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Media Release: PGP Japan K.K. Signs Agreement with NEC Corporation for Solution Bundle

PGP Universal Part of NEC's "Secure Email Solution"

Tokyo / 07 May, 2007 – PGP Japan K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection and encryption solutions, today announced the signing of an agreement with NEC Corporation, a premier provider of IT, network, and identity management solutions. The agreement calls for NEC to include PGP Universal™ as part of its "Secure Email Solution," a comprehensive package that enables customers to achieve compliance with the upcoming Japanese version of the Sarbanes-Oxley framework (J-SOX) for corporate governance.

PGP Japan K.K. also announced the certification of NEC Express 5800/120Ri-2 server as a preferred system for use with PGP Universal–based solutions, the result of joint collaboration between the two companies. As part of PGP Corporation’s support of Japanese-language customers, this is the first certification with a Japanese solution provider. The NEC Express server line delivers the highest availability for mission-critical applications and is among the most widely deployed across Japan.

"PGP Corporation is pleased to join forces with NEC Corporation on this email solution to help customers secure and defend their sensitive information," said Phillip Dunkelberger, president and CEO of PGP Corporation. "The entire PGP product portfolio is being well-received in Japan, which is proof of the success of our growth strategy. Working with NEC as one of our first major system integrators in Japan illustrates our continued commitment to and acceptance in the Japanese market."

PGP® technology is designed to meet customer requirements for rapidly deployable encryption solutions with consistent policy enforcement and key management, making it ideal for global organizations of all sizes across all industries.

PGP Universal, a PGP® Encryption Platform–enabled application, automatically secures confidential email with PGP encryption and digital signatures, based on centrally defined policy. The encryption is completely transparent to the user, and email is automatically encrypted to match recipients’ decryption capabilities. The PGP Encryption Platform provides a strategic enterprise encryption framework for shared user management, policy, and provisioning automated across multiple, integrated encryption applications. All PGP Encryption Platform–enabled applications leverage users, keys, and configurations to expedite deployment and policy enforcement, and can be combined to provide multiple layers of security. The PGP Encryption Platform is deployed with the first PGP application installed, enabling organizations to reap best-in-class encryption in phases or as business requirements emerge and evolve.

About PGP Corporation
PGP Corporation, a global security software company, is the leader in email and data encryption. Based on a unified key management and policy infrastructure, the PGP® Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of integrated applications for enterprise data security. PGP platform-enabled applications allow organizations to meet current needs and expand as security requirements evolve for email, laptops, desktops, instant messaging, PDAs, network storage, FTP and bulk data transfers, and backups.

PGP® solutions are used by more than 80,000 enterprises, businesses, and governments worldwide, including 95 percent of the Fortune® 100, 75 percent of the Fortune® 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 or +1 650 319 9000.

Media & analyst contact for PGP Corporation:
Koichi Nishida
Powered Communications Inc.
+81 3 5211 7899
pgp@powered-communications.com

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.

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Media Contact – U.S.:
Tom Rice
Merritt Group
+1 703 856 2218
rice@merrittgrp.com

Media Contact Germany:
Ingrid Daschner
Johnson King
+49 (0) 89 8940 8511
ingridd@johnsonking.de

Media Contact – Japan:
Kyosuke Wakairo
Powered Communications Inc.
+81 3 5211 7899
pgp@powered-
communications.com

Media Contact – U.K.:
Jacqui Depares
Johnson King
+44 (0)20 7401 7968
jacquid@johnsonking.co.uk

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