State and Local Governments Choose CipherTrust's IronMail to Fight Spam, Address Policy Compliance

CipherTrust, Inc., the leader in messaging security, today announced that nearly 20 state and local government agencies throughout the United States selected IronMail, CipherTrust's award-winning e-mail security solution, in 2004. State and local government organizations among the more than 1,000 customers using IronMail include Washington State Department of Health; Montgomery County Government, Maryland; Memphis City Schools (Tennessee); the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education; University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Lake Washington School District (Washington); and Dekalb County School System (Georgia).

"As the spam problem has increased exponentially over the past few years, so have the demands from our employees to solve the problem in a simple manner," said Craig Liggett, internet coordinator for the Dekalb County School System in Atlanta, Georgia. "With constricting budgets, it is necessary to find powerful, yet cost-effective ways to manage e-mail and messaging security for our employees. CipherTrust offers us a flexible, yet affordable, secure platform to solve the spam issues we have today and the messaging security problems we may face tomorrow."

Public sector organizations, including primary and secondary educational institutions, and universities, are seeking reliable solutions to address the exponentially increasing rate of spam, viruses and fraud propagating across their e-mail systems. In addition, the need to comply with policies and regulations, such as the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), are impacting government organizations across the country. The entire e-mail infrastructure in public sector organizations must be protected, and these organizations are demanding robust and scalable solutions.

IronMail provides state and local government agencies with powerful technologies to address viruses, worms and spam, while also providing administrators with the flexibility to enforce policies by individual user, group, such as department, college or bureau, or domain. This level of granularity enables organizations to address policy and regulatory requirements that may differ between organizations and even within those very organizations.

Through CipherTrust's TRU (Threat Response Updates), IronMail is optimized to ensure a high spam catch rate and virtually zero false positives, while requiring minimal administration. Moreover, IronMail is completely transparent to the end user, providing a consistent e-mail user experience within state and local government agencies, ensuring e-mail continues as a critical communication tool.

"While CipherTrust has experienced significant success in the large enterprise market with 30 Fortune 100 companies as customers, the company also has a deep understanding of the nuances associated with securing the e-mail of cities, counties, school districts, states and universities, providing a solution unique to their environments," said Joseph Spiccia, CipherTrust director, state, local and public education. "With over a hundred public sector customers, CipherTrust offers the flexibility and scalability necessary to support heterogeneous e-mail and network environments, from school districts to full statewide deployments across multiple departments."

About CipherTrust, Inc.

CipherTrust, Inc. is the 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.

CipherTrust and IronMail are registered trademarks of CipherTrust, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

CONTACTS: Jennifer Martin CipherTrust, Inc. 678-904-9151 jmartin@ciphertrust.com Ross Levanto Schwartz Communications 781-684-0770 ciphertrust@schwartz-pr.com