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CipherMax Completes CM140T Testing Under the IBM System Storage Proven™ Program

SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 3, 2008 – CipherMax, Inc. today announced that its CM140T tape storage encryption product has successfully completed interoperability testing with IBM’s System Storage TS3200 Tape Library product equipped with both LTO-3 and LTO-4 tape drives and has been confirmed as IBM System Storage Proven. The IBM System Storage Proven program builds on IBM’s already extensive interoperability efforts to develop and deliver products and solutions that work together with third party products.

"Proven interoperability with IBM System Storage tape library products is a critical requirement for our mutual customers," said Charles Portnoy, Sr. Director of Business Development for CipherMax. “The successful completion of testing in the System Storage Proven program shows our commitment to delivering innovative storage security solutions that can support a high level of interoperability.”

The CipherMax CM140T offers highly scalable, cost-effective encryption for tape-based storage. Its innovative, fabric-based architecture supports up to 16 Fibre Channel connections and supports installation options as a transparent appliance or a SAN switch with integrated security services. The CM140T provides a comprehensive tape security feature set, including support for data compression, data integrity checking, and secure key management.

The tested solution offers a seamless migration path for companies planning on combining encrypting LTO-4 tape drives with their legacy non-encrypting drives. Deploying the CipherMax CM140T enables encryption for tape backups using existing drives and for LTO-4 drives using LTO-3 media. CipherMax’s KeyCruiser also provides a centralized key lifecycle management system for both drive-based as well as CM140T based encryption services. Organizations no longer have to worry about introducing complexities in their backup environment such as securing only a limited portion of their backups, segregating LTO-4 media from legacy LTO media, or administering multiple key management systems.

The IBM System Storage Proven program supports the ability of independent hardware and software vendors to build high-quality solutions with the latest technology on leading storage platforms as well as reduce solution design time when multiple, tested building blocks have already been pre-tested.

About CipherMax, Inc.

CipherMax, Inc. is the technology leader of enterprise-class storage security solutions. The company has developed the only Storage Security solution that offers the flexibility of deploying encryption in transparent controller mode, discovery mode or FC switching mode. The CM product family can scale from 16 to hundreds of encrypting ports, which are centrally managed through a single graphical interface. The unique CM solution also provides the convenience of remote key management and cost-effectively scales to meet the requirements of medium to large, distributed storage networks. Founded in 2000, CipherMax is headquartered in San Jose, California. CipherMax business and technical teams are from Cisco, EMC, HP, McData, NetApp and Symantec. For more information, visit www.ciphermaxinc.com

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