Swedish National Labor Market Administration Selects Pointsec and Entrust to Secure Web Services for Employees

Ease of use, low cost and deployment speed are all factors in selecting Entrust Identity¬Guard to secure on-line access to services, to be delivered and implemented by Pointsec.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, February 15, 2005 – Pointsec, the Nordic market leader for Digital Identity solutions, today announced it has been selected by Arbetsmarknadsverket (AMV) – the Swedish National Labor Market Administration, to supply strong authentication for its employees. The solu¬tion selected by AMV, to be delivered and implemented by Pointsec, is based on Entrust Identity¬Guard, a new, innovative product for countering on-line identity theft from TEntrust, Inc. [NASDAQ: ENTU], a Pointsec Strategic business partner and a world-leading provider of Identity and Access Management solutions. Entrust IdentityGuard was selected as it provided the necessary security while allowing AMV to rapidly integrate and deploy the solution at a lower cost than traditional hardware-based authenti¬cation products. AMV’s initial phase of implementation of Entrust IdentityGuard will be to provide stronger authenti¬cation of employees accessing AMV’s e-mail system via the Web. Entrust IdentityGuard provides the perfect combination of security, low cost and ease of use to accomplish this. “Securing the delivery of services to our employees is a very high priority and Entrust IdentityGuard made it possible,” said Bo Magnusson, IS Strategist with AMV. “Entrust’s solution delivers the necessary strong authentication using a method that will be intuitive for all kinds of users. Entrust IdentityGuard was also significantly less expensive than alternative products and was easy to integrate – it was up and running in our environment in less than two days.” With the AMV customer win, Pointsec and Entrust have further cemented their position as leading security providers for organizations preparing to make more and more services available via the Internet. These organizations recognize that online security measures must be taken to protect sensitive information from theft or misuse. Entrust IdentityGuard provides a low-cost and easy to deploy solution to deliver the security that is critical for ensuring that people accessing services and systems are authorized to do so. “The demand for on-line services is also driving the need to secure identities in the face of increas¬ing attack,” said Chris Voice, Vice President of Technology at Entrust. “Entrust IdentityGuard is a key part of our broad set of security solutions, particularly important to customers like Governmental organizations who need innovative, cost effective security solutions to deliver new secure services for their users.” “AMV is a strategically very important customer, and we are looking forward to develop other areas of use together with AMV in the future,” said Thomas Bill, CEO of Protect Data, Pointsec’s parent company. About Entrust IdentityGuard Entrust IdentityGuard provides a simple method of authenticating users by deploying random grids of characters that are in turn used to answer a challenge presented when accessing on-line services. By requiring different combinations from the grid to answer each random¬ized challenge, attackers have little probability of being able to intercept a login and subsequently use it to gain access to a user’s account. Implementing the Entrust IdentityGuard system is made easier for customers by working with their existing applications to add incre¬mental authentication require¬ments to existing username and password deployments. More information on Entrust IdentityGuard is available at: www.entrust.com/identityguard/index.htm. For further information please contact: Marie Thornton, Entrust, Inc. tel: +44 (0) 118 902 2004, e-mail: marie.thornton@entrust.com Thomas Bill, CEO, Protect Data AB tel: +46 8-459 54 95 / +46 70-542 62 71, e-mail: thomas.bill@protectdata.com Rolf Bergström, Managing Director, Pointsec Sweden AB tel: +46 8-459 54 13 / +46 733-56 54 13, e-mail: rolf.bergstrom@pointsec.com