eTrue and Baltimore Technologies to Partner On Biometric Authentication and Network Access Control Solution

Business Wire, April 10, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2001

eTrue's Managed Biometric Service for Web and Network Logon to be

Combined with Baltimore SelectAccess for Secure Authorization and

Access Control

eTrue, the first biometric authentication service outsourced over the Internet, has announced its partnership with Baltimore Technologies (NASDAQ:BALT; LONDON:BLM), a global leader in e-security. eTrue will integrate its biometric authentication service with Baltimore SelectAccess(TM). The combined offering will provide comprehensive secure access control and authorization management using multiple biometrics, such as face and fingerprint identification.

By combining these two solutions, businesses can provide users with a higher level of trusted access to valuable data and applications on websites and networks. Users will be authenticated using multiple biometrics and then authorized to access data and applications and conduct business in a secure manner. Customers with highly sensitive information, such as those in the healthcare, financial services and government markets, can now have a higher level of security when allowing employees, partners and customers access to business-critical data and applications.

"eTrue's managed service provides an ideal complement to Baltimore SelectAccess," said Joyce Fai, business group manager at Baltimore Technologies. "The blending of these two leading-edge products can offer customers a more robust network access control and authorization management solution. Users can sign on with biometrics and, based on their business roles and privileges, get trusted access to any number of secure data and applications." Baltimore SelectAccess is the only access and authorization management solution built using XML. This offers complete flexibility for data transmission and integration into existing and future applications, whether Web or non-Web based, and provides single sign-on capability across Web-based applications.

"We are pleased to have Baltimore Technologies, a global leader in e-security, as our network access control partner," said David Teitelman, eTrue president and CEO. "Our joint solution will offer users the simplicity, security and speed of biometric logon with the ease of transparent access control. Customers can take comfort that all transactions and communications are secured with Baltimore e-security solutions under the covers. Our partnership also can act as a springboard into additional services and solutions as needed, such as incorporating public key infrastructure capabilities with the award-winning Baltimore UniCERT solution."

One of the major focus areas of the partnership will be healthcare. Federal regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) require health care providers and insurers to put in place audit trails to patient records and more robust access control to increase patients' privacy.

The eTrue Internet outsourcing service authenticates users for both Web and local network logon. Through the use of multiple biometrics, exception handling and a call center, eTrue provides 100% user authentication. The award winning service is hosted by Exodus Communications. eTrue manages the service, 24 X 7, for its customers.

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, access and authorization management solutions, wireless e-security, cryptographic toolkits, content security products, security applications and hardware cryptographic devices. Baltimore's global professional services organization 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(TM) partner 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 more than 1,200 people worldwide and operates from 38 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). For further information, visit www.baltimore.com

ABOUT ETRUE

Headquartered in Southborough, MA, eTrue is the first managed service provider (MSP) of biometric authentication using multiple biometrics. eTrue combines the advantages of the Web and biometrics to offer customers the most reliable way to verify user IDs with the least amount of capital outlay, integration effort, administration, maintenance and risk. eTrue recently received the Frost & Sullivan 2000 Market Engineering Award, which recognizes innovation in US business offerings. eTrue's separate product division, TrueFace, provides the most accurate face recognition software solution for physical access control and automated surveillance. TrueFace solutions are provided either as "turn-key" or customized solutions. For most information, visit www.etrue.com.