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Media Release: PGP Corporation Garners Top Rating in
SC Magazine Product Review

PGP Whole Disk Encryption Wins "Best Enterprise Solution" and Named "Best Buy" for Full Disk Encryption Group Test

Palo Alto, CA/04 January, 2007 – PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data security and encryption solutions, today announced that PGP® Whole Disk Encryption was named "Best Enterprise Solution" in a group test of seven products in the January 2007 issue of SC Magazine. The application was also named the "Best Buy."

SC Magazine's product review judges commented, "PGP Whole Disk Encryption provides the easiest to install hard drive encryption package we tested." The review concludes, "PGP Whole Disk Encryption was the best product for an enterprise environment. We rate it our Best Buy for its strong enterprise capability, ease of use, value and superior performance."

"We appreciate SC Magazine's product review team taking an holistic approach in this full disk encryption review, recognizing the tremendous savings of time and money that enterprises can reap when implementing PGP Whole Disk Encryption," said Phillip Dunkelberger, president and CEO of PGP Corporation. "Our solution was architected for the enterprise and built on the PGP® Encryption Platform architecture, which delivers key management, central policy enforcement, and recovery services. Recognition from a trusted industry leader like SC Magazine validates our design decision."

In use at 95 of the 2006 Fortune® 100 companies and 87 percent of Germany's DAX index, the PGP Encryption Platform and set of integrated applications secures email, laptops, desktops, instant messaging, PDAs, network storage, FTP and bulk data transfers, and backups, enabling organizations to reap best-in-class encryption in phases or as business requirements evolve. Increasing threats to confidential information, along with global regulations and security best practices, contribute to continued acceptance of PGP® technology.

About PGP Whole Disk Encryption
PGP Whole Disk Encryption protects intellectual property, customer data, and brand equity with transparent, full disk encryption that locks down a drive without changing user behavior or workflow. The application secures data from multiple threats with a single, centrally managed client, making theft or loss of a system or removable media far less damaging to a user or business. It also provides safe, single sign-on to Microsoft Windows through password synchronization, and is available for Mac OS X non-boot drives, enabling removable media to be encrypted and shared between users on different operating systems.

About SC Magazine
SC Magazine provides IT security professionals with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business. By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies. The brand's portfolio includes the SC Magazine Awards, SC Directory, SC Magazine Newswire and SC Magazine IT Security Executives Forums.

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 30,000 enterprises, businesses, and governments worldwide, including 95 percent of the Fortune® 100, 75 percent of the Fortune® Global 100, and 87 percent of Germany’s DAX 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. PGP Corporation has technology partnerships with industry leaders such as Symantec Corp., Research In Motion, IronPort Systems (which signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cisco Systems), PortAuthority Technologies, and Vontu, Inc. 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@nealemay.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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