SAN FRANCISCO, RSA SECURITY CONFERENCE–April 15, 2003– Communicator Inc, a provider of secure communications services to Fortune 1000 companies and cross-enterprise communities will implement the Liberty Alliance Phase 2 specifications into its Hub ID™ Identity Management service. Communicator Inc, a sponsor member of the Liberty Alliance, provides an open and commonly accepted Liberty-enabled platform for companies to build interoperable identity-based Web services.

Communicator Inc plans to incorporate the Phase 2 specifications into Hub ID, which will be featured in the Liberty Alliance’s Public Interoperability demonstration at the RSA Security Conference Tuesday, April 15 at 8:30 a.m. PT. Communicator Inc will also showcase Hub ID in a business-to-business scenario and a business-to-enterprise scenario at the Moscone Center, booth #517.

“Integrating Liberty specifications into Hub ID enables Communicator Inc to quickly and cost-effectively deliver customer solutions that support standards and enable interoperability”, said Serge Shinkar, product manager for Communicator Hub ID. “As we implement Liberty capabilities, our customers are finding additional benefits beyond interoperability. For example, many information providers have discovered that Liberty standards, particularly the Identity Web Services Framework, will allow them to add customer identity information to their existing content distribution channels. This drives revenue growth by moving information providers closer to their end-customers and opening wider distribution opportunities.”

Hub ID is the first Identity Management service that securely manages identities both within and across enterprises in a wide variety of industries, including financial services, government, and life sciences. Hosted and managed by Communicator Inc, Hub ID is based on its Federated Directory™ structure designed by the company in 1999. Communicator Inc recently implemented the Liberty Alliance 1.1 specification in Hub ID reducing the time for companies to join its secure gated communities from several months to just days. Phase 2 Liberty Alliance enhancements will be available to all current Hub ID customers immediately upon implementation.

Liberty Alliance Phase 2 Specifications

The Liberty Alliance Project today announced availability of a public draft of the Phase 2 specifications, which introduces the Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF). ID-WSF outlines the technical components necessary to build interoperable identity-based web services that meet specific business needs and also protect the privacy and security of users’ shared information.

Phase 2 also introduces the Identity Services Interface Specifications (ID-SIS), a collection of specifications that will provide a standard way for companies to build interoperable services like registration profiles, contact books, or calendar, geo-location or alert services.

Finally, Phase 2 updates the first set of Liberty specifications (version 1.1), and uses them as the foundation for the Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF), which provide standards for simplified sign-on and federation or “linking” among disparate accounts within a group of businesses that have established relationships. Please visit www.projectliberty.org for more details on this announcement.

“Communicator Inc has always been a strong supporter of the emerging standards for Identity Management and we are excited to be part of Liberty Alliance’s Public Interop at the RSA Conference,” added Shinkar. “The Interop is a perfect opportunity to showcase the unique and industry-leading capabilities of Hub ID™ and demonstrate how the federated identity management architecture we pioneered is helping to guide the development of these standards. The success our customers have experienced provides proof of concept for this approach to managing identities across enterprises and for the business value we provide in building communities of trust where employees, common customers, partners and suppliers can securely communicate and exchange mission critical information.”

Communicator Inc is encountering demand from companies wanting to extend their content to customers, partners, and suppliers where interoperability, confidentiality and security are crucial. Hub ID’s Federated Directory™ allows each company to maintain autonomy and control of the authentication and authorization of their user identities while letting their users move securely between cross-enterprise applications and Web sites using a single user name and password. Communicator Inc, through Hub ID, acts as an independent, trusted third party, synchronizing the directories of each organization, matching multiple identities of their common users, and facilitating the exchange of encrypted security credentials between them. Hub ID helps companies increase traffic to their applications and Web sites while strengthening their relationships with their customers. Hub ID currently manages more than 400,000 identities across more than 2,500 companies worldwide.

For more information contact Communicator Inc at (914) 872-2800 and sales@communicator.com.

About Communicator Inc
Communicator Inc provides a suite of software tools and secure, managed technology services that connect the right people to the right information in real-time, within and across organizations. The Communicator Hub identity management, content aggregation and messaging products help build strong relationships between companies and their core customers by improving efficiency, reducing costs and protecting client relationships, content and brands. Communicator Inc has been providing its secure communications services to more than 2,000 Fortune 1000 companies and cross-enterprise communities since 1999. Communicator Inc is a privately held company headquartered in White Plains, New York. For more information about Communicator Inc visit www.communicatorinc.com.

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