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 Gemplus brings safe access to networks for small and medium enterprisesSmall and Medium-Sized Enterprises to benefit from Gemplus’s easy to use solution to enhance the security of their remote connections LUXEMBURG – 11 April 2006 – Gemplus International S.A. (Euronext: LU0121706294 – GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP), a world leading provider of secure-card solutions, today announces the launch of GemEvidence™, a One Time Password (OTP) token-based solution for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs), to improve network security for mobile workers. The GemEvidence™ simple and easy-to-install authentication solution allows Small and Medium Entreprises to roll-out strong authentication tokens to remote and internal users in a cost effective way, while extending the security of smart cards to OTP tokens. Building on Gemplus’s considerable experience in business-to-business and enterprise security, GemEvidence™ allows SMEs to protect the company network from outside attacks and identity theft, by replacing easily defrauded static passwords with a dynamic One Time Password. “Existing secure remote access solutions are aimed mainly at large companies. Due to the direct and hidden costs of such schemes they are not practical for SMEs” explains Marc Chancerel, Enterprise Security Marketing VP, Gemplus. “GemEvidence™ makes it simple for SMEs to deploy, operate and use the same secure scheme, in a seamless and cost effective manner.” GemEvidence™ is an off-the-shelf solution which includes the authentication server, tokens, support and maintenance. An exclusive and innovative installation and provisioning solution is also included allowing the IT staff to simply install, configure and deploy it on top of the Microsoft Active Directory and to provision easily and error-free OTP tokens to employees and partners. Benefits include a controlled Total Cost of Ownership, since there is no client software to maintain, no strict requirement of staff training and no integration costs to bear (only configuration and settings to be defined). GemEvidence Solution will be sold and marketed through Distributors and Value Added Resellers (VARs) members of the Gemplus Expert Network (GEN) or interested to join the GEN program. GemEvidence complements existing Gemplus strong authentication solutions for banks, governments and large corporations such as SafesITe™ and GemAuthenticate™. For more information and to see a demonstration, please visit the Gemplus booth, Stand 514, at Infosecurity Europe, 25-27 April, London, or visit www.gemplus.com/gemevidence
About Gemplus
Gemplus delivers a wide range of secure, portable, personalized solutions in areas including Identity, Mobile Telecommunications, Public Telephony, Banking, Retail, Transport, Healthcare, WLAN, Pay-TV, e-government, and access control. Gemplus' revenue in 2005 was 939 million Euros. For more information: Jane Strachey ©2006 Gemplus. All rights reserved. Gemplus, the Gemplus logo, are trademarks and service marks of Gemplus S.A. and are registered in certain countries. All other trademarks and service marks, whether registered or not in specific countries, are the property of their respective owners. Some of the statements contained in this release constitute forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our or our industry's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activities, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Actual events or results may differ materially. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those estimated by the forward-looking statements contained in this release include, but are not limited to: trends in wireless communication and mobile commerce markets; our ability to develop new technology, and the effects of competing technologies developed and expected intense competition generally in our main markets; profitability of our expansion strategy; challenges to or loss of our intellectual property rights; our ability to establish and maintain strategic relationships in our major businesses; our ability to develop and take advantage of new software and services; and the effect of future acquisitions and investments on our share price. Moreover, neither we nor any other person assumes responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this release speak only as of this release. We are under no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements after this date to conform such statements to actual results or to reflect the occurrence of anticipated results.
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