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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 that Tumbleweed's MailGate(R) Email Firewall was named the Best Email Content Filtering Solution by SC Magazine -- the largest information security magazine today. The award was presented at the SC Magazine U.S. Awards ceremony, which took place at the RSA Conference on Tuesday, February 14th, at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. 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. Recognizing achievement and technical excellence across 32 different product and service categories, the SC Awards is a global program with participation from developers and users around the world. "Tumbleweed's management and employees are tremendously honored to have earned SC Magazine's Award for Best Email Content Filtering Solution," said John Thielens, CTO for Tumbleweed Communications. "We strive to provide our customers with the best email security tools possible to meet the challenges of data privacy protection, regulatory compliance, and protection of intellectual property, and we are very excited to be recognized for our continuing efforts." The SC Global Awards program spans the U.S., Asia, and the U.K. The SC Awards are composed of both the Reader Trust Technology Awards -- voted on by SC readers in each region and the SC Awards Council, a group of carefully selected senior CSOs -- and the Professional Awards that are judged by a panel of the industry's top talents. 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. SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT Tumbleweed cautions that forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on current plans and expectations, and that a number of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from the guidance given at this time. These factors are described in the Safe Harbor statement below. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to the performance and functionality of Tumbleweed's products. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and similar expressions. For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed's Form 10-K filed March 16, 2005 and Form 10-Q filed November 2, 2005. Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release. Although this release may remain available on Tumbleweed's website or elsewhere, its continued availability does not indicate that Tumbleweed is reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein. About SC Magazine Awards 2006 Recognizing technical excellence and professional achievement across a variety of different categories, the SC Awards is a truly unique program developed to bring attention to the industry's top products and highlight the professionals that have both created them and use them within their companies. These industry achievements are acknowledged during the U.S. Awards ceremony taking place at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA on February 14, 2006. 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, the Arrows logo, 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.