Equifax Secure E-commerce Partners Program Signs Top Internet Security Solution Providers

New members ready for expanding availability of next-generation e-commerce solutions

Atlanta, GA, May 4, 1999 - Equifax Secure Inc., the e-commerce solutions division of Equifax Inc., today announced that six new Internet security solution providers will join the Equifax Secure E-Commerce Partners Program to help enterprises move trusted commerce applications to the Internet and other networks. Diversinet, Entegrity, Information Builders, Worldtalk, New Media Productions and Structured Arts have joined a growing list of technology partners working with Equifax Secure to accelerate the use and acceptance of the Internet for e-commerce.

The Equifax Secure E-Commerce Partners Program provides a single, comprehensive resource for next-generation solutions to facilitate highly secure, private e-commerce over the Internet and other networks. Equifax Secure partners support a variety of applications, including secure electronic mail, secure forms, electronic data interchange (EDI), virtual private networks (VPNs), supply chain management, credit/smart card processing/applications, internet banking, and remote secure access, single sign-on and exchange of authorizations.

"The Equifax Secure E-Commerce Partners Program is important to bringing security, privacy and trust to the Internet through multiple distribution channels," said Vijay Balakrishnan, vice president of marketing for Equifax Secure. "These new partners help continue the momentum to expanding the availability of our solutions that enable enterprises to authenticate consumer identity, protect commerce applications and issue and manage digital certificates.

Existing members of the Equifax Secure E-Commerce Partners Program include the following companies:

• Altiga Networks
• Aventail
• TimeStep
• V-ONE Corporations
• Internet Security Systems (ISS)
• Fusive.com (formerly Internet Communications Network)
• Tri-Sage, Inc.
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers

In addition, Equifax Secure and IBM formed a strategic alliance in June 1998 that utilizes IBM’s Vault Registry technology to issue and manage digital certificates and directory services.

Equifax Secure offers a range of e-commerce services to provide a cost-effective, automated process to authenticate an individual's identity before issuing a certificate; a seamless certificate issuance process; and robust and scalable repositories to manage the life-cycle of large numbers of certificates. The e-commerce solutions support multiple e-commerce applications, including, but not limited to: Consumer Direct: Bill Presentment and Payment and Online Customer Service; Home Banking; and Medical Records Access Control; Intra-Enterprise: Single Sign-On, Employee Benefits Management and Secure Document Exchange; and Business to Business: Purchasing, Procurement and Supply Chain integration.

Equifax Secure Inc. provides next-generation e-commerce solutions that enable enterprises to authenticate consumer identity, secure business applications and manage digital certificates for highly secure, private e-commerce over the Internet and other networks. Equifax Secure e-commerce solutions significantly reduce the risk, cost and complexity of assuring the privacy and security of electronic transactions and are available for companies across a wide range of industries.

Equifax (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 (NYSE: EFX) 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 about 13,000 associates in 18 countries with sales in nearly 50 and has more than $1.6 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" and "Year 2000 Information" sections in the management’s discussion and analysis included at item 7 in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998.

Contacts:

Diversinet Jeff Lewis / HWH Public Relations 212.355.5049, ext 17 jeffl@hwhpr.com		Entegrity Solutions Corporation Bradley Palmer 408.487.8600, ext. 104 bradley@entegrity.com
Information Builders, Inc. Larry Gordon 212.736.4433 larry_gordon@ibi.com		WorldTalk Dawn Harris 408.567.5033 dawn.harris@worldtalk.com
Structured Arts Thane Plambeck, CEO 408.873.7500 x12 thane@structuredarts.com		New Media Productions Steve Mahana 404.603.9001 smahana@nmpnet.net
Equifax Secure Inc. Alan Boyer 770.740-6170 alan.boyer@equifax.com		Equifax Inc. Dave Mooney 404.885-8117 dave.mooney@equifax.com

Comments from new partner companies:

"We are thrilled to partner with the world leader in E-Commerce solutions to distribute our technology. It illustrates the superiority of our permit technology, which has a wide range of applications on the Internet, and in wireless and cable environments as well."
Nagy Moustafa, President and CEO of Diversinet

"We are pleased to be a certified Equifax Secure E-Commerce partner. Equifax Secure customers can now rapidly deploy secured e-mail, Web-based, and custom applications using Entegrity's application solutions and our PKI Software Development Platform (SDP). Together, Equifax Secure's authentication, certificate management and directory services and Entegrity's secured application solutions are an ideal combination for enterprises who wish to quickly build an Internet-based business while prudently managing risk and cost."
Michelle Arden, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Entegrity Solutions, Inc

"As a partner in the Equifax Secure E-Commerce Program, Worldtalk plans to bring together WorldSecure, the industry-leading secure e-mail solution, with Equifax Secure's first-rate remote authentication service. The combined solution is designed to provide a higher level of trust to customers in the financial services, insurance, healthcare and legal industries that need outsourced certificate authority and management services for their electronic commerce and mission-critical applications."
Eric Colard, vice president of business development at Worldtalk Corporation

"As developers of secure business-to-business applications, New Media Productions is excited about the opportunity to provide a cost effective PKI solution to corporations through Equifax Secure’s services. The Equifax Secure solution will allow our clients to consolidate and manage access to a wide range of applications without incurring any of the infrastructure and support costs associated with the deployment of a public key infrastructure."
Al Slamecka, director of Business Development, for New Media Productions

"Equifax Secure is setting a new standard for identifying individuals on the web. This a major step forward in enabling new types of trading communities on the Internet. Our customers want to couple Structured Arts CertKit PKI solutions with the strong authentication mechanisms being delivered by Equifax."
Thane Plambeck, President and CEO of Structured Arts

"We are very excited about our strategic partnership with Equifax. Offering Equifax's secure E-Commerce products and services in conjunction with our EDA Enterprise Integration Middleware and WebFOCUS DSS/OLAP Suite, we provide our customers with end-to-end, secure E-Commerce solutions, leveraging their existing investments in business-critical, enterprise systems."
John Senor, Vice President of Information Builders' EDA Division