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PGP Corporation Awarded Five-Stars for Global Partner Program by Everything Channel

Posted on: Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 07:00 CDT

PGP Corporation Named Emerging Vendor in Security

MENLO PARK, Calif., April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as one of North America's top information-technology (IT) vendors for its Global Partner Program for the second year running. PGP Corporation's partner program was awarded a Five-Star certification in Everything Channel's 15th annual 2009 Partner Program Guide (PPG) in the emerging company category. Additionally, PGP Corporation was named an emerging vendor in security.

PGP Corporation was recognized for its commitment to the channel community and the strength of its partners programs for resellers, IT integrators, technology solution providers, and consultants. This award reinforces PGP Corporation's dedicated focus on building a world-class channel and partner network. In related news, PGP Corporation just today announced an enhanced global channel strategy with new partner-enablement, education training and recruitment programs focused on increasing partner value and delivery. Furthermore, this award compliments the recognition of Lee Finck, senior director of Worldwide Channels at PGP Corporation, as a 2009 Channel Chief by ChannelWeb.com earlier this year. (See today's related press release for more information PGP Corporation's channel strategy, "PGP Corporation Unveils New Encryption Solution to Protect Sensitive Data for Small Businesses and Workgroup Environments.")

"PGP Corporation is honored to be recognized for its success in the channel community," said Lee Finck, senior director of Worldwide Channels, PGP Corporation. "The end-goal of our channel strategy is to enable our partners to easily and effectively deliver industry-leading, data protection solutions to meet the needs of their customers. With PGP Corporation's enhanced channel strategy, we are taking our partner programs to the next level by enabling partners to expand their PGP(R) solutions business into new markets with high-growth opportunities."

According to Everything Channel, PGP Corporation's Global Partner Program has successfully delivered on its promise to provide clarity, consistency and focus for resellers and systems integrators to successfully sell and support PGP(R) solutions. The award-winning program recognizes three partner types with program participation levels designed to provide the resources that partners need to meet customers' security requirements. Additionally, the PGP(R) Global Partner Program includes training, partner technical support, marketing tools and services, partner recognition incentives, and best-in-class PGP(R) encryption solutions and services.

Research for the 2009 Everything Channel Partner Programs Guide and the Everything Channel Five-Star Program was conducted by Everything Channel's Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED). IPED analyzed 130 vendor programs rating vendors' responses to nearly 60 in-depth questions about their partner programs in the six elements of sales support, marketing support, partner profitability, channel operations, communications and partner recruitment. To ensure fair comparisons, companies were placed in one of four categories based on company size. IPED weighted the responses to each question about such program elements as sales support and partner recruitment so that the total weight given to a vendor's answers in any of the six elements can potentially be scored as high as 100. The weighting scheme varies depending on the company size and product type and is based on IPED proprietary analysis methodology and intellectual property. In each of the four company categories, the companies with the highest overall weighted scores received the Everything Channel Five-Star Program designation.

"Now more than ever, the quality of a vendor's partner program determines how profitable its partners will be. So for their commitment to their partners, and their efforts to build quality programs, we congratulate this year's Five-Star Partner Program Guide winners for helping to drive greater revenue in the channel," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel.

The Everything Channel Five-Star Partner Program Guide for 2009 is available online at www.Channelweb.com.

About PGP Corporation

PGP Corporation is a global leader in email and data encryption software for enterprise data protection. Based on a unified key management and policy infrastructure, the PGP(R) Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of integrated applications for enterprise data security. PGP(R) platform-enabled applications allow organizations to meet current needs and expand as security requirements evolve for email, laptops, desktops, instant messaging, smartphones, network storage, file transfers, automated processes, and backups.

PGP(R) solutions are used by more than 80,000 enterprises, businesses, and governments worldwide, including 95 percent of the Fortune(R) 100, 75 percent of the Fortune(R) Global 100, 87 percent of the German DAX Index, and 51 percent of the U.K. FTSE 100 Index. As a result, PGP Corporation has earned a global reputation for innovative, standards-based, and trusted solutions. PGP solutions help protect confidential information, secure customer data, achieve regulatory and audit compliance, and safeguard companies' brands and reputations. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com

Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

United Business Media Limited (UBM) is a global media and marketing services company that informs markets and brings the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business successfully. UBM serves professional and commercial communities, from IT professionals to doctors, from journalists to jewelry dealers, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. UBM employs more than 6,500 people in more than 30 countries. UBM's businesses operating in the US include CMPMedica, Commonwealth Business Media, Everything Channel, PR Newswire, RISI, TechInsights, TechWeb and Think Services. UBM is listed on the London Stock Exchange (UBM.L) and has a market capitalization of $1.6 billion.

Media & Analyst Contacts for PGP Corporation North America Christina Grenier PGP Corporation +1 650 543 3697 cgrenier@pgp.com Tom Rice Merritt Group +1 703 856 2218 rice@merrittgrp.com United Kingdom Jacqui Depares / Richard Scarlett Johnson King +44 (0) 20 7401 7968 pgpteam@johnsonking.co.uk Germany Ingrid Daschner Johnson King +49 (0) 89 8940 8511 ingridd@johnsonking.de

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including statements regarding the availability, plans, delivery, goals, development, expected features, expected benefits and competitive position of PGP products implementing or leveraging the PGP technologies. All references made to product feature enhancements, improvements in Platform support or additional functionality are subject to change at PGP Corporation's sole discretion. All future descriptions of PGP technology and products are subject to availability only if PGP Corporation decides to build them and when PGP Corporation decides to make them commercially available. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that PGP Corporation faces that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with any unforeseen technical difficulties or software errors related to the final development and launch of any of PGP Corporation's products; any technological, regulatory, or standards changes in the security, encryption and authentications market which could make PGP Corporation's products less competitive or require feature changes in these products; any slowdown in the adoption by businesses of encryption suites, secure email, Internet technologies or related standard. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and PGP Corporation does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.

PGP and the PGP logo are registered trademarks of PGP Corporation. Product and brand names used in the document may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Any such trademarks or registered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners.

SOURCE PGP Corporation

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