TOKYO –– February 23, 2005 –– Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) announced today that it has concluded a distribution agreement with CipherTrust, Inc. (Head Office: Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.; President & CEO: Steve Raber), under which TEL will begin selling CipherTrust's IronMail messaging appliances in Japan on February 23.

In recent years email has expanded significantly to become one of the most important tools of communication between companies. To protect their own systems from external threats, many companies are utilizing firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, and other network security measures. In reality, however, companies are doing nothing to safeguard the ports for sending and receiving email. Because of this, they have been forced to introduce security-related servers and applications between their firewalls and email servers, resulting in high costs in terms of both management and operation.

IronMail is an integrated appliance dedicated to email, with all of the functions necessary for email security integrated into a single unit. By closely examining all connections to email servers, it detects and blocks any known threat as well as any potential connection-related dangers. Equipped with CipherTrust's proprietary Mail Firewall technology, IronMail works as a powerful email gateway.
"The Asia Pacific region and Japan in particular represents a huge opportunity to extend CipherTrust's recognized position as the leading enterprise email security product", said CipherTrust President and CEO Steve Raber. "We are pleased to leverage Tokyo Electron's excellent reputation and market share reach to ensure customers in this region can adequately and rapidly protect their critical email infrastructures".

TEL, which has a long track record in the field of network security, is also aiming to achieve sales of 1.5 billion yen in the field of messaging security solutions over the next three years.
For product specifications and other details, please visit our website: http://www.tel.co.jp/cn/.

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About CipherTrust, Inc. http://www.ciphertrust.com
Headquartered in Atlanta, CipherTrust, Inc. is a global email security company, setting new standards in the development of comprehensive security solutions for enterprise email systems.
The company's IronMail appliance is the only product on the market offering an integrated set of best-of-breed security solutions, including spam protection, virus prevention, intrusion detection and flexible policy controls. CipherTrust's IronMail provides a secure email gateway for the enterprise, and earned PC Magazine's Editors' Choice Award for corporate anti-spam tools. For more information about CipherTrust, visit www.ciphertrust.com or call our HK Headquarters at 852.2598.9280.