Engate Wins Product of the Year Award

Engate MailSentinel™ Honored for Outstanding Innovation in Delivering Preemptive Connection Layer Protection Against Malicious and Unwanted Email

San Jose, CA – May 14, 2007 — Engate Technology Corporation, a leading supplier of next generation network profiling connection management security solutions, today announced that the editors of Technology Marketing Corporation’s Communications Solutions™ have named Engate MailSentinel™ threat preemption solution as a recipient of the 2006 Product of the Year Award. The award was given in recognition of Engate’s innovation in helping service providers, large enterprises and small to medium sized businesses preemptively stop malicious threats such as image spam, phish, and botnet attacks at the connection level -- prior to transmission. Engate’s preemptive email boundary security technology is also licensed to anti-spam software, security appliance, router, firewall, and unified threat management vendors, empowering them with the unique capability to preemptively detect and permanently stop malicious threats at the protocol layer before dangerous email born viruses, spyware and malware have a chance to compromise their customers‘ networks.

"Communications Solutions is proud to honor Engate with a 2006 Product of the Year Award. Engate has demonstrated a commitment to quality and innovation in helping its customers and partners stop threats outside the network with next generation connection layer security," stated Patrick Barnard, TMCnet editor and head of the judging committee. "With a record number of entries, choosing winners was challenging. My congratulations to Engate as this award is a strong endorsement of its innovation in the email security market and their ongoing support in helping customers stay ahead of the ever-changing threat landscape."

The seventh annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision and leadership that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2006 have been selected as recipients of this year‘s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.

"We‘re pleased to be honored by the editors of Communications Solutions as it recognizes the innovation and value that Engate delivers to OEM vendors, service providers and enterprises," said Rich White, Chief Technology Officer, Engate. "Receiving this award further validates our product leadership in delivering proactive email security solutions that help service providers and organizations to realize a wide range of operational efficiencies from improved network throughput and significant cost reductions from server storage savings."

Using eight patent-pending technologies, the Engate solution delivers industry-leading protection by extending the security boundary outside the private network to stop malicious and unwanted traffic before transmission. Engate is impervious to threats because it uses proprietary techniques and source information that cannot be forged, circumvented or adapted by a spammers‘ present and future ingenuity. Only Engate‘s proprietary technology preemptively detects and permanently stops attacks from sources that have not previously sent spam -- such as zombies which represent more than 80% of spam volume. Engate profiles entire networks and uniquely segregates between legitimate mail servers, and all other network functions, thereby making accurate judgments about the legitimacy of inbound mail. This unique profiling functionality results in the highest level of performance in the market with 99% accuracy and virtually no false positives.

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY Magazine, IMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.003 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. (*alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.)For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

Engate Technology Corporation, winner of the 2006 IT Product of the Year award and the 2006 Communications Solutions Product of the Year award, delivers next generation network profiling connection management security solutions for service providers and enterprises, and can be licensed to anti-spam software, security appliance, router, firewall, and unified threat management vendors. With a leading vision of the email security boundary market direction, the company‘s flagship product, Engate MailSentinel™, delivers preemptive SMTP connection level protection against all threats. Engate‘s proprietary technology operates with or without disk drives, enabling OEMs to integrate threat preemption technology into hardware and software. Engate‘s Network Profiling Connection Management technology can be extensible to other protocols, such as Instant Messaging and Internet Telephony, delivering the best safeguard for today‘s and tomorrow‘s threats. For more information, contact Engate at 775.745.7151, info@engate.com, or visit the company’s website at www.engate.com.

Engate, the Engate logo, Engate MailSentinel, Engate ConnectionManager, Engate GlobalRules and all Engate products are trademarks of Engate Technology Corporation or its subsidiaries and are used under license. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Engate – a leading supplier of SMTP connection management, network profiling, email security boundary, reputation based security, SMTP protocol level security and anti-spam solutions.

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