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 Adds Preferred Application Interfaces to McAfee E-Business Server Software,
              Enabling Any Industry to Deploy Strong Encryption

   New E-Business Client Software Offers End-Users Drag and Drop Encryption
                                Functionality

    SAN JOSE, Calif., RSA Conference, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
McAfee Security, a division of Network Associates, Inc. (NYSE: NET), today
announced new native application interfaces and E-Business Client software
designed to work with the McAfee E-Business Server solution.  The McAfee
E-Business Server solution, which enables customers to secure data
transmissions using strong PGP encryption, enables any type of business to
send and store encrypted data within the organization or across the Internet.
    "Information-driven businesses have struggled with the alternatives for
quickly, safely, and economically moving information internally within the
organization and externally to and from partners.  Leased-lines are expensive,
VPNs are often seen as too complex, and full-blown PKI initiatives are
outright prohibitive for many organizations," said Eric Hemmendinger, research
director for security and privacy at Aberdeen Group.  "McAfee's E-Business
Server provides on-demand, application-level encryption capabilities that can
be quickly and easily bolted on by developers who are not security experts and
easily invoked by users with minimal training."
    Implementation of the McAfee E-Business Server is simple, now offering
Internet and IT developers new interfaces for the COM, Java or Perl
programming languages.  These native interfaces enable businesses to easily
protect customer and business data by integrating automated encryption within
existing Visual Basic, Perl and Java applications, so that data is protected
even in the event of a security breach on a vulnerable Web server.  Developers
of these applications can easily encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign and
authenticate data transmissions with simple commands within the developer
language they know and prefer, resulting in increased data protection and
better maintainability for any number of industries.
    New McAfee E-Business Client software gives non-technical business
end-users a simple installation, and drag and drop interface to encrypt and
send data.  Using E-Business Client software with the E-Business Server
solution allows corporate end-users to securely exchange data with multiple
partners by using a self-configured pull down menu.  Files encrypted with PGP
can be sent via SMTP e-mail or file transfer protocol (FTP), and audit trails
ensure corporate end-users know that data has been successfully exchanged.
This is useful for companies working toward compliance with industry, partner
or government regulations in industries such as healthcare (HIPAA), finance
(Gramm-Leach-Bliley), online retail (Visa's Cardholder Information Security
Program) and energy (NAESB, formerly GISB).
    "McAfee is continuing to lead the way in developing advanced security
solutions that protect customers from the latest Internet threats, while
saving them time and money," said Jacqueline Bury, product marketing manager
for the McAfee E-Business Server product line.  "The new Native APIs and
E-Business Client software enable businesses to protect data faster, more
completely, and with less specialized and expensive development resources."
    Unlike other security software that only secures data during transit, the
McAfee E-Business Server solution protects data during its entire lifespan,
including as it is stored, processed and transferred over the Internet.
Powered by PGP encryption, the de facto industry standard for encryption used
by more than seven million people worldwide, the McAfee E-Business Server
encrypts data as it is stored on the mainframe or server, including vulnerable
Web servers, adding a layer of security that protects the data from internal
or external attacks and other unauthorized access.  With PGP's 128-bit minimum
encryption and the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) model, data is also
protected during access and while in transit.

    Availability
    The McAfee E-Business Server solution is available today from Network
Associates.  The product is compatible with the COM, Java and Perl application
protocol interfaces (APIs), and supports the AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris,
Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 platforms, offering the widest platform
support available in the industry.  McAfee E-Business Client software
exchanges data with McAfee E-Business Server and is available on Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP platforms.
For more information and pricing, please visit http://www.mcafeeb2b.com or
call 888-VIRUS-NO.
    McAfee Security is a division of Network Associates, Inc. that protects
e-businesses from security breaches and virus attacks.  McAfee has
aggressively focused on the burgeoning mobile and wireless marketplace,
developing the VirusScan Wireless family of products.  McAfee is also actively
addressing the service provider market through McAfee ASaP, which offers
Internet security and virus protection.  All McAfee products are backed by the
world's leading anti-virus research organization, McAfee AVERT (Anti-Virus
Emergency Response Team), the team which first identified Melissa, Bubbleboy
and Phage, the first wireless virus.  For more information, McAfee can be
reached at 888-VIRUS-NO, and on the Internet at http://www.mcafeeb2b.com and
http://www.mcafeeasap.com .
    With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc. is a
leading supplier of network security and availability solutions.  Network
Associates is comprised of three product groups:  McAfee, delivering
world-class anti-virus and security products; Sniffer, a leader in network
availability and system security; and Magic, a leader in innovative service
management solutions.  For more information, Network Associates can be reached
at 972-308-9960 or on the Internet at http://www.nai.com .

    NOTE:  Network Associates, McAfee, PGP, Sniffer, VirusScan, WebShield,
NetShield, GroupShield, PrimeSupport, Enterprise SecureCast and Magic
Solutions are registered trademarks of Network Associates, Inc. and/or its
affiliates in the United States and/or other countries.  All other registered
and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their
respective owners.

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Tony Thompson of Network Associates, Inc.,
+1-408-346-3696, or tony_thompson@nai.com; or Katie Bromley of
Porter Novelli, +1-415-975-2215, or
katie.bromley@porternovelli.com, for Network Associates, Inc.

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