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Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2001

Oblix Inc., a leading developer of e-business infrastructure software, today announced that CUNA Mutual Group, a leading financial services provider to credit unions and their members worldwide, has selected Oblix NetPoint Web access management (WAM) solution as a key piece of its overall e-business strategy. Oblix NetPoint will deliver Web single sign-on and identity management capabilities to CUNA Mutual's customer base of thousands of credit unions and their members as well as to its own 5,000 employees.

"We needed to provide credit union employees as well as the members they serve, secure access to numerous Web-based applications. We quickly realized keeping user identity information updated was a complex and potentially costly task," stated Steve Devoti, Directory Services manager, CUNA Mutual Group. "Oblix NetPoint was the only solution that provided the advanced identity management functionality to enable us to increase security and drive down the overall cost associated with administering and managing a large user base as well as an application portfolio with complex access control rules."

Oblix NetPoint will be deployed by CUNA Mutual to enable its employees, credit union employees and members to access services and applications that are hosted by the company throughout its extended enterprise. With Oblix NetPoint, CUNA Mutual will automate once manual tasks such as approving changes to user information and password management, thereby significantly reducing the costs associated with their overall e-business infrastructure. The potential of interacting with millions of credit union members through its e-business network heightened the need for a tool capable of dynamically managing this vast user base. Complicating factors are the often unique contractual relationships that are associated with each credit union. CUNA Mutual determined that Oblix NetPoint was the only WAM solution that could address this need through configuration rather than custom programming.

Prior to selecting Oblix NetPoint, CUNA Mutual had evaluated competing WAM product offerings but none had met both its access control and extensive identity management requirements.

"Recognizing that e-business is ultimately built on an identity infrastructure is critical to understanding the power of the Internet," stated Gordon Eubanks, president and CEO, Oblix. "We are very pleased that CUNA Mutual has chosen Oblix NetPoint for their Web access and identity management needs."

About CUNA Mutual Group

The CUNA Mutual Group is the leading provider of insurance and financial services to credit unions and their members worldwide, offering insurance, investment and technological solutions through strategic relationships and multiple service channels. For more information about the CUNA Mutual Group, please visit www.cunamutual.com.

About Oblix Inc.

Oblix Inc. is a leading developer of e-business infrastructure software that securely connects the right people to the right resources on e-business networks. The company's flagship product, Oblix NetPoint, is a Web access management solution that provides an identity infrastructure for e-business. Based on a Web services architecture, Oblix NetPoint includes rich identity management and Web single sign-on functionality. Global corporations such as Amdahl, APL, Applied Materials, Hitachi, i2 Technologies, Intuit, Kinko's, Medtronic, Norsk Hydro, Stanford University, Tellabs, Xerox and many more rely on Oblix solutions. Oblix investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Apax Partners, Van Wagoner Capital Management, Cisco Systems, Intel 64 Fund, Focus Ventures, Credit Suisse First Boston, JP Morgan, Sumitomo Corp. and Novell, Inc. Oblix is headquartered in Cupertino and has offices in North America and Europe. To reach Oblix, please call 408/861-6800 or visit www.oblix.com.

Note to Editors: Oblix Inc., the Oblix logo, Oblix Publisher and Oblix NetPoint are trademarks of Oblix Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.