Telstra Selects Baltimore Technologies for Ground Breaking e-Commerce Security Solution

Business Wire, August 31, 2000

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 31, 2000

New Service Offering from Telstra and Baltimore Technologies Will Make

Cutting-Edge E-Security Technology Accessible for Business and

Government

Baltimore Technologies (NASDAQ:BALT)(London:BLM), a global leader in e-security solutions, today announced a significant contract with Telstra (ASX:TLS) to secure Australia's first government-to-government and business-to-government e-commerce system.

The agreement signals Telstra's entry into the commercial Certificate Authority market using Baltimore's UniCERT certificate management system and consulting services. As a result, Telstra will be able to establish an advanced Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) environment for government agencies and businesses requiring the use of government services online.

Baltimore Technologies will host and operate the Telstra infrastructure via Baltimore Certificates Australia(TM) the first private Certificate Authority service in Australia to be awarded national accreditation under the Commonwealth Government's PKI strategy Gatekeeper.

"This world-class accreditation ensures that Telstras Certificate Authority issues digital certificates of the highest standard and integrity for this important market," said John Palfreyman, Managing Director, Baltimore Technologies, Asia Pacific. "PKI has become the cornerstone of e-commerce and enterprise security because of the rigorous and uncompromising standards that are being applied to its design and implementation," said Mr Palfreyman.

"Baltimore's Professional Service consultants have been instrumental in setting many of these benchmarks and will use this experience to ensure that Telstra's own Certificate Authority service quickly achieves full Gatekeeper accreditation."

Gerry Sutton, Executive Director, Telstra Emerging Business, said: "Telstra is providing a significant opportunity for government departments who do not need to deploy their own Certificate Authority service but require the authentication, confidentiality and non-repudiation provided by e-security.

"PKI solutions, employing Digital Certificate technology, is the globally accepted means by which online authentication and robust security is achieved to both protect sensitive information and enable new e-business opportunities over open networks including the Internet."

Baltimore's Mr Palfreyman said, "In adopting Baltimore's e-security solutions, Telstra is providing an important new service that will encourage more on-line interaction within government as well as between government agencies and the Australian business community. This is an important development and Baltimore is proud to be playing a key role to facilitate this."

"These two strategic markets are backed by the Federal Governments online strategy which is designed to stimulate the e-commerce market in the government-to-government and business-to-government market," Mr Sutton said.

Mr Palfreyman noted that the agreement with Telstra was another significant milestone establishing Baltimore Technologies as a leading provider of the core e-security backbone of major global IT and communications networks.

About Baltimore Technologies in Australia

Baltimore Technologies Pty Ltd. employs over 100 people in Australia which includes a team of staff engaged in research and product development for the global market and a team of professionals engaged in e-security consulting, integration, training and support for customers and partners throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Baltimore also operates a digital certificate hosting service, Baltimore Certificates Australia Pty Ltd., for the local market and was the first company to achieve accreditation under the Federal PKI Strategy Gatekeeper. Australian customers include the Australian Tax Office, Australian Payments Clearing Association and the Health Insurance Commission.

About Baltimore Technologies

Baltimore Technologies develops and markets security products and services to enable companies to develop trusted, secure systems for e-business, the Internet and mobile commerce. Its products include a wide range of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) products and services, wireless e-security solutions, cryptographic tool-kits, security applications and hardware cryptographic devices. Baltimore's global professional services organisation offers a wide variety of consulting, training and deployment support to its customers worldwide. Baltimore Technologies markets and sells its solutions worldwide directly and through the TrustedWorld channel program. TrustedWorld includes many of the world's leading technology companies and a wide variety of global, regional and local business alliance partners.

Baltimore Technologies employs over 730 people worldwide and operates from 28 cities, with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland; London, UK; Boston, USA and Sydney, Australia. Baltimore Technologies plc is a public company with dual listings on NASDAQ (BALT) and the London Stock Exchange (BLM).