Network World Review Cites CipherTrust's IronMail as a `Favorite' among Dozens of Solutions Tested

Business Wire, Dec 20, 2004

ATLANTA -- Publication Recommends IronMail be Included on "Short List" of Products Evaluated as Part of a Messaging Security Purchase

CipherTrust, the leader in messaging security, today announced that Network World, a respected IT trade publication, has named CipherTrust a "favorite" in an anti-spam and e-mail security review of dozens of messaging security products published in the December 20 issue. The evaluation praises IronMail, CipherTrust's award-winning messaging security appliance, for its comprehensive features, including its reporting and its e-mail secure delivery functionality, and the reviewer noted IronMail should be on the IT manager "short list."

"Network World completed a very rigorous and daunting evaluation, with several rounds of testing. By making it to the final round, IronMail demonstrated tremendous strength as an enterprise-class solution," said Mike Rothman, vice president of marketing at CipherTrust. "IronMail's place on the reviewer's short list of favorites is the latest among many accolades this year, securing CipherTrust's market leadership in the anti-spam and messaging security technology race."

The review covered products' anti-spam techniques, policy-authoring tools and security functionality. In particular, the review noted CipherTrust's secure delivery functionality, which ensures that e-mails are sent with a level of encryption so as to not be read if captured in transport. "It's worth pointing out CipherTrust's Secure Delivery technology," the review states. "Look for this kind of security enforcement to appear in future versions of other products."

The Network World review caps off a landslide year in which CipherTrust garnered significant industry and corporate praise. Three analyst firms, META, IDC and Gartner, named CipherTrust a leader in respective industry or market-wide analyses. eWeek, Federal Computer Week and Computer Reseller News each praised IronMail in product evaluations that noted not only the product's comprehensive security and anti-spam capabilities, but also the value, control and administration ease of an integrated approach. SC Magazine awarded IronMail "Best Buy" honors and five stars out of a possible five on two occasions as part of e-mail security and anti-spam comparative reviews. For more information about those and other CipherTrust awards and reviews, please visit www.ciphertrust.com/company/press_and_events/awards_and_reviews.html

About CipherTrust, Inc.

CipherTrust, Inc. is the leader in messaging security. Recognized by IDC, the Company's award-winning IronMail appliance protects the messaging systems of more enterprise e-mail users than any other solution, including more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100. CipherTrust pioneered messaging security by uniquely combining the five critical e-mail security components of spam and fraud prevention, virus and worm protection, policy and content compliance, e-mail privacy, and intrusion prevention into a single easy to deploy and manage platform. The Company is backed by top tier investors including Battery Ventures and Greylock Partners. For more information about CipherTrust, please visit www.ciphertrust.com or call 877.448.8625.