Tumbleweed Communications進軍馬來西亞

TUMBLEWEED FOCUSES ON RAPID EXPANSION STRATEGY THROUGH ITS PARTNER NETWORK IN MALAYSIA

Malaysia – February 27, 2008 – Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), an industry leader in managed file transfer and content security, today announced that it is expanding its presence and expertise in the APAC region through Tumbleweed’s Alliance Program (TAP), which sees the company adding an extensive arm of qualified security people selling its products in Malaysia through Distributors ACW Distribution and Avnet Inc.

“With messaging and information security threats constantly on the rise and evolving at a rapid pace, organizations are increasingly investing in the execution and upgrade of their security systems. To cater to this growing demand, Tumbleweed is focused on expanding our partner network across the APAC region,” said Stree Naidu, Regional Vice President, APAC, Tumbleweed. “We are pleased with our growing partner network in Malaysia and are confident that our combined efforts will allow us to sustain our position as the leading providers of holistic secure messaging solutions.”

Mr J.Mohan Krishnan Naidu, Assistant General Manager, Avnet Azure Malaysia, emphasizes that “Nowadays it is critical for organizations to diligently safeguard all inbound and outbound messages that remain core to the business operations. Tumbleweed being the leading messaging security player in the industry becomes one of the critical pieces in Avnet’s solution offering. It allows us to help customers put in place an enterprise level, world-class messaging security infrastructure.”

“As a Tumbleweed partner, we can now offer our customers best-of-breed and highly differentiated solutions for secure file transfer and secure messaging. This complements our end-to-end security services and enables us to build customized solutions around Tumbleweed products,” added Mr. Chan Kok Lim, Group Managing Director, ACW Distribution.

Further emphasizing its successful growth as a leading player in the industry, Tumbleweed has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the newly released Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Email Encryption, 2007” (Eric Ouellet and Arabella Hallawell, 8 November 2007).

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Email Encryption looks at e-mail encryption products securing e-mail content data and attachments. According to the analyst group, “leaders” are vendors who are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction, and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.

“We believe our position in the leaders quadrant of is recognition of our content security expertise, with encryption serving as its foundation across multiple products, including the emerging managed file transfer space,” said Taher Elgamal, CTO of Tumbleweed Communications and known in information security circles as a founding father of Internet security and the inventor of widely used SSL encryption. “Our product roadmap further extends our commitment to developing strong encryption technology and will enable us to deploy it in new areas to keep customer data secure while driving encryption innovation forward.”

The Gartner report stated, "One growth trend in the e-mail encryption market has been through data loss prevention (DLP) projects. Companies that invested in DLP initially monitored traffic for policy violations or to understand how their businesses used sensitive data. However, as soon as companies turn to an enforcement mode, e-mail encryption becomes an important mechanism for allowing the transit of sensitive data."