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P-Synch Licensed by Ford Motor Company

10 November 2000

P-Synch Licensed by Ford Motor Company

    CALGARY, Alberta, Nov. 9 M-Tech Mercury Information
Technology, Inc. is pleased to announce the purchase of their cutting-edge
total password management system, P-Synch, by Ford Motor Company .
    Ford Motor Company, a global leader in the automobile industry, operates
on 6 continents, and is one of the five top Fortune companies in the world,
with nearly 400,000 employees. Over the past century, Ford Motor Company has
grown to offer consumers eight of the world's most recognizable automotive
brands.
    Ford Motor Company's wide-spread and diversified operations are supported
by one of the most diverse computer systems with many platforms and enterprise
applications.
    Ford Motor Company's users require a very scalable and robust password
management system to support their world-wide organization. These requirements
led to the selection of P-Synch as the password management solution to support
all password management functions across the enterprise.
    In order to strengthen network security and minimize the number of
password related calls to their help desk units, Ford Motor Company is
implementing many P-Synch features including:

    -- Bi-directional password synchronization triggered by Windows 2000,
       Windows NT, Netscape LDAP and RACF.
    -- User self-service password reset with authentication based on both
       question and answer profiles and RSA SecurID tokens.
    -- Web-based management of authentication profile data on LDAP.
    -- Web-based help desk password reset facility.
    -- Integration with Remedy ARS, to automatically generate and populate
       call records.

    Idan Shoham, M-Tech's Director of Technology, explained that "P-Synch is
able to offer a complete password management solution to companies as large as
Ford due mainly to its unique and scalable architecture, and the ability to
deliver all functionality without any software being required at the desktop."