New Secure Delivery Product for Email Communication, Updated Management Capabilities among New Releases to Award-Winning Platform

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 14 -- PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced the availability of upgrades to its award-winning PGP(R) Encryption Platform. Six updated PGP Encryption Platform-enabled applications will enhance management, policy, and reporting capabilities as encryption is deployed across an organization to protect data wherever it lives or goes.

Highlighted in this release as part of the PGP Encryption Platform's new Secure Delivery functionality is PDF Messenger, which ensures secure email communication regardless of the recipient's infrastructure. Proven by enterprises worldwide in pre-release testing, Secure Delivery functionality protects communications without requiring additional installed software. Recipients simply continue to use the software they already have installed-a mail client, a Web browser, or a standard PDF reader-to securely receive, read, and reply to email messages. Corporate policies are automatically and uniformly applied to outgoing messages to help ensure compliance.

"I'm impressed with the latest release of the PGP Encryption Platform, especially PGP(R) Whole Disk Encryption. The upgrade was seamless, and the software provides great central reporting-important to our enterprise data protection strategy," says Alan Mitchell, IBM senior technical staff member, chief information officer Security & Privacy, with IBM Corporation. "The additional management controls, such as the ability to lock down certain features, allow us to phase our deployment in managed stages so users can get acquainted with their new capabilities and the potential for help desk calls is reduced."

  Additionally, this PGP Encryption Platform update:
  --  Enables organizations to accelerate deployment of endpoint encryption
      with PGP Whole Disk Encryption, PGP(R) NetShare, and PGP(R) Desktop
      Email
  --  Increases the number of strong authentication options available for
      PGP customers from vendors such as Aladdin, Gemalto, and RSA Security
  --  Facilitates closer monitoring of deployments through new logging and
      reporting capabilities available with PGP Universal(TM) Server
  --  Allows administrators to enforce location-based data protection via
      PGP NetShare, extending an organization's encryption policy beyond
      endpoints to network file shares
  --  Adds support via PGP(R) Command Line for encrypting and digitally
      signing OpenPGP- and S/MIME-formatted email messages for additional
      flexibility in processing business transactions


"The new release of the PGP Encryption Platform provides new ways to secure email communications to more than 10,000 ACS partners and customers without requiring additional software-and recipients can even read messages when offline," says Chris Leach, chief information security officer (CISO) at ACS, a Fortune(R) 500 business process and IT outsourcing provider. "The new Secure Delivery functionality secures email all the way to the recipient, protecting critical data and improving end-user and IT operational efficiency."

"Enterprises are looking for encryption solutions to protect data throughout the enterprise," said Marc Suttle, deployment engineer at ANI Direct, a leading security solutions provider. "Our customers are excited about the new management, policy, and reporting capabilities in this PGP Encryption Platform release. We've performed an exhaustive evaluation of the new release and know it's ready to cost-effectively secure enterprise data."

This release comes at a time when organizations are looking to reduce the risk of a potential data breach as well as the associated costs-up to $197/record compromised according to the latest research from the Ponemon Institute.

"This new release of six PGP Encryption Platform-enabled applications continues our commitment to making encryption technology more manageable, deployable, and useable while continuing to lower the total cost to the enterprise," said Phil Dunkelberger, president and CEO of PGP Corporation. "As the rising cost of data breaches illustrates, enterprises now need to defend their data faster and more broadly, reduce ongoing management costs, and adapt to evolving reporting needs. This new release has already been evaluated and proven via in-depth testing by leading enterprises and PGP channel partners, so we're pleased to make it available to organizations worldwide as the foundation of an enterprise data protection strategy."

Pricing and Availability

PGP product licenses are based on the encryption applications customers select and the management tools they use. Customer options range from a single seat of a single encryption application to multiple seats of a single application with central management server or to a mix-and-match combination of encryption applications all managed by the same server. English versions of all products are available immediately worldwide from PGP resellers and the PGP website. German and Japanese localized versions will be available at the beginning of February 2008.

About the PGP Encryption Platform

The PGP Encryption Platform provides a strategic enterprise encryption framework for consistent key management, user management, policy, and provisioning automated across multiple, integrated encryption applications. All PGP Encryption Platform-enabled applications-from PGP NetShare, to PGP Whole Disk Encryption, to PGP Desktop-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.

Recently, the PGP Encryption Platform was recognized by The Wall Street Journal as its 2007 Technology Innovation Award winner in Network Security. TechWorld named the PGP Encryption Platform its 2007 Encryption Product of the Year, and SC Magazine named the PGP Encryption Platform one of its 2007 Most Innovative Encryption Products and chose PGP Whole Disk Encryption and PGP Desktop Email as a "Best Buy."

PGP Corporation remains the only commercial security vendor to publish product source code for peer review.

About PGP Corporation

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

PGP(R) solutions are used by more than 80,000 enterprises, businesses, and governments worldwide, including 95 percent of the Fortune(R) 100, 75 percent of the Fortune(R) 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.