Netegrity Announces Support for Liberty Alliance Phase 2 Initiatives; Enables Companies to Lower Cost and Complexity of Federated Security Across Partner Sites.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

RSA Conference 2003

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2003

Netegrity, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETE), a leading provider of identity and access management solutions, and a sponsor member of the Liberty Alliance, today announced support for the Liberty Alliance Phase 2 specifications, which will provide an open and commonly accepted platform for companies and other organizations to build interoperable identity-based Web services. Companies are turning to their partners to help drive down costs while providing greater value and enhanced services to customers and employees. Federated identities help to facilitate seamless partnerships, enabling companies to quickly interoperate without having to replace their existing infrastructure.

Netegrity has been supporting federated services within its SiteMinder(R) product. Netegrity's federated identity and security model helps companies leverage a single unified authentication, single sign-on, authorization, and auditing model to provide shared security services for users to log in once, using a broad range of authentication services. In addition, with support of standards such as SAML, Netegrity is also able to more securely exchange user identities across partner sites, regardless of the infrastructure in place. This enables companies to more quickly and cost effectively provide users with a more seamless and secure experience across the extended enterprise.

Netegrity's customers have been embracing Netegrity's federated identity and security model. One healthcare provider, for example, is using Netegrity's products to help securely exchange identity information with its partner in order to provide their doctors with specialized services in a seamless and cost effective manner. An insurance company is utilizing Netegrity's products to enable their clients to securely access their accounts. Now, for example, the insurance company's client can access their account directly from their own company's Intranet, without having to log in multiple times.

"As companies broaden the reach of their business initiatives to new user constituencies and expand the scope of their business activities across corporate boundaries, federated identity and security becomes critical, " said Bill Bartow, Vice President of Products at Netegrity. "We see tremendous value in what the Liberty Alliance is doing and remain committed to providing our customers with an open, standard approach for identity and access management."

About The Liberty Alliance Phase 2 Specifications

The Liberty Alliance Project today announced availability of a public draft of the Phase 2 specifications which introduces:

-- The Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF) - ID-WSF outlines

the technical components necessary to build interoperable

identity-based web services that meet specific business needs

and also protect the privacy and security of users' shared

information.

-- The Identity Services Interface Specifications (ID-SIS) -

ID-SIS is a collection of specifications that will provide a

standard way for companies to build interoperable services

like registration profiles, contact books, or calendar,

geo-location or alert services.

-- The Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF) - ID-FF provide

standards for simplified sign-on and federation or "linking"

among disparate accounts within a group of businesses that

have established relationships.

Please visit www.projectliberty.org for more details on this announcement.

About Netegrity, Inc.

Netegrity, Inc. is a leading provider of security software solutions that securely manage identities and their access to enterprise information assets, letting business in while keeping risk out. Netegrity provides a comprehensive identity and access management product line for continuously evolving computing environments, including legacy, Web, and service-oriented architectures. Netegrity's flexible, standards-based offerings increase security, reduce administrative costs and enable revenue enhancement. Supported by a vast network of over 1000 trained integration consultants and 200 technology partners, Netegrity solutions are licensed to more than 250 million users at nearly 700 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. Customers include industry leaders such as Aetna, Amazon.com, American Express, Bank One, General Electric, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the Internal Revenue Service, and Wells Fargo. For more information, visit www.netegrity.com.

Netegrity and SiteMinder are trademarks of Netegrity, Inc. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.