6 March 2008

TheTrainline, the UK's leading online rail retailer, is pleased to announce that First Ondemand will provide a mobile-phone security solution for Trainline Smart, the ITSO* smartcard system which will be piloted in 2008.

As smartcard ticketing is extended across each UK rail franchise over the next few years, customers will be able to buy their tickets using Trainline Smart. Tickets can be bought online or by mobile phone and then downloaded onto a smartcard either at home with a plug-in reader, or at stations as each train operating company introduces smartcard ticketing. The ticket on the smartcard is validated by touching it against a reader at railway stations fitted with gates, or with a handheld version onboard the train.

First Ondemand's innovative, robust and highly secure system called 'Authentisic MobileT' enables Trainline Smart customers to log on to their online account securely from most mobile phone handsets and see what tickets are on their smartcard. Customers can also manage their account, buy and pay for tickets and renew season tickets using their mobile.

Jeremy Acklam, Business Development Director at TheTrainline, says, "Our customers want to manage their ticket purchase with minimum fuss but with maximum reassurance that the transaction is secure and complete. First Ondemand's 'Authentisec MobileT' secure identity and authentication solution is an enabling technology which provides an essential security layer for TheTrainline's new market leading Smart service."

Stephen Moore, CEO at First Ondemand says, "Smart technology is changing the way the world does business and how companies and people communicate. The popularity of the London Oyster smartcard shows this innovative method of rail ticketing is clearly becoming the delivery channel of choice for many customers. The ability to incorporate an identity and authentication layer brings a greater level of client and customer assurance for transactions through the mobile phone. Trainline Smart has mass market appeal and we are very excited to be part of the project with TheTrainline."

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Notes to the editors:

*Trainline Smart uses ITSO technology, the Government mandated standard for smart card transport ticketing in the UK.

About TheTrainline
TheTrainline is the leading UK rail ticket retailer and rail ticket information provider, offering fast and easy access to timetables, fares, reservations and tickets through its Internet site and contact centre operations in the UK train travel sector. In addition to its own website, www.thetrainline.com, it operates retail websites for 15 Train Operating Companies who sell rail tickets online, as well as providing a rail business travel service direct to a number of blue chip corporations and travel agents.

About First Ondemand
First Ondemand is one of a new breed of innovative security and compliance software technology companies. With broad uncertainty in the market on how to address increasingly complex issues based around securing identities and authentication, First Ondemand have developed, in collaboration with Oracle, a solution that answers many of those problems.

The AuthentisecT solution platform is designed to integrate into new or existing processes and applications. It is highly scalable making it ideal for building new future-facing strategies. This is particularly the case where there is convergence between the physical and digital world. First Ondemand is a member of Oracle's Enterprise Security & GRC Initiative.