VARBusiness Magazine Awards CipherTrust Its Highest ``5-Star'' Partner Program Rating; Messaging Security Leader Stands Alongside Cisco, CheckPoint, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and other Industry Titans for its Channel Commitment and Innovation

Business Wire, March 22, 2006

ATLANTA -- Continuing a landslide of company and product praise, CipherTrust, Inc., the global market leader in messaging security, today announced that VARBusiness recognized the Company with one of the magazine's most prestigious awards for channel commitment and success. CipherTrust(R) was honored due to its close work with the channel to build both the Company's business and the businesses of its partners.

In its March 20, 2006 issue, VARBusiness delivered CipherTrust a "5-Star" Partner Program award, which singles out the best in vendor partner-program management and the most robust programs in the channel based on independent research. CipherTrust joins the ranks of other highly successful reseller programs at companies like Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and CheckPoint.

"As a front-line solutions provider to our clients, it is very refreshing to have a vendor partner like CipherTrust that understands exactly what is needed in the field to support our joint success," said Jay Gregg, Practice Manager of Information Security with Accudata Systems. "Like its IronMail solutions, CipherTrust's support, research, marketing and sales initiatives are among the best in the industry."

CipherTrust boasts one the most-successful channels in the security industry, with more than 250 channel partners worldwide. In 2005, CipherTrust revenues soared as the Company added hundreds of new customers and more than 100 VARs, resellers and other solution providers to sell and support the Company's comprehensive line of messaging security solutions.

"We are honored that VARBusiness has recognized CipherTrust's individual and company-wide efforts to grow and support the channel," said Mike Van Bruinisse, senior vice president of sales at CipherTrust. "This recognition and our success would be virtually impossible without CipherTrust's dedicated and outstanding channel partners that work hand-in-hand with our customers in 43 countries every day to combat a landslide of messaging security challenges."

In 2006, CipherTrust continues its multi-year sweep of industry and product awards and praise. Network World recently recognized the Company's flagship IronMail(R) gateway appliance with the "Best of the Tests" award in the Messaging category--a designation given to a fraction of the hundreds of products tested annually. In just the past three months, CipherTrust's IronMail has been recognized as a Product of the Year by SearchExchange.com and the 2006 Product of the Year by Information Security/SearchSecurity.com. Additionally, CipherTrust was selected as one of Red Herring magazine's Top 10 Private Security Companies to Watch, as one of TechLINKS magazine's Top Innovators, and won the SC Magazine Excellence award for its CipherTrust Encryption(TM) appliance. For a complete list of awards and praise, visit: www.ciphertrust.com/company/press_and_events/awards_and_reviews.html.> About CipherTrust, Inc.

CipherTrust, Inc., the global market leader in messaging security, provides innovative layered security solutions to stop inbound messaging threats such as spam, viruses, intrusions and phishing, and protect against outbound policy and compliance violations. CipherTrust's integrated best-of-breed capabilities deliver maximum availability and unmatched security, effectiveness and enterprise manageability across multiple messaging protocols including e-mail and instant messaging. Recognized by IDC as the market leader for secure content management appliances, CipherTrust protects the messaging infrastructure of more enterprises than any other vendor, including more than one-third of the Fortune 500. CipherTrust 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.

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