lexisONE Announces Alliance With Certia To Provide Secure Digital Delivery.

Business Editors

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2001

lexisONE(SM), the Lexis-Nexis(R) resource for small law firms, has announced an alliance with Certia(TM), provider of the most innovative and advanced solutions available for securing and controlling e-business transactions, to offer its customers secure online delivery of confidential information.

With Certia's CerTrax Managed PKI Service(TM), lexisONE will be offering its more than 40,000 registered users the opportunity to conduct e-business transactions with a new level of confidence. By embedding CerTrax(TM) into lexisONE applications, lexisONE's customer base of legal firms will be able to securely send any type or size of confidential file over the Internet.

"Certia provides lexisONE users with the highest security level currently available for sending electronic documents via email," said Bill Carter, Vice President, Online Services, for Small Law Firm and Government Markets at Lexis-Nexis. "In addition to encrypting email messages and document attachments, Certia manages Private Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates that keep all electronic documents completely hidden until the intended recipient uses their PKI `key' to open the message."

CerTrax also enables customers to control how information can be viewed, duplicated, forwarded, distributed or destroyed - even after a file leaves the desktop. LexisONE is providing its customers with the simplest and most cost-effective method to fully deploy an automated PKI solution for encryption and digital certificate management.

PKI is a global, industry-standard technology that uses asymmetric encryption and digital certificates to achieve secure Internet communication. To date, existing security technologies have been too expensive and too complex to be effectively deployed.

Certia has developed a solution that pre-configures the PKI infrastructure, allowing for the automation and administration of digital certificate management.

LexisONE users will be able to access the CerTrax service to send their email securely from their personalized lexisONE Web page.

"The cost-savings in terms of reduced reliance on express delivery services is just one benefit our customers gain from using CerTrax," said Paul Zoukis, Certia's CEO. "Add to that increased productivity, faster customer service response and unprecedented confidence that comes with knowing you have complete control of the document. Businesses now have the tool they need to establish the trusted relationships and transactions necessary to conduct e-business."

lexisONE offers the most comprehensive collection of free and affordable resources designed specifically for the needs of attorneys in small law firms. The site combines news, information and trend updates for both personal and professional use. lexisONE is part of the Lexis-Nexis Group.

Certia, Inc., based in Herndon, Va., offers a suite of extended PKI solutions that provide organizations with the means to dynamically establish the trusted relationships and transactions necessary to conduct e-business over the Internet.

Whether deployed within the enterprise or used via the CerTrax Managed PKI Service, customers avoid the cost, complexity and administrative burdens typically associated with PKI, without sacrificing any of the benefits. CerTrax easily and permanently secures and controls any file or transaction regardless of type or size.

As a result, customers are able to send, share and sell their confidential and proprietary information over the Internet without fear of disclosure or misuse.