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PGP Corporation Named Best Security Company Finalist And PGP Desktop Professional 9.0 Chosen Best Encryption Product Of The Year

Posted on: Thursday, 15 December 2005, 18:00 CST

PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data security and encryption solutions, announced today that for the second consecutive year, it has been named a finalist in the Best Security Company category of the SC Magazine Global Awards for 2006. The 2006 finalists were chosen from more than 1,300 nominations from 300 companies. The only global awards program for the information security industry, the SC Magazine Global Awards were enhanced in 2006 to reflect technical excellence around the world as well as professional achievement and the important role information security professionals play in helping to shape the industry. The U.S. Award winners will be announced at an event in San Jose, California, on February 14, 2006.

PGP Corporation also announced that PGP(R) Desktop Professional 9.0 has been chosen as the 2005 Best of the Year encryption solution by PC Magazine. According to the December 27, 2005 article announcing the winners, PGP Desktop Professional, "brings high-power encryption technology within reach." The 2005 winners were selected from more than 1,000 products in 10 categories. In September, PC Magazine gave PGP Desktop Professional an "Excellent" rating, awarding it 5 out of a possible 5 stars.

"We are delighted that PGP Desktop has been included in the ranks of the best technology products for 2005," said Steven Schoenfeld, vice president of products and strategy for PGP Corporation. "The mission of PGP Corporation is to provide innovative, easy-to-use solutions that give more people access to encryption technology. This recognition from PC Magazine validates our commitment to developing the products, functionality, and versatility organizations need to secure their confidential, proprietary, and private information."

PGP Desktop Professional provides organizations a stand-alone desktop encryption solution that protects confidential data in email and in files; secures data on mobile computing devices; facilitates compliance with existing and emerging regulations for information security; and enables organizations to comply, at the individual desktop level, with the information security requirements of business partners.

PGP Desktop Professional 9.0 is part of the PGP Universal(TM) encryption platform that is capable of provisioning 10 encryption applications in a combination of gateway and endpoint locations. This "deploy-once, enable over time" approach allows enterprises to address their greatest risks today and grow into a comprehensive security solution over time.

About PGP Corporation

The global customer standard for encryption and digital-signature solutions, PGP Corporation develops, markets, and supports an integrated data security suite used by more than 30,000 enterprises, businesses, and governments worldwide, including 84% of the Fortune(R) 100, 66% of the Fortune(R) Global 100, and thousands of individuals and cryptography experts. Customers depend on PGP solutions for regulatory and audit compliance, to protect confidential company information, to secure customer data, and to keep identity information private.

During the past 10 years, PGP(R) technology has earned a global reputation for innovative, standards-based, trusted solutions. The flexible PGP suite allows customers to phase-in gateway, partner, mobile or internal email security; data storage protection for laptops, desktops, and removable media; IM encryption; and FTP/batch transfer security using a single key management and recovery infrastructure. PGP Corporation is the only commercial security vendor to publish source code for peer review. Contact PGP Corporation at http://www.pgp.com/ or +1-650-319-9000.

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, including PGP Universal, PGP Corporate Desktop, PGP Workgroup Desktop, PGP Personal Desktop, and PGP SDK; and other 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 solely PGP Corporation's 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 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.

Contact: John Tran Neale-May & Partners +1-650-328-5555 ext. 277 jtran@nealemay.com

PGP Corporation

CONTACT: John Tran of Neale-May & Partners, +1-650-328-5555 ext. 277, orjtran@nealemay.com

Web site: http://www.pgp.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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