Secure Computing to Deliver Security to ASPs; Secure Computing Integrates SafeWord With HP's e-utilica, E-service Solution

Business Wire, July 20, 2000

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2000

Secure Computing (Nasdaq:SCUR) today announced that it has signed an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Hewlett-Packard Company.

Under the terms of the agreement, Secure Computing's SafeWord(TM) authentication application is to be resold as a standard feature of HP's e-utilica instant e-service solution for Application Service Providers (ASPs).

HP's e-utilica is a pre-integrated solution that enables ASPs to offer businesses instant access to design collaboration applications and scalable compute capacity on a pay-per-use basis, keeping the information technology overhead low and providing a secure platform for e-business. Secure Computing's SafeWord provides positive identification and granular access controls allowing only the right people access to the information and resources they have permissions for. SafeWord also provides HP e-utilica users with a variety of authentication methods including fixed or dynamic passwords, hardware or software tokens, and biometrics.

"For our customers, secure and instant access to a seamless, real-time collaborative design environment is paramount," said Jim Zafarana, worldwide marketing manager for HP's Technical Computing. "Integrating Secure Computing technologies into our new HP e-utilica solution will deliver the enhanced security that these customers are seeking."

"HP e-utilica is a cost-effective, secure, virtual compute solution for ASPs," said Chris Schwartzbauer, vice president of business development at Secure Computing. "Secure's SafeWord authentication technology enables e-utilica to be a safe, secure extranet for all of their e-service customers."

About SafeWord

SafeWord is user authentication, authorization, and accountability (AAA) software that allows your organization to be confident of users' true identities. SafeWord supports a large number of agents -- software modules for use on many different types of servers within your network -- to enable integration with third-party customer applications. These servers can then communicate with the SafeWord server to provide strong authentication to your network users.

About Secure Computing

Headquartered in San Jose, California, Secure Computing Corporation is a global leader in providing safe, secure extranets for e-business. Secure Computing solutions provide authentication, authorization, and secure network access. Secure Computing's worldwide partners and customer base are counted among the Fortune 50 in financial services, healthcare, telecom, communications, manufacturing, technology and Internet service providers, as well as some of the largest agencies of the United States government.

For more information, visit Secure Computing Corporation at www.securecomputing.com, or by calling 800/379-4944, or 408/918-6100.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to the anticipated delivery and relationship of Secure Computing's SafeWord authentication products with HP's e-utilica e-service solution and the expected benefits of such relationship and such statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are delays in product development, competitive pressures, technical difficulties, undetected software errors or bugs, changes in customer requirements, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in Secure Computing's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.