SecurStar wins three categories of the prestigious SC Magazine Awards 2006- US

SecurStar wins tree of the prestigious SC-Magazine Awards in the categories of "best encryption software", "best email encryption" and "best desktop firewall"

With over 1,300 product and service nominations from over 330 competing companies globally, the SC Awards are the world´s leading awards program for the information security industry.

New this year, the SC Magazine Awards have three separate award programs for the US, UK, and Asia Pacific regions. The awards are composed of the Reader Trust Awards-voted on by SC readers in each region, and the excellence and professional awards that are judged by a panel of the industry´s top talents.

Winners were announced at the 2006 SC Awards Gala on February 14th, 2006, which took place at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California.

To view the full list of winners or to learn more about the SC Magazine Awards 2006-US please visit: www.scawards.com

                    Wilfried Hafner (CEO SecurStar)

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PRESS RELEASE:

Awarded in best disk encryption, best email security solution,
and best desktop firewall categories

SecurStar wins international Security Award 2006

Munich, 23. February 2006 - SecurStar GmbH with headquarter in Germany announced that the company´s products have gained SC Magazine Awards 2006. SecurStar´s encryption solutions have convinced readers as well as jury in all categories in which the company competed (best disk encryption, best email security solution, and best desktop firewall). With more than 1,300 nominated products and solutions from 330 global companies, the SC Magazine Awards belong to the internationally most acknowledged and renowned accolate in IT security.

With over 4.5 million installed copies, the DriveCrypt and DriveCrypt Plus Pack encryption solutions developed by SecurStar currently rank among the most commonly used products in the home user market - the corporate market is increasingly being developed. In the course of the SC Magazine Awards, these solutions won over powerful products from leading international companies in the IT security business. Readers chose the products as the winner in the ”Best Encryption Software” category.

In the ”Best Email Security” category, SecurStar´s SecurMailGate product won over competing solutions. SecurMailGate is the first operating system independent encryption gateway in the marketplace. The gateway can also be operated under extremely high Email loads by means of the X5-Proxy. SecurMailGate supports the popular S/MIME and PGP standards and is ideally suited for small networks as well as for business environments.

Likewise, the „Best Desktop Firewall” was awarded to SecurStar. With SecurWall, the company offers highest security with a simple and user-friendly interface. The solution protects against malicious attacks, port scanners, viruses, and other attacks by virtually masking the PC in the Internet.

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