Press Release: PGP Japan K.K. Joins NSD Co. Led Secure Email Project

PGP Universal Gateway Email provides secure email communication

Tokyo and Menlo Park, CA/10 July, 2008 - PGP Japan K.K., a global leader in enterprise data protection (HQ: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Managing Director: Masayuki Kitahara; hereafter referred to as PGP Japan), today announced that it has joined the email security alliance project, 'Total Mail Risk Management & Solution' led by NSD Co., Ltd. (HQ: Tokyo; President: Ichiro Okinaka; hereafter referred to as NSD) along with 13 other companies . This project commenced 15 July, 2008.

The purpose of Total Mail Risk Management & Solution is to raise awareness of email security and to expand sales of email security solutions. Participating companies include 7 leading email solutions providers and 6 system integrators in mail security. The project has selected PGP Universal™ Gateway Email as the email encryption product to be showcased to enterprise customers.

Total Mail Risk Management & Solution provides the following email security solution:

• Email server / archiving
• Anti virus / spam
• Email filtering
• Email Encryption
• Email mass distribution
• Large file sending
• Information leak assurance

As the volume of emails used in enterprises increases at an explosive pace, the opportunity for information leakage problems becomes more prevalent. Enterprises are not only required to proactively establish policies around email archiving, filtering, and spamming, as well as provide email delivery services that conform to various regulations such as J-SOX, Personal Information Protection Law, Civil Procedure Code, Specified Email Act, Information Security Management Policy. The Total Mail Risk Management & Solution project carefully reviews which vendors are available today to address these policies and help companies implement enterprise data protection best practices. Based on the current products available, the project has published a solution proposal, "Total Mail Management & Solution", at the dedicated Web site http://mailsecurity.jp to provide a one-stop solution to address various emailing issues that enterprises face.

¹ Participated 13 companies (Alphabetical order):
Clearswift K.K., FIS Solutions. Inc., Forval Creative, Inc., lnet Corporation, Marubeni Infotec Corporation, McAfee Co., Ltd., Messaging Technology Co.,Ltd., Mirapoint Japan K.K., Nissho Electronics Corporation, NSD Co., Ltd., Osaka Gas Information System Research Institute Co., Ltd., PGP Japan K.K., Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

"We are excited to be a part of this first-in-the-industry project led by NSD," offered Masayuki Kitahara, Managing Director of PGP Japan K.K. "We think this project has significant meaning not only because it's first-in-the-industry, but also because of the increasing importance of email security in enterprises."

PGP Universal Gateway Email
PGP Universal Gateway Email provides centrally managed, standards-based email encryption to secure email communications with customers and partners. By encrypting data at the gateway, PGP Universal Gateway Email ensures data is protected from unauthorized access in transit over the public Internet and at rest on a recipient's mail server. With PGP Universal Gateway Email, organizations can minimize the risk of a data breach and comply with partner and regulatory mandates for information security and privacy. /pgp/products/universal_gateway_email/index.html

About PGP Japan K.K.
PGP Japan K.K. was established in 2005 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of PGP Corporation, and sells PGP® encryption products and supports technology partners in the Japanese domestic market. PGP Japan K.K. has a central and important role to cover the Asia-Pacific region. Contact PGP Japan K.K. at http://www.pgp.com/jp/

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® 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, smartphones, network storage, file transfers, automated processes, 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.

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Christina Grenier
PGP Corporation
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cgrenier@pgp.com

U.K.:
Jacqui Depares / Richard Scarlett
Johnson King
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Germany:
Ingrid Daschner
Johnson King
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