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Media Release: Record 2005 Results PGP Corporation Announces Record 2005 Results, Rapid Growth in Encryption Platform Customers, & Worldwide Expansion Strong Demand for Integrated PGP Universal Encryption Platform Highlights 2005 Results Palo Alto, CA / 07 February, 2006– PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data security and encryption solutions, today announced outstanding 2005 results and its fourth consecutive year of record orders. Additionally, for the third consecutive year, PGP orders grew in excess of 40 percent. Growth was fueled by wide acceptance of the PGP Universal™ Encryption Platform, new PGP® Whole Disk Encryption, and updates to PGP® Command Line for batch/FTP transfers and backups. “Capping a record year, the fourth quarter of 2005 saw record quarterly cash flow from operations--the largest in the company"s history,” said Phillip Dunkelberger, president and CEO of PGP Corporation. “It also marked the 14th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in customer orders. The global mix of orders was particularly strong, highlighted by the opening of new subsidiaries in Germany and Japan. “Additional growth capital raised during 2005 will allow us to accelerate R&D spending and expand the breadth of the PGP Universal Encryption Platform. These investments, plus accelerating customer adoption of our product platform, make us very optimistic about 2006 and beyond.” During 2005, the company increased its worldwide Engineering staff by more than one-third. It also expanded its global presence, opening German and Japanese subsidiaries, PGP Deutschland AG and PGP Japan K.K., launching foreign-language versions of its product and corporate website, and continuing to build infrastructure. “Our enterprise encryption platform gives customers the best of both worlds: award-winning, industry-standard encryption now plus the flexibility to extend security to new users, new devices, and new data types in the future,” said Jon Callas, chief technology officer of PGP Corporation. “We help customers reduce training and operational costs by integrating easily with existing infrastructure and applications. We maximize IT and support resources with interoperability and central management that share encryption keys and a common encryption architecture. These features allow customers to easily add new solutions as needs or regulatory requirements expand.”PGP Universal Encryption Platform. During 2005, PGP Corporation continued the expansion of its solution set to meet customer requirements for features and functionality. The company extended the PGP Ecosystem around PGP Universal to encompass technology from partners through its new Total Solution Provider (TSP) Program. Among the year"s highlights:
Among the new PGP “out-of-the-box” enterprise solutions introduced in 2005:
PGP Technology Leadership. In 2005, PGP Corporation continued to garner mind share. The company was recognized as the leading vendor in email and data security software by TheInfoPro, an independent research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for the information technology industry. “In our last two Information Security Studies, conducted mid- and end-year 2005, security managers in the consumer goods/retail, financial services, telecommunications, health care, and technology industries, among others, consistently identified PGP Corporation as the lead vendor in the encryption software business,” said Henry D. Nissenbaum, managing director for information security research at TheInfoPro. “Security managers felt PGP encryption was easy to use, easy to deploy, and provided comprehensive protection for their confidential and mission-critical data.” PGP Corporation was recognized in the Best Security Company category by SC Magazine Global Awards for the second consecutive year--the only company honored in both 2005 and 2006. PGP products also continued to win major industry recognition. Both PGP Universal and PGP Desktop received several key awards in 2005:
About PGP Corporation During the past 10 years, PGP® 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 www.pgp.com or +1 650 319 9000. Media & analyst contact for PGP Corporation: Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking 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. |
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