NYBOR.com to Purchase 5,000 of Equifax Secure's New Organizational
Certificates to Validate Identity for NYBOR.com Customers for Online
Transactions
SAN JOSE, Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA CONFERENCE 2000 -- Equifax Secure,
Inc., a unit of Equifax, Inc. (NYSE: EFX) and NYBOR.com, an Internet and
Intranet solutions provider specializing in the healthcare industry, today
announced a strategic partnership to deliver e-commerce solutions to the
healthcare industry. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Equifax Secure and NYBOR.com announced the agreement during RSA Conference
2000 in San Jose, Calif.
Under the agreement, Equifax Secure will issue more than 5,000 of its new
eBusiness ID(TM) Organizational Certificates on behalf of NYBOR.com's
corporate customers who have purchased InterShield(TM), NYBOR.com's
enterprise-level security tool for managing end-user connectivity to secure
systems including certificates, access levels and logging. NYBOR.com will
join the Equifax Secure eBusiness ID Referral Rewards Program and immediately
begin referring their Web-hosting customers to Equifax Secure for server
certificates that provide low-cost security for e-commerce sites.
"Securing legitimate trading partner access to sensitive information is so
critical to our healthcaare customers that we could only partner with a
company that offered exceptional tools and customer support," said Tim Kenney,
president of NYBOR.com "Equifax Secure's organizational certificate component
completed the InterShield e-business application security paradigm by adding
certificate issuance and support into the tool."
According to The Forrester Report, consumer healthcare e-commerce will
reach $370 billion by 2004. One of the top growth factors includes the
increase in security solutions that ease liability concerns including new
security solutions that reassure consumers and providers that sensitive data
will not fall into the wrong hands. Used to secure business-to-business
e-commerce over the Internet or an extranet, Equifax Secure eBusiness ID
Organizational Certificates enable businesses to identify trusted parties for
transactions initiated over public or private networks.
"An outsourced organizational certificates solution provides a total
certificate authority infrastructure along with our secure and efficient web
server authentication process to issue and manage digital certificates to
legitimate businesses," said Jeff Johnson, general manager of Equifax Secure.
"This infrastructure is critical to securing e-business applications when
organizations engage in transactions over multiple networks."
Equifax Secure eBusiness ID digital certificates offer advanced browser
compatibility, a highly secure and efficient authentication process, timely
delivery to end-users, full technical support for issuance and renewals and
superior customer service.
In 1999, Equifax Secure and the Sun-Netscape Alliance established a
strategic relationship to provide use of Sun-Netscape Alliance's iPlanet
Certificate Management System (CMS) with Equifax Secure's own authentication
technology, eID Verifier(TM), providing a one-stop e-commerce authentication
and digital certificate service.
"The relationship between Sun-Netscape and Equifax Secure represents a
major step forward in Internet security," said Claire Hough, vice president
and general manager of directory and security, the Sun-Netscape Alliance. "It
helps to eliminate barriers to e-commerce and accelerate the use and
acceptance of online business from banking to healthcare."
About NYBOR.com
NYBOR.com is a global provider of leading-edge Internet applications for
the healthcare industry. Headquatered in Williston, Vermont, and with
satellite offices in Boston, Mass., and Tampa, Fla., NYBOR.com has developed a
full line of proprietary, Web-based software that provides the user with
information and security necessary to ensure real-time business efficiency.
NYBOR.com has been providing these cost-effective solutions to vendors, payers
and providers around the country since 1993, enabling them to be more
productive on the Internet. Clients who have benefited from NYBOR.com's
specialized Internet solutions include National Data Corporation, IDX Systems,
Unisys and the American Hospital Association. Additional information is
available at http://www.nybor.com
About Equifax
Equifax Secure, Inc., a unit of Equifax Inc., provides outsourced
e-commerce solutions to enable enterprises to authenticate consumer identity,
secure business applications and manage digital certificates and directories
for highly secure, private e-commerce over the Internet and other networks.
Equifax (http://www.equifax.com ), a worldwide leader in shaping global commerce,
brings buyers and sellers together through its information management,
transaction processing and knowledge-based businesses. Atlanta-based Equifax
serves the financial services, retail, credit card,
telecommunications/utilities, transportation, information technology and
healthcare industries and government. Equifax adds knowledge, expertise,
convenience and security to provide value-added solutions and processes for
its customers wherever they do business, including the Internet and other
networks. Entering its second century in business, Equifax employs more than
13,000 associates in 17 countries with sales in nearly 50 and has more than
$1.7 billion in revenue.
Statements in this press release that relate to Equifax's future plans,
objectives, expectations, performance, events and the like are "forward-
looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Future events,
risks and uncertainties, individually or in the aggregate, could cause actual
results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these
statements. Those factors could include changes in worldwide and U.S.
economic conditions that materially impact consumer spending and consumer
debt, changes in demand for the Company's products and services, risks
associated with the integration of acquisitions and other investments, and
other factors discussed in the "Forward-looking Information" section in the
management's discussion and analysis included at Part II, Item 7 in the
Company's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998, and
in the "Year 2000 Information" section in the management's discussion and
analysis included at Part I, Item 2 in the Company's report on Form 10-Q for
the third quarter of 1999.
Sun/Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, The Network is the Computer and
iPlanet are registered trademarks of the Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United
States and other countries. Netscape is a trademark or registered trademark
of Netscape Communications Corporation in the United States and other
countries.
SOURCE NYBOR.com
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CONTACT:
Sam Kim of Ketchum, 404-877-1873, or
sam.kim@ketchum.com, for NYBOR.com, or Kristin Pratico of
NYBOR.com, 802-879-2069, ext. 222, or kpratico@nybor.com
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