Entrust TruePass™ Receives CATAAlliance Innovation Award for Outstanding Product Achievement

Key component of Entrust® Secure Identity Management Solution recognized for its role in protecting citizen data for world first Statistics Canada On-Line Census initiative

According to John Reid, President of CATAAlliance: "This distinction has been presented to Entrust to honor an outstanding technology engineering development that has resulted in the production of world-class software, Entrust TruePass. The product has proven itself in operation, and its design and market success has enhanced Canada's international reputation for innovation and excellence. We congratulate Entrust on its achievement in helping to secure critical data as part of TeamBCE's Session Encryption with Automated Login (SEAL) project for Statistics Canada's initiative to bring the Census online."

Entrust TruePass software, an important component of the Entrust Secure Identity Management Solution, is a "zero-footprint" solution that helps organizations securely authenticate individuals who want to access sensitive information through their Web portal.  In addition to authenticating end users through digital IDs, Entrust TruePass software can provide an auditable record of transactions through digital signatures, and can protect the privacy of information transmitted end-to-end.  In mid-2002, Entrust TruePass became the first Java-based solution to be accredited with the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-1 validation.

"When Statistics Canada began its initiative to explore bringing the Census online for the convenience of Canadian citizens, one of our key challenges was to keep the highly sensitive citizen data confidential throughout the entire Census process," said Mel J. Turner, Director General, Informatics Branch at Statistics Canada. "Entrust TruePass software gave us the means to accomplish this through its unique bi-directional encryption capabilities. The Entrust TruePass software's innovative and flexible security capabilities have certainly helped Statistics Canada to do its part in driving forward our Government On-line strategy."

"We are very pleased to have the opportunity to work with Statistics Canada on their ground-breaking initiative which continues their tradition of driving leading-edge, high-quality online services to citizens conveniently and securely," said Chris Voice, vice president, Identity Management at Entrust, Inc. "Statistics Canada required strong identity and information security to help enable them to leverage the Internet to improve service delivery and we are proud that the Entrust Secure Identity Management solution was able to assist with this need. This recognition from CATAAlliance belongs to our customers as much as Entrust, and it reinforces our on-going commitment to delivering customer-driven products to market."

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About the Entrust Secure Identity Management Solution
Entrust TruePass software is an integral component of the Entrust Secure Identity Management Solution, which provides a comprehensive and cost-effective solution for securely managing identities and access for users, applications and devices across client-server, Web and Web service architectures. For more information visit:  http://www.entrust.com/identity_management/index.htm 

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