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CipherTrust Anti-Virus Powered by Authentium Bolsters IronMail's Best-of-Breed Virus ProtectionATLANTA & WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- March 7, 2005 -- New Partnership with Authentium Enhances IronMail Zero Day Virus Protection, Greatly Enhancing Performance and Reducing Sweep Errors CipherTrust, Inc., the leader in messaging security, today announced the availability of CipherTrust Anti-Virus, powered by Authentium, as the latest enhancement to the company's award-winning IronMail appliance. Providing premier signature-based protection against more than 150,000 known virus and worm threats, Authentium strengthens CipherTrust's Zero Day Virus Protection with a faster and more effective signature engine to supplement IronMail's deterministic and heuristic-based protection schemes. "The CipherTrust Anti-Virus, powered by Authentium, has proven very successful for TCU," said Bryan Lucas, server administrator at Texas Christian University. "We rely on a two layer approach using one product at the gateway, and one at the desktop. Adding Authentium to our IronMail appliance was a seamless process and uniquely allows us to run two AV engines on IronMail for redundancy and further protection. We found that no other e-mail security gateway can do that. TCU has been very pleased with Authentium's frequency of definition updates, as well as its increased detection ability." Comprehensive Threat Protection CipherTrust Anti-Virus, powered by Authentium, offers the most advanced solution available to detect and block known viruses. While Zero-Day protection is a critical component of an effective layered virus defense, the need remains for a traditional, robust signature-based anti-virus engine. When deployed correctly, this system provides assurance that known viruses will not trouble a customer's network. Authentium has over 150,000 threat signatures in its database, providing the broadest protection in the space. Enhancing the effectiveness of the solution are IronMail's Threat Response Updates (TRU), which send real-time threat updates to CipherTrust's Anti-Virus powered by Authentium, in addition to other IronMail components. By deeply integrating the anti-virus technology with IronMail, CipherTrust reduces the customer's administrative burden of managing multiple platforms, and allows anti-virus to be another facet of a unified e-mail policy. Authentium has specialized in virus control for enterprises since 1992, and the incorporation of its technology with CipherTrust's award-winning IronMail messaging security appliance provides customers with the most advanced solution available to detect and block known viruses. The combination of these premier technologies already has shown incredible results in the field, specifically with the outbreak of the recent Bagle variant. IronMail's Zero Day Virus Protection, including CipherTrust Anti-Virus powered by Authentium, protected CipherTrust's customers from the attack. "Authentium has a proven track record of securing data over large networks. This partnership with CipherTrust is consistent with Authentium's strategic focus on building great technology that complements the security offerings of industry leaders. The IronMail appliance in combination with the Authentium antivirus technology provides unsurpassed gateway messaging security," said Doug Brunt, Senior Vice President of Business Development at Authentium. "E-mail is the predominant method of virus proliferation today, and regardless of whether enterprises already have an anti-virus solution, industry analysts are encouraging them to build an additional layer of virus protection, deployed at the gateway," said Mike Van Bruinisse, senior vice president of sales and business development, CipherTrust. "The complete protection of our customers from all messaging threats is a priority for both CipherTrust and Authentium. CipherTrust's decision to partner with Authentium as the power behind our branded signature-based virus protection significantly deepens our already extensive and wide-ranging anti-virus offering." CipherTrust Anti-Virus, powered by Authentium is available immediately, and is already in use by existing IronMail users. About Authentium Based in West Palm Beach, Florida, Authentium develops core OS encapsulation, application defense, data interception and data analysis technologies, and is the leading provider of security application toolkits to independent software vendors and appliance manufacturers. One of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the security software industry, Authentium provides services to more than 2,200 enterprise, agency, and education customers worldwide. For more information about Authentium, please visit www.authentium.com. About CipherTrust, Inc. CipherTrust, Inc. is the leader in messaging security. Recognized by IDC as the market leader and PC Magazine as the leading e-mail security appliance, the Company's award-winning IronMail appliance protects the messaging systems of more enterprise e-mail users than any other solution, including more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100. CipherTrust pioneered messaging security by uniquely combining the five critical e-mail security components of spam and fraud prevention, virus and worm protection, policy and content compliance, e-mail privacy, and intrusion prevention into a single easy to deploy and manage platform. The Company is backed by top tier investors including Battery Ventures and Greylock Partners. For more information about CipherTrust, please visit www.ciphertrust.com or call 877.448.8625. CipherTrust and IronMail are registered trademarks of CipherTrust, Inc. TrustedSource is a trademark of CipherTrust. 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