SAN DIEGO & DANBURY, Connecticut -- March 02, 2004 -- @360, Inc., a provider of secure communication, collaboration and transaction solutions for the enterprise, today announced that they have standardized their Smart Card offerings on the TheseusŪ Platinum secure microprocessor family from Emosyn LLC. @360 chose Emosyn's Theseus Platinum family because of its leading position as a designer of embedded flash memory smart card IC's offered in a wide range of chip features and memory sizes. @360 is propelling smart card applications from stored value and physical access to virtual access. A key benefit of the Theseus Platinum family is higher security, eliminating the possibility of reverse-engineering the smart card code.

"@360 needs a flexible, highly secure microcontroller to facilitate our broad range of leading-edge smart card products", said Joe Kang, CEO of @360. "After evaluating other secure microcontrollers, we found that the Theseus Platinum product line was the best choice. Emosyn's core competency in embedded flash memory design and its future product direction allow us to offer our enterprise customers enhanced transaction and secure access smart cards today and more sophisticated applications in the future."

Phil Barnett, Emosyn's Director of Technology, said, "@360's selection of the Theseus Platinum family is indicative of a trend in high security smart card providers to use technology that enables the smart card to be configured according to the needs of the application. @360 is an innovative developer of advanced smart card applications for the identification and loyalty card market. We are happy to be working with @360." Theseus Platinum products are a powerful, flexible System-on-a-Chip (SOC) designed for the smart card market. These unique products feature flash memory for rapid applications development with inherent security advantages, while eliminating masked-design obsolescence and inventory costs.

Smart cards have advanced significantly from their introduction 20 years ago in Europe as fraud-reduction cards for early electronic banking and public telephones. Based on today's highly secure chips and enhanced software, the next generation of smart card applications and capabilities are limitless. Among @360's up and coming smart card applications are secure virtual access and authentication to enterprise communications networks. The smart card, combined with advanced authentication software, makes it easy and efficient to administer appropriate access to data for the authorized staff and employees in an organization. Other smart card applications facilitate secure online and offline purchasing transactions and provide additional layers of security to identity and access management for government and business by incorporating biometrics technology.


About @360
@360, Inc. (www.at360.com), a San Diego, California-based privately held firm, develops innovative solutions for secure transactions, communication, and collaboration across the enterprise. @360's products include SmartNetSystem™ and the SeCore™ line of secure transaction products designed for the wired and wireless local area network environment.


About Emosyn
Emosyn International (www.emosyn.com) is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer of secure integrated circuits, and a subsidiary of SST International (NASDAQ: SSTI). The Theseus Platinum family is focused on secure transactions, with products aimed at the smart card market. With a design center in San Jose, California; corporate headquarters in Danbury, Connecticut; and sales and marketing offices in Europe and Asia, Emosyn International has a worldwide presence.