Deloitte & Touche And Access360 Form Strategic Alliance

Business Wire, July 31, 2001

Business Editors

SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2001

Access360s enRole(TM) Technology Supports Deloitte & Touche's

i-MAAP(TM) Identity Management Solution

Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services firms, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Access360, a leading provider of policy-based provisioning solutions.

Access360's provisioning software will be included in Deloitte & Touche's i-MAAP(TM) (identity-Management, identity-Authentication, identity-Authorization, identity-Protection) program. i-MAAP(TM) is the cornerstone of D&T's identity management services and is focused on the integration of information security solutions to help clients identify and integrate user identification management, authentication, authorization and protection solutions with the goal of increasing user satisfaction and productivity.

The i-MAAP(TM) program, offered by Deloitte & Touche's Enterprise Risk Services practice, focuses on the challenges facing many organizations in the area of identity management and provides a range of information security services to help clients maintain efficiency and productivity while creating a secure environment for their users. The program is based on an integrated and unified approach to managing disparate user systems through an "identity" driven infrastructure.

"The addition of Access360's technology to our i-MAAP(TM) program will significantly enhance our ability to address our clients' identity management needs," said Deloitte & Touche principal Fiona Williams. "Their enRole system addresses a need that we have seen across our customer base--the ability to control access rights and the management of the policies governing such access. This system will help Deloitte & Touche design a complete, customer-centric solution."

"We are excited by our alliance with Deloitte & Touche. By working together we can provide customers with a compelling approach to implementing our respective technologies and services," said Dan Jenkins, vice president of channel development for Access360. "EnRole is an excellent fit with Deloitte &Touche's i-MAAP(TM) program. Together, we can provide corporations with the components to help them improve management of user access, whether the users are inside or outside of the firewall."

Deloitte & Touche's services help clients establish connections that are more secure and efficient for their customers, suppliers, investors and employees, all of whom are in need of access to a multitude of applications within one organization, whether Internet, intranet or extranet. Deloitte & Touche's i-MAAP(TM) program includes tools from leading security, e-business and net-service providers.

Access360 offers policy-based provisioning solutions for the enterprise and eBusiness marketplaces. Access360's enRole(TM) provides a centralized control for administration of access rights to multiple platforms; helps organizations tighten security by controlling access rights to enterprise resources; and can reduce operating costs. In addition to the strategic offering with i-MAAP(TM), the alliance establishes Deloitte & Touche as a founding member of Access360's Fusion360 global channel program.

EnRole(TM) provides an additional tool in the i-MAAP(TM) program's identity-Management and identity-Authorization offerings, which matches user roles with access rights and automatically provides users with the designated level of access to a wide variety of computing systems and applications. The enRole(TM) system is designed to accelerate the rate at which users can be granted access to information resources. The system also maintains an audit trail of each change of access rights for every system and reconciles a list of authorized users with active user IDs.

To learn more about Deloitte & Touche's i-MAAP(TM) services, please visit Deloitte & Touche online at www.us.deloitte.com/risk/ebusiness or call 1.800.871.2586.

About Deloitte & Touche

Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services firms, provides assurance and advisory, tax, and management consulting services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 100 U.S. cities. The firm is dedicated to helping our clients and our people excel. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human resources programs, Deloitte & Touche has been recognized as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America" by Fortune magazine for four consecutive years. Deloitte & Touche is the US national practice of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is a Swiss Verein, and each of its national practices is a separate and independent legal entity. For more information, please visit Deloitte & Touche's web site at www.us.deloitte.com.