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Entrust Achieves OPSEC Certification from Check Point Software

Entrust Authority Solution Integrates with Industry's Most Recognized Security Framework

DALLAS - FEBRUARY 20, 2003 - Entrust, Inc. [NASDAQ: ENTU], a leading global provider of Internet security solutions and services, today announced it has achieved OPSEC™ (Open Platform for Security) certification for Entrust Authority™ Security Manager 6.0 from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. [NASDAQ: CHKP], the worldwide leader in securing the Internet.

OPSEC certification validates that Entrust Authority continues to seamlessly integrate with Check Point's market-leading VPN-1®/FireWall-1® Next Generationä solution, providing customers with a scalable public key infrastructure (PKI) authentication solution. The Entrust Authority architecture extends across many applications, including VPNs and firewall applications, to securely authenticate Internet communications.

"Our Entrust Authority 6.0 solution has successfully undergone rigorous testing to achieve OPSEC certification," said Nigel Johnson, vice president of product management at Entrust. "Our solution combined with Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 Next Generation offers customers a secure digital identity solution for strong authentication, which is an essential business requirement in today's Internet economy."

"PKI is a critical component of a company's security infrastructure, providing enterprise customers with a scalable authentication solution when deploying large-scale VPNs," said Upesh Patel, group manager of the OPSEC Alliance for Check Point Software Technologies. "OPSEC certification assures our mutual customers that Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 Next Generation and Entrust Authority Security Manager 6.0 are well integrated and will seamlessly interoperate."

The Entrust Authority portfolio is the backbone of Entrust's digital identity-based Internet security offerings. As the market-leading product in its category, the Entrust Authority portfolio of software enables identification, entitlements, verification and privacy by providing security management to applications in a consistent, transparent and automated way.

About Check Point's OPSEC
OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's open, multi-vendor security framework. With over 325 partners, OPSEC provides customers the broadest choice of best-of-breed integrated applications and deployment platforms that support Check Point's Secure Virtual Network Architecture. Products that carry the OPSEC Certified seal have been tested to ensure integration and interoperability. For complete OPSEC Alliance program information, including partner and product listings, the freely available OPSEC SDK (software development kit) and evaluation versions of OPSEC Certified products, visit http://www.opsec.com.

About Entrust
Entrust, Inc. [Nasdaq: ENTU] is a leading global provider of Internet security solutions and services that make it safe to do business and complete transactions over the Internet. Entrust has the industry's broadest set of identification, entitlements, verification, privacy and security management capabilities. More than 1,500 major corporations, service providers, financial institutions and government agencies in more than 40 countries use the security provided by Entrust's portfolio of award-winning technologies. For more information, please visit http://www.entrust.com/

Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. In Canada, Entrust is a registered trademark of Entrust Limited. All Entrust product names are trademarks of Entrust, Inc. or Entrust Limited. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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