Gemplus Partners With Computer Associates to Deliver Portable Digital Certificate Capabilities for eBusiness Security

Business Wire, April 10, 2001

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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2001

Combination Of CA eTrust PKI System And Gemplus Smart Cards Adds

Simplicity and Flexibility to Certificate Deployment

RSA Security (TM),(SM) 2001--Gemplus S.A. (NASDAQ:GEMP), the world's leading provider of smart card solutions, today announced a development partner agreement with Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) to provide a powerful, portable solution for deploying PKI-based digital certificates. This relationship will enable customers to rapidly deploy and effectively manage trusted E-Business identities across the enterprise - including mobile users, such as field sales staff and on-the-go executives.

The new E-Business security solution is based on the integration of CA's state-of-the-art eTrust(TM) PKI system, which manages and administers digital certificates across the enterprise, with Gemplus' popular GemSAFE(TM),(SM) smart card technology, which provides a highly effective and portable solution for implementing digital certificates at the user level. Through integration, customers will gain unparalleled capabilities for seamlessly deploying and managing digital certificates across both their mobile and non-mobile user populations. The combined solution also integrates seamlessly with customers' enterprise and E-Business applications.

"PKI-based digital certificate technology is fast becoming a requirement for the implementation of strong enterprise security. And smart cards provide a secure, portable means for implementing those certificates," said Barry Keyes, CA vice president, Trust solutions. "By integrating GemSAFE smart card technology as a plug-in for CA's eTrust PKI, we are providing our mutual customers with a readily deployable, highly manageable PKI solution."

Through this integration, GemSAFE smart card technology can be also be used with eTrust's leading solutions for secure user enterprise access, such as eTrust SSO and eTrust VPN. The combination of GemSAFE and eTrust provides stronger authentication for users and a secure bridge to existing IT systems and applications.

"As the volume of business conducted digitally grows, effective deployment of PKI technology will become an even more critical issue for companies in every market segment," said Frederic Spagnou, Executive Vice President, E-Business Security and Global Services at Gemplus. "The alliance between CA and Gemplus gives our customers a scalable, flexible solution for PKI deployment that will ensure maximum benefit and minimized cost-of-ownership over time."

Spagnou added that ease of administration is important to control the cost of certificate implementation, and also to ensure E-Business security over time. "As people come and go and E-Business relationships change, corporate security staffs have to maintain rigorous control of new and obsolete identities," he said. "The integrated solution that CA and Gemplus have created fulfills this essential requirement."

It should be noted that certain of the statements contained in this release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of section 27A of The Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors including without limitation customer demand for our products, supply of key components, developments in the market and advances in technology that may cause our or our industry's actual results, levels of activity, or performance to materially differ from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. For a more detailed description of these factors, please see gemplus' most recent filings with the securities and exchange commission. These statements reflect management's current expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date of this release. We are under no duty to update or revise any of the forward-looking statements after this date or to conform such statements to actual results or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated results.

About GemSAFE

Gemplus' GemSAFE Enterprise provides corporations with an integrated security solution including all the hardware and software necessary to enhance an existing PKI, from the development tools and end-user component, to the management and administration system. GemSAFE technology has already been adopted by more than 20 large corporations, worldwide.

About CA eTrust PKI

eTrust PKI is an easily deployable PKI solution for strong authentication of users and management of digital certificates across the enterprise. CA's eTrust solution for PKI facilitates rapid integration with enterprise systems and provides the enterprise administration capabilities that are so critical to effective implementation. For additional information about CA's eTrust solutions, please visit http://ca.com/eTrust.> About Gemplus GEMPLUS: the world's leading smart card solutions provider