CipherTrust Introduces Category-Based Compliance; Enhanced Compliance Profiler Reduces Administrative Burden Associated with Corporate Information Leak Prevention.

ATLANTA -- CipherTrust, Inc., the global market leader in messaging security, today announced the launch of IronMail(R) 6.5, the latest version of the Company's gateway security appliance. IronMail 6.5 includes two new distinct modules--the Advanced Compliance Module and the Image Analysis Module (both powered by CipherTrust's patented Compliance Profiler(TM) technology)--making CipherTrust(R) the first messaging security vendor to offer category-based compliance optimized to reduce the administrative burden associated with protecting sensitive corporate information.

Industry and government regulations dictate that companies exercise close control over many types of electronic data, and organizations are looking for ways to maintain the integrity of their corporate information. Although content filtering technologies have been available for quite some time, they have been increasingly difficult to manage in terms of time associated with creating dictionaries, assigning thresholds and other activities related to the analysis of described content. CipherTrust's Compliance Profiler analyzes multiple file types, including images, uses artificial intelligence technologies and reduces the administration time associated with simple content filtering technologies by:

--Automatically "learning" which data is sensitive and eliminating the need to build manual dictionaries.

--Applying simple high-level rules defined for classes of content rather than complicated individual threshold rules.

--Enforcing role-based administration with compliance review interface and workflow capabilities.

--Analyzing many document formats, including 85 different image types and more than 200 file types.

--Supporting multiple languages, including French, German, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, for customized dictionaries and content analysis, translated versions of all reports, rule and policy input in any supported language, and more.

"CipherTrust has incorporated content-filtering techniques on outbound traffic since 2001. Since then, CipherTrust Research has focused on developing innovative approaches to make these solutions more robust and easier to use," said Dr. Paul Judge, chief technology officer at CipherTrust. "The Compliance Profiler uses artificial intelligence techniques that automatically define and enforce policies, replacing the legacy content filtering solutions that organizations struggle to use and maintain."

CipherTrust's Compliance Profiler technology powers both the Advanced Compliance Module and the Image Analysis Module. Both modules are integrated with CipherTrust Central(TM), providing a single management framework for administration, reporting and policy configuration.

Advanced Compliance Module

--Adaptive lexical analysis - Adaptively learns the type of content that is considered confidential by training with public and private documents to identify key phrases, accounting for misspellings, intentionally obfuscated text, and similar patterns close to matching confidential text.

--Clustering - Considers individual words within a sensitive document and evaluates a message based on the frequency of the words and how they correlate to other words within a document.

--Fingerprinting - Generates digital fingerprints of documents to prevent any attempts to send a sentence or paragraph from a confidential document outside the network.

Image Analysis Module

CipherTrust Research has found that 10 percent of all messages contain pornographic images or are related to pornographic content, with the majority of those images being .gif and .jpg files. CipherTrust's Image Analysis Module is fully integrated and goes far beyond basic "flesh-finder" technology to identify and block those messages, which can compromise corporate integrity and take up valuable server space. CipherTrust's Imaged Analysis Module provides:

--Support for 85 image types and characteristics - Detects pornographic or sexually offensive images embedded within or attached to an e-mail message.

--Inbound and outbound message filtering - Detects and controls the sending and receiving of pornographic images through e-mail to block pornographic spam and comply with corporate policy.

--Tunable configuration options - Gives administrators the flexibility to implement customized corporate tolerance policies across users, groups or domains.

--Flexible rule sets to enforce actions - Enforces actions based on policy to deal with offensive images, including drop part, subject rewrite, copy as attachment, forward as attachment, drop message and quarantine message.

Availability and Pricing

IronMail 6.5 is available immediately. The Advanced Compliance Module starts at $9,995, and the Image Analysis Module starts at $5,995.

About CipherTrust, Inc.

CipherTrust, Inc., the global market leader in messaging security, provides innovative layered security solutions to stop inbound messaging threats such as spam, viruses, intrusions and phishing, and protect against outbound policy and compliance violations. CipherTrust's integrated best-of-breed capabilities deliver maximum availability and unmatched security, effectiveness and enterprise manageability across multiple communication channels, including e-mail, instant messaging and Web-based mail. Recognized by IDC as the market leader for secure content management appliances, CipherTrust protects the messaging infrastructure of more global enterprises than any other vendor, including more than one-third of the Fortune 500. CipherTrust 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.

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