CUPERTINO, Calif., May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- PostX, the leader in the delivery of encrypted email communications for businesses and consumers, today announced its "Promising" rating in Gartner's MarketScope for E-mail encryption, 2006(i).

According to the report, there has been a trend for the consolidation of encrypted e-mail services, and as such, the MarketScope focuses on a specific email encryption market -- the gateway encryption market, in which no desktop software is required by sender or receiver. This is where Gartner continues to see the majority of user demand for specific solutions.

Gateway email encryption solutions provided by vendors in this market can be used for a variety of business requirements, states Gartner. For example, they can be used for sending emails externally to a small or large number of individual users or for internal deployments to obviate the needs for desktop software. The targeted external users may be a select set of business advisers (such as lawyers and bankers), to thousands of small-business partners, or millions of consumers.

"Since our founding, PostX has consistently delivered products and services that meet the widest array of security and business requirements at the very best possible costs. Whether compliance related or e-business driven, including secure document delivery applications, we have the ideal solution," said Cayce Ullman, CEO, PostX. "Today, millions of recipients have received an email message protected by PostX and this evaluation by one of the leading industry analyst firms for our pure-play email encryption products, once again confirms our technology and market position in the space."

The vendors included in the report were required to have the ability to support gateway-based encryption without the recipients needing to deploy an additional client. Additionally, vendors were only included if they had a minimum of 50 full-production enterprise customers, defined as more than 2,500 users and at least $1 million in revenue from gateway product in 2005.

The report also states, 2005 certainly generated a lot of activity for vendors, and security and email directors. Indeed, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and general compliance or risk concerns drove significant interest in email encryption in 2005.

The PostX suite of email security products includes right-sized solutions for any enterprise, powered by the PostX Messaging Application Platform (MAP) which provides customers the easiest to use and most cost-effective solution on the market, coupled with powerful encryption and security features. The PostX MAP is the only email encryption product to support all principal forms of secure delivery, including PostX Envelopes (Secure Push), PostX WebSafe (Secure Web-based messaging or Pull), OpenPGP, S/MIME and Transport Layer Security (TLS). PostX solutions include desktop-to-desktop, gateway-to-desktop, and gateway-to-gateway encryption options.

About PostX Corporation

PostX ensures secure encrypted delivery of information vital to business and customer relationships. The company's proprietary technology provides easy-to-use, enterprise-class encrypted communication for regulatory compliance and cost reduction initiatives. Organizations immediately benefit from an increase in effective communications with their employees, partners and customers.

The company is the exclusive secure email provider endorsed by the American Hospital Association (AHA), to provide a standardized secure messaging solution to comply with stringent HIPAA regulations, recommended to the entire AHA network of 37,000 individual health care providers and more than 5,000 hospitals. Additionally, PostX is a founding member and represented on the Board of Governance of the Trusted Electronic Communications Forum (TECF; http://www.tecf.org/), a cross-industry association founded to eradicate spoofing and phishing.

The company is headquartered in the U.S. in Cupertino, CA. PostX partners and customers include ABN AMRO, Aetna, Allstate, BorderWare, Charles Schwab, Children's Hospital, Citi, DirectTV Enterprises, HSBC, IBM, IronPort, Marsh Inc., Mayo Clinic, McAfee, Mercy Health Partners, MessageLabs, Microsoft, RSA Security, Sendmail, Sophos and the United States Postal Service (USPS). For more information visit http://www.postx.com/.

MarketScope Disclaimer

The MarketScope is copyrighted April 21, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors' measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

(i) Garnter Research "MarketScope: E-mail Encryption, 2006," by Arabella Hallawell and Eric Ouellet

CONTACT: Michael Weir of PostX, +1-408-861-3598, or mweir@postx.com; or
Michelle Van Jura of Fusion PR, +1-310-481-1431, Ext. 15, or
michelle.vanjura@fusionpr.com, for PostX

Web site: http://www.postx.com/