CSI CONFERENCE, CHICAGO, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –RSA Security Inc. (Nasdaq: RSAS), the most trusted name in e-security(R), today announced the availability of its RSA(R) Smart Badging Solution which is
designed to enable organizations to use one smart card device to access
multiple security applications. Powered by the new release of RSA SecurID(R)
Passage software, version 3.4, the RSA Smart Badging Solution is designed to
combine proximity-based physical access protection with strong network
authentication on a single platform. RSA Security is the only vendor to
offer a multi-application smart card solution that is designed to support
passwords, digital certificates and market-leading RSA SecurID two-factor
authentication technology from the same platform. This multi-application
approach to authentication represents significant strides in achieving single
sign-on for a positive end user experience.

Today, organizations are charged with locking down their businesses, both

physically and electronically. The RSA Smart Badging Solution’s integrated
approach to securing PCs, networks and physical facilities is designed to
consolidate multiple applications – user authentication, digital credential
storage, building access and corporate ID badging – onto one device, which
helps to ease deployment, provide a stronger ROI and reduce administrative
burdens for organizations worldwide. Multi-application smart cards also are
intended to empower employees with access to protected data resources by
offering enhanced security and mobility for their digital credentials and
providing a single sign-on procedure to facilitate usability. Single sign-on,
the Holy Grail of user authentication, ensures a positive user experience and
relieves some of the burdens associated with administration of environments
with multiple authentication procedures (i.e., reduced help desk requirements,
minimal password management, etc.).

“Many enterprises are interested in increasing user convenience and
justifying the cost of strengthened authentication by combining network
access, application access, and building access on a single smart card,” said
Dan Blum, senior vice president, research director at Burton Group. “RSA Smart
Badging Solution merits evaluation because it provides a combined
logical/physical authentication solution, and offers innovative value adds
such as RSA SecurID token compatibility and on-card password storage for
single sign-on purposes.”

RSA SecurID Passage 3.4 software is based on the new RSA SecurID 5100
smart card, a multi-purpose 32K Java card platform, which is designed to
support multiple applications on a single device. This new release of RSA
SecurID Passage software is intended to allow users to use their smart cards
to authenticate to protected applications using passwords, digital
certificates or RSA SecurID token technology. This multi-purpose approach to
authentication support helps enable organizations to implement single sign-on
with varying levels of security based on the value of the resources they are
protecting and the risk threshold they are willing to assume. For example,
they might protect VPN remote access with RSA SecurID tokens, while securing
E-mail applications with digital certificates and protecting network login
with passwords. Regardless, the authentication process is performed
transparently by RSA SecurID Passage software, helping to significantly reduce
the users’ sign-on requirements, thereby improving usability.

RSA Security recognizes the need for digital certificate management –
particularly for organizations in financial services, pharmaceuticals and
government – for protecting classified and sensitive information, ensuring
the integrity and authenticity of the information, and controlling access to
the information and the systems that process and transport this information.
With this in mind, RSA SecurID Passage 3.4 software is designed to combine the
security of smart cards with the strength of digital certificates, providing
digital signing and certificate-based user authentication and log-on to
networks and computer systems. With integrated support for this technology
and its innovative password capture capability, the RSA SecurID Passage 3.4
solution is designed to enable application single sign-on for end users, while
helping ensure enhanced protection for organizations.

“RSA Security understands the need for a holistic approach to
organizational security,” said Bill McQuaide, senior vice president of RSA
Security’s authentication division. “Organizations are concerned with
securing their entire operation, which includes their physical facilities as
well as their electronic resources. The RSA Smart Badging Solution is
designed to help organizations do just that. It’s a single platform that is
intended to enable organizations to efficiently and cost-effectively protect
multiple aspects of their business, while enabling single sign-on for their
end users.”

Pricing and Availability
RSA SecurID Passage 3.4 software will be available in December, 2002. For
more information about RSA SecurID Passage software, please call
1-877-RSA-4900 or visit RSA Security at
http://www.rsasecurity.com/products/securid/smartcards.html.

About RSA Security Inc.
RSA Security Inc., the most trusted name in e-security, helps
organizations build trusted e-business processes through its RSA SecurID two-
factor authentication, RSA ClearTrust(R) Web access management, RSA BSAFE(R)
encryption and RSA Keon(R) digital certificate management product families.
With approximately one billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use
worldwide, more than 12 million RSA SecurID authentication users and almost 20
years of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven leadership and
innovative technology to address the changing security needs of e-business and
bring trust to the online economy. RSA Security can be reached at
http://www.rsasecurity.com.