nCipher's keyAuthority and SecureDB Named as Finalists in the 2006 SC Magazine Awards

Business Wire, March 1, 2006

CAMBRIDGE, England -- keyAuthority, an enterprise key management solution, named a finalist in the "The Best Enterprise Security Solution" category and SecureDB, a database encryption solution, is a finalist in the "The Best Security Solution" category

nCipher plc (LSE:NCH), a global leader in protecting critical enterprise data, today announced that two of its security solutions have been named as finalists in the 2006 SC Magazine Awards. keyAuthority, nCipher's enterprise key management solution, is a finalist in "The Best Enterprise Security Solution" category and the company's database encryption solution, SecureDB, is similarly honored in "The Best Security Solution" category.

With more than 1,300 product and service nominations from more than 330 competing companies globally, the SC Awards are the world's leading awards program for the information security industry, spanning North America, Asia and Europe.

"The increase in data theft, coupled with the growing number of compliance regulations, has heightened awareness of data-level security. People want to know how to keep information secret and how to control who is able to access critical data. This is creating a tremendous interest in encryption technology," says Richard Moulds, vice president of marketing at nCipher. "We are very proud that our keyAuthority and SecureDB solutions have been selected as finalists for the SC Awards."

Both SecureDB and keyAuthority are enterprise-wide security solutions designed to satisfy the most demanding industry and governmental compliance regulations while making the process of deploying cryptographic security more secure, less intrusive and easier to manage. Each solution delivers unified, fine-grained and auditable security controls to enable organizations to cost-effectively deploy stronger data protection and access control policies.

About SecureDB

SecureDB is an easy-to-deploy database security solution that protects sensitive "data-at-rest" within multi-vendor database environments. SecureDB enables organizations to protect their most critical information assets through fine-grain (column-level) encryption of the most sensitive elements in their databases. It provides a centralized management console that can manage multiple database servers and support database applications from different vendors simultaneously. Used in conjunction with an nCipher hardware security module (HSM), SecureDB delivers a higher level of security with a hardware-protected secure cryptographic key management system. This provides stronger policy management and administration controls.

SecureDB is a core module of the recently launched KeepSecure product suite, which is a complete enterprise-wide data protection solution that provides encryption capabilities at the file and application levels as well as the database level. For more information visit: http://www.ncipher.com/company/pr_view.php?itemid=252

About keyAuthority

Announced in 2005, keyAuthority is the first in a new class of enterprise-wide security management systems that delivers unified, fine-grained and auditable security controls to enable organizations to cost-effectively deploy stronger data protection and access control policies that span traditional application and functional boundaries. keyAuthority consolidates and automates the management of cryptographic keys and credentials in a transparent manner across large and diverse populations of device end-points and applications.

About nCipher

nCipher protects critical enterprise data for many of the world's most security-conscious organizations. Delivering solutions in the fields of identity management, data protection, enterprise key management and cryptographic hardware, nCipher enables businesses to identify who can access data, to protect data in transit and at rest, and to comply with the growing number of privacy-driven regulations. nCipher is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:NCH). www.ncipher.com

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