Media Release: Counterpane Chooses PGP Universal

PGP CORPORATION AND COUNTERPANE INTERNET SECURITY BRING STANDARDIZED,
ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS TO CUSTOMERS WORLDWIDE

Network-based encryption software ensures security of inbound and outbound email communications

Palo Alto, CA/12 October, 2004 – PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise encryption solutions, and Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., the leader in Managed Security Services, today announced that Counterpane has chosen PGP® Universal to extend its high-security communications services. Counterpane will integrate PGP Universal's email security into its existing network to standardize encryption for inbound and outbound electronic messages. Counterpane has deployed PGP Universal to support more than 400 customer networks in more than 35 countries.

Counterpane sales, operations, and engineering employees frequently utilize email to communicate sensitive network security data to both internal contacts and external customers. PGP Universal provides Counterpane with an advanced, end-to-end encryption solution that secures all electronic messages and allows Counterpane to successfully meet the high security standards demanded by its customers. Establishing and maintaining secure email connections requires support of both PGP and the open standard, X.509-based certificates. PGP Universal bridges the X.509 and PGP encryption specifications easily within a single system, which is centralized within Counterpane's infrastructure.

"Securing communications between Counterpane, our customers, and our business partners is critical to ensuring success in the marketplace," said Doug Howard, vice president of Service Delivery. "As a single source for complete network security, Counterpane must deploy proven technologies and solutions that advance security measures for our customers around the globe. Counterpane's selection of PGP Universal meets this requirement by securely encrypting our own communications solutions and by leveraging our clients' existing network infrastructure investments."

PGP Universal has now been integrated as part of Counterpane's messaging gateways. For users and systems not already using PGP keys, Counterpane uses PGP Universal's Smart Trailer feature as a standard capability that allows recipients to receive future messages in encrypted form or to upload any existing X.509 or PGP keys.

"We are particularly pleased to have Counterpane join our growing list of PGP Universal customers," said Andrew Krcik, vice president of Marketing for PGP Corporation. "When security experts such as Counterpane, the industry leader in Managed Security Services, select and deploy PGP Universal, it validates the excellence of our new architecture, its practical application in production environments, and the trust placed in our company and products."

Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. provides global enterprises with the highest level of corporate IT asset protection in the industry. The Counterpane Enterprise Protection SuiteT offers scanning, management, and consulting services based on Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring service. Combined with its respected security analysis and global expertise, Counterpane simplifies security by providing a single source for protection and compliance.

About PGP Universal
PGP Universal provides practical, wide-scale deployment of secure messaging. By moving email encryption responsibility away from users to the network, encryption, decryption, and digital signatures are automatic and user-transparent. Messages are encrypted to individual keypairs and secured even when recipients have no keys. PGP Universal can quickly and cost-effectively secure some, most or all enterprise users-both inside and outside the organization. PGP Universal supports both OpenPGP and X.509 + S/MIME standards and delivers low-cost deployment through its self-deploying, proxy-based architecture. PGP Universal can be integrated with an MTA server to provide a complete enterprise email security solution that includes encryption, digital signatures, anti-virus, anti-spam, content filtering, and unified policy management.

About PGP Corporation
Recognized worldwide as a leader in enterprise encryption technology, PGP Corporation develops, markets, and supports products used by more than 30,000 enterprises, businesses, and governments worldwide, including 90% of the Fortune 100 and 75% of the Forbes International 100. PGP products are also used by thousands of individuals and cryptography experts to secure proprietary and confidential information.

During the past ten years, PGP® technology has earned a global reputation for standards-based, trusted security products. PGP Corporation is the only commercial security vendor to publish source code for peer review. The unique PGP encryption product suite includes PGP Universal-an automatic, self-managing, network-based solution for enterprises-as well as desktop, mobile, and FTP/batch transfer solutions. Contact PGP Corporation at www.pgp.com or +1 650 319 9000.

Media & analyst contact for PGP Corporation:
John Tran
Neale-May & Partners
+1 650 328 5555 ext. 277
jtran at nealemay dot com

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