AmikaNow! and Authentium Announce Partnership and Speakeasy Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus Server Launch

Ottawa, June 25, 2003 - AmikaNow!, a pioneer in automatic email analysis and compliance solutions for the healthcare, finance, and government sectors, announced today its partnership with Authentium, a leader in email security solutions and their joint launch of the AmikaGuardian™ anti-spam and anti-virus capability for Speakeasy, (www.speakeasy.net) who is the largest, independent broadband ISP in the United States and is processing approximately 1 million emails a day with this product.

Of 11 billion emails exchanged every day (IDC) a staggering 4.1 billion are spam. Email users are being deluged, levels having increased 600% since last year (Mail-Abuse Prevention Systems LLC). The result is higher costs in infrastructure and end user efficiency. Managing spam and adult content ranks higher than viruses as a priority issue for corporate email use, according to a recent Ferris Research survey.

“The cost of spam is staggering, greatly increasing the load on the network, clogging user inboxes and lowering server performance. Spam also increases the email storage burden especially for legislated organizations who are archiving all email, including junk, for 10 years. Add the impact on employee time to scan and delete spam, and email quickly becomes unusable.” said Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima, AmikaNow!’s CEO. “We are very excited about our partnership with Authentium. Their strong sales force and extended distributor network of VARs will help us get the AmikaGuardian to end users at ISPs and in the enterprise very quickly.” added Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima.

“We are really enthusiastic about being part of AmikaGuardian”, said Pete Nielsen, COO and VP Trusted Platforms, Authentium, “It is a totally integrated solution, with a sophisticated real-time content analysis engine from AmikaNow! and the proven Command AntiVirus engine. Together, they improve performance and increase system safety for ISPs, enterprises and end users. We look forward to introducing the AmikaGuardian into more of our ISP and enterprise customers. The launch at Speakeasy proved how well and how quickly our integrated solution can assist end users in sorting out the junk and eliminating viruses from their email.”

About AmikaNow! Corporation

AmikaNow! is a private company that specializes in automatic content analysis customized for email. The AmikaGuardian™ Compliance Server ensures that email complies with legislated privacy requirements and corporate policies, including anti-spam handling, for government, healthcare and financial customers. The AmikaGuardian™ screens both incoming and outgoing email, identifying concepts based on the company’s US-patented content analysis technology. AmikaNow! also markets high performance toolkits that automatically filter, categorize, summarize.

For more information, please visit www.amikanow.com.

About Authentium

Authentium develops and markets comprehensive authentication and data security solutions for networked computing environments, including antivirus solutions for enterprise. Customers include leading ISPs, major education institutions and government agencies, and Fortune 500 companies.

For more information, please visit www.authentium.com.

All copyrights, trademarks and trade names are the property of AmikaNow! and/or Authentium respectively.

Contacts:

AmikaNow! Corporation

Authentium