to CyberTrust are:

-- getAccess facilitates easy migration of users from older, weak security mechanisms such as passwords, to stronger and more reliable modern technology such as digital certificates; passwords can be phased out over time.

-- getAccess eliminates security lapses created between the time a digital certificate is revoked and a new certificate revocation list is published; authorization privileges can be terminated instantly.

-- getAccess supports a wide variety of authentication mechanisms including the X.509 digital certificates issued by CyberTrust's Certification Authority.

getAccess for Easy, Secure Web Access

getAccess is a scalable Web access management solution that accelerates the deployment of secure systems, by providing plug-in authentication, authorization and administration services, which dramatically reduce the time and cost of deploying secure content on the Web. Using defined roles and business rules to authorize users, getAccess creates a customized system that allows the users to sign on once and authenticate themselves via a password, digital certificate or hardware token. They can then access any information they are authorized to see from any Web server or application in the extended organization. getAccess facilitates navigation by presenting users with a personalized menu in their native language, and the menu reflects only the information they are authorized to access.

getAccess enables companies to centralize control while giving departments the flexibility to respond quickly to changing business needs. With getAccess, corporate administrators can centrally define, monitor, enforce and audit information security policies--while delegating specific applications of company policies and practices back to departmental, branch or help-desk administrators. Application-level access is fine-grained and can be controlled down to buttons or fields within Web pages. Meanwhile, getAccess' cross-platform and distributed architecture provides a customizable product required for e-business.

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.

enCommerce, Inc.

enCommerce, Inc. is the leading provider of secure enterprise portal management solutions, which enable e-business by dramatically reducing the time and cost of deploying secure content on the Web. Customers include 3COM, Administaff, Bank of America, Brigham Young University, Chubb Corporation, Marubeni Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation, Montgomery Securities, NationsBank, Nomura International, NTT, One Galaxy Solutions, Orion Capital, The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Quantum, Sprint, UPS, VISA International and Yazaki Corporation. Partners include BEA-WebLogic, Bluestone Software, Core Technology Group, DSS Spain, HaHT Software, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Indus, Inprise, Inso, JapanNet, KPMG, Microsoft, Mitsubishi Corporation, NetDynamics, Netscape, Novell, Oracle, Osaka Gas Information System Research Institute Co., Ltd., PenCom, RSA Data Security, Secure Computing, Security Dynamics, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, VeriSign and Vignette.