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Tumbleweed(R) Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), a leading provider of email security, managed file transfer, and identity validation appliance and software products, announced today that the Tumbleweed MailGate(R) Appliance 5550 received a "Recommended" rating from the editors of SC Magazine based on the results of a recent anti-spam appliance group test. "We are honored that the SC Magazine editors have chosen to award the Tumbleweed MailGate Appliance(TM) with the only 'Recommended' product rating among all of the vendors involved in the recent group test," said John Thielens, CTO of Tumbleweed Communications. "Spam is a costly problem for the enterprise, and Tumbleweed is committed to providing effective and easy-to-use products to eliminate spam and other email threats." The SC Magazine group test reviewed the performance of anti-spam appliances from nine different vendors including the Tumbleweed MailGate Appliance 5550. The goal of the SC Magazine anti-spam test was to look at each appliance and its ability to filter email, both in-bound and out-bound, in addition to the techniques used by each vendor, as well as the overall functionality of each appliance, all of which was based on each manufacturer's recommended settings. In addition to Tumbleweed, other vendors included in the group test were IronPort Systems, CipherTrust, Barracuda Networks, CyberGuard, PineApp, Vircom, SendMail and SurfControl. The complete article and vendor-by-vendor breakdown of the review is available in the January 2006 issue of SC Magazine. About the Tumbleweed MailGate Product Suite The Tumbleweed MailGate Suite is a family of products for protecting, filtering and monitoring corporate email. These best-in-breed products enable businesses to manage inbound and outbound traffic, block threats, encrypt messages and optimize network performance. MailGate products include MailGate Email Firewall(TM), MailGate Appliance(TM), MailGate Edge(TM), and MailGate Secure Messenger(TM), each optimized for specific environments and security challenges. -- MailGate Email Firewall: A comprehensive email security offering, with functionality ranging from inbound threat prevention to outbound content filtering, monitoring and encryption. -- MailGate Appliance: A powerful and easy-to-deploy hardened Linux appliance, providing integrated network edge defense, antispam, antivirus, content filtering, policy management, and outbound encryption. -- MailGate Edge: A secure email relay appliance that delivers state-of-the-art network-based email defense against Directory Harvest (DHA) and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. -- MailGate Secure Messenger: A policy-based, secure message delivery solution that inspects incoming and outgoing mail and dynamically applies user-defined encryption and routing preferences. About Tumbleweed Communications Corp. Tumbleweed provides security solutions for email protection, file transfers, and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct business over the Internet. Tumbleweed offers these solutions in three comprehensive product suites: MailGate, SecureTransport(TM), and Validation Authority(TM). MailGate provides protection against spam, viruses, and attacks, and enables policy-based message filtering, encryption, and routing. SecureTransport enables business to safely exchange large files and transactions without proprietary software. Validation Authority is the world-leading solution for determining the validity of digital certificates. Tumbleweed's enterprise and government customers include ABN Amro, Bank of America Securities, Catholic Healthcare West, JP Morgan Chase & Co., The Regence Group (Blue Cross/Blue Shield), St. Luke's Episcopal Healthcare System, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Defense, and all four branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Tumbleweed was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. For additional information about Tumbleweed go to www.tumbleweed.com or call 650-216-2000. Tumbleweed, MailGate, MailGate Email Firewall, MailGate Appliance, MailGate Edge, MailGate Secure Messenger, SecureTransport and Validation Authority are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Tumbleweed Communications Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.