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PRESS RELEASE : April 7, 2005

Phelps County Regional Medical Center Selects Voltage Security and CipherTrust to Provide Privacy Protection
for E-mail Communication

Voltage Security Products Featuring Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) and CipherTrust’s Policy Management Provide Compliance for Regional Healthcare Center

Baltimore, MD—HIPAA Summit—April 7, 2005---Phelps County Regional Medical Center (Phelps), serving the medical needs of Rolla and south central Missouri, today announced that it has selected Voltage Security, Inc., a global leader in enterprise privacy management, and CipherTrust, Inc. (www.ciphertrust.com), the leader in messaging security, to ensure compliance for the April 20th HIPAA security rule deadline. The combination of Voltage SecureMail™, Voltage Identity-Based Encryption or IBE Gateway Server™ and CipherTrust IronMail® will provide policy-driven encryption to protect private health and financial information in e-mails flowing in and out of the medical center. Phelps, a 235-bed acute-care hospital, selected the CipherTrust/Voltage solution due to its easy-to-use, flexible administration capabilities. Approximately 800 employees at Phelps are currently using the Voltage/CipherTrust solution.

“Our goal is to meet the standards set-forth in federal patient privacy regulations, such as HIPAA, and safeguard all Protected Health Information (PHI) leaving and coming into the hospital. At the same time, we want to continue to offer our customers and vendor partners the convenience and efficiency of e-mail communication. Voltage IBE, combined with the CipherTrust IronMail appliance, provides us with all of this plus a total e-mail security solution,” said Mary Crouch, CIO/IT security officer, Phelps County Regional Medical Center. “We looked at several solutions and none of them offered the combination of automation, ease-of-use, functionality and reporting that we knew would be best for our users. I learned to use it in a couple of minutes on my home computer, so I knew my end users would not need extra training. Installation of the system at the hospital has been quick and efficient.”

CipherTrust’s IronMail solution is an all-in-one appliance that sits at the enterprise gateway blocking inbound e-mail threats and protecting outbound message content from policy violations. IronMail examines the content and handles it based on administrator-defined policy.  The message is then routed to the Voltage IBE Gateway Server where it is encrypted and delivered to the Internet by IronMail. IBE greatly simplifies the process of protecting private digital communications by using a common identity, such as an e-mail address, as a public key and no certificates need to be managed and no pre-enrollment in the system is required.

“We are finding tremendous interest in policy-based encryption. It is the ideal solution for organizations that want to take compliance decision-making out of the hands of end users, and automatically scan and encrypt all messages containing sensitive, private information. The Voltage IBE Gateway Server combined with the CipherTrust IronMail appliance helps customers comply with key regulations automatically and efficiently,” said Wasim Ahmad, vice president of marketing, Voltage Security, Inc.

“Adding the Voltage IBE Server to IronMail’s Privacy Architecture has enabled CipherTrust customers to conduct secure business communication anytime, from anywhere,” said Mike Rothman, vice president of marketing, CipherTrust. “Enterprises such as Phelps choose this solution to ensure the secure delivery of business-critical messages and to help fill in a piece of the compliance puzzle for regulations such as HIPAA. Not only is it critical to protect e-mail servers from incoming threats such as viruses and worms, it is just as vital to protect legitimate business messages from reaching the wrong hands or possibly violating corporate or regulatory policies.”

About CipherTrust, Inc.

 CipherTrust, Inc. is the leader in messaging security. Recognized by IDC as the market leader, 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 work 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.

About Voltage Security
Voltage Security, Inc. provides the market leading Voltage Enterprise Privacy Management Platform™, a breakthrough foundation for securing all forms of digital business communication flowing into and outside an organization. Based on a revolutionary breakthrough called IBE, or Identity-Based Encryption, the Voltage Enterprise Privacy Management Platform greatly simplifies the use and administration of traditional security systems. Voltage Security markets its own enterprise solutions including the Voltage SecureMail Gateway™, Voltage SecureMail™ and secure mobile messaging solutions for RIMs BlackBerry® and Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs and Smartphones, and partners with other leading companies such as CipherTrust, FrontBridge Technologies (a Microsoft company) and Proofpoint to serve the expanded security needs of the enterprise. Third-party and corporate developers can secure customer applications with the Voltage IBE Toolkit™. Voltage Security customers include leading corporations and governmental agencies from around the globe including XL Global Services, Waterfield Mortgage, QVC Japan and Hitachi.

About Phelps County Regional Medical Center

Phelps County Regional Medical Center is a not-for-profit community hospital located in Rolla, Missouri and serving the medical needs of south central Missouri. Phelps is a 235-bed, acute-care hospital, with more than 1300 employees. The goal at Phelps is to create an environment which fosters service excellence directed toward all customers including employees, patients, families, visitors and physicians. For more information, please see www.pcrmc.com.

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Voltage SecureMail, Voltage SecureFile, Voltage SecurePolicy Suite, Voltage IBE Gateway Server and Voltage IBE Toolkit are all either trademarks or registered trademarks of Voltage Security, Inc. All other product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owner.

CipherTrust and IronMail are registered trademarks of CipherTrust, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.  

 



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