CipherTrust(R) Partner Connection Unveiled to Fuel Rapid Growth of Channel Program

Market Wire, July, 2004

CipherTrust, Inc., the market leader in messaging security, today announced CipherTrust Partner Connection, a collection of tools, resources and incentives that will assist channel partners in providing messaging security solutions to their customers using CipherTrust's IronMail gateway. This collection of resources will enhance CipherTrust's support of its partners in responding to their customers' rapidly growing need for comprehensive e-mail security solutions.

Given the wide variety of threats, such as spam, viruses, directory harvest and phishing attacks, facing enterprise messaging systems, many corporate IT administrators are caught in the middle -- while they recognize e-mail is fundamental to business, they need messaging security solutions to mitigate the risks. With CipherTrust Partner Connection, value-added resellers can respond to customer needs by incorporating CipherTrust's award-winning messaging security product into their offerings.

"We added CipherTrust's IronMail to our arsenal of customer solutions barely three months ago, and it is already Extend's lead product," said Trina Doheny, president of Extend Networks. "The combination of CipherTrust's leading messaging security offering, easy integration and its substantial commitment to channel partners makes IronMail perfect for solutions providers helping customers to build a new generation of safe and reliable e-mail infrastructures."

All participants in CipherTrust Partner Connection receive numerous benefits to assist their customers needing comprehensive e-mail security, including:

Incentives. CipherTrust partners are compensated with cash rewards for their successes. In addition to rewards for meeting specific sales thresholds, CipherTrust is adopting a new Market Development Fund (MDF) program to allow partners to promote IronMail in their regions.

Online Resources. Through the new CipherTrust Partner Connection website, located at www.ciphertrust.com/partnerconnection, partners will find a customized one-stop-shop of all resources needed to attract new customers. Content includes sales collateral, access to support, and an interactive "success thermometer" showing partners' progress towards meeting incentive and MDF goals. In addition, through an established deal registration process, partners can increase their sales commissions when an opportunity is pre-registered through the site.

Communications. CipherTrust will send partners twice-a-month "IronFlash" updates on IronMail features, competitive information and new resources for sales personnel to more successfully sell IronMail.

"As CipherTrust has grown its business to become the market leader in messaging security, our partner program has grown as well, and we now are giving our partners the same resources available to our internal sales force, enabling them to drive a significant portion of our sales," said Ralph Pisani, vice president of channel and business development at CipherTrust. "With the deep resources and incentives we are introducing as part of CipherTrust Partner Connection, partners can easily incorporate our product into their solutions, and help customers battle the myriad of threats facing enterprise e-mail systems today."

The new program includes three levels of partner participation. Authorized Partners and Premier Partners receive varied access to internal technical resources and tiered incentives, MDF, and commission structures depending on sales volume. Our highest level partners, Premier Support Certified Partners, have engineers who completed CipherTrust's certification course and can therefore assist with on-site installations and customer support for IronMail boxes in the field.

CipherTrust has received significant industry accolades for the IronMail appliance in 2004. In June, eWeek named IronMail "Best Overall Solution" in a security group test where the CipherTrust appliance bested both IronPort and BorderWare. SC Magazine awarded IronMail "Best Buy" honors and five stars out of a possible five twice in the past four months, following e-mail security and anti-spam comparative reviews in March and June, respectively. Additionally, CipherTrust was placed in the "Leaders" quadrant of the Gartner Enterprise Spam Filtering Magic Quadrant as published on March 2, 2004.(1) For more information about those and other recent CipherTrust awards and reviews, please visit http://www.ciphertrust.com/company/press_and_events/awards_and_reviews.html

About CipherTrust, Inc.

CipherTrust, Inc. is the market leader in messaging security. The company's powerful, award-winning IronMail appliance combines the five critical e-mail security components of spam and fraud prevention, virus and worm protection, policy and content compliance, e-mail privacy, and secure e-mail gateway capabilities into a single easy to deploy and manage platform. IronMail protects the messaging systems of more enterprise e-mail users than any other solution, including 30 percent of the Fortune 100. CipherTrust's investors include Battery Ventures, Greylock, U.S. Venture Partners, Noro-Moseley and Silicon Valley Bank. For more information about CipherTrust, please visit www.ciphertrust.com or call 877.448.8625.