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Tumbleweed Communication's Ken Beer to Address the Air Force Information Technology Conference 2003
Tumbleweed's Director of Product Management to Advise the Air Force on Securing Email Communications
Redwood City, CA - August 21, 2003 - Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), a leading provider of mission-critical Internet communications software for enterprises, financial services organizations and government, announced today that Ken Beer, Director of Product Management, will be a featured speaker at the Air Force Information Technology Conference 2003. The event is scheduled to take place August 24-28, 2003 in Montgomery, Ala. at the Montgomery Civic Center.
Beer's presentation, entitled "Server-based Encryption Facilitates Confidential Document Exchange," will detail solutions that The Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) within the FDA implemented to enable secure email communications between itself and the various companies it regulated in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The CDER was looking for a more cost-sensitive, practical approach that reflected the growing use of the Internet for communications, but incorporated the security they needed for their own networks and for the sensitive information they exchanged with their regulated companies. Beer will discuss how they solved their problem with email firewall and secure messaging products to reduce their costs for the center and for pharmaceutical companies by replacing certain paper-based processes and expensive proprietary networks, eliminating end-user training within the Agency and pharmaceutical companies, and protecting internal infrastructure against viruses, spam and denial of service attacks.
About the Conference
The Air Force Information Technology Conference (AFITC) 2003 will be held the week of August 25-28. This conference is geared toward users, buyers, developers, and managers from across the DoD who identify and define requirements for the IT capabilities of tomorrow. Attend this conference to stay current on the latest technologies and to learn of future industry offerings and advances. With an estimated 3,500 military and government employees and 1,500 vendors attending, the conference includes more than 165 in-depth technical seminars and workshops, and more than 170 vendors showcasing their latest technologies.
Location:
Montgomery Civic Center
300 Bibb Street
Montgomery, AL 36104
Telephone: 1-334-241-2100
About Ken Beer
Beer is a secure messaging systems expert and a Director of Product Management at Tumbleweed Communications Corp. He is knowledgeable about the technical aspects of secure systems for both government and civilian implementation. Beer has authored several articles addressing messaging security, intellectual property protection and government-mandated privacy regulations, and he is a frequent presenter at industry conferences addressing these same issues; most recently at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, Calif. Prior to joining Tumbleweed, Beer was the webmaster at Network General Corporation (before the company merged with McAfee to become Network Associates), where he was responsible for the technical and marketing aspects of both the public and intranet web sites. For the past ten years, Beer has been involved in various projects designing web applications for Fortune 1000 companies.
About Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed is a leading provider of mission-critical Internet communications software products for enterprises, financial services organizations and government. By making Internet communications secure, reliable and automated, Tumbleweed's email firewall, secure file transfer, secure email, and identity validation solutions help customers significantly reduce the cost of doing business. Tumbleweed products are used millions of end-users and tens of thousands of corporations. Tumbleweed customers include ABN Amro, Bank of America Securities, Catholic Healthcare West, JP Morgan Chase & Co., The Regence Group (Blue Cross/Blue Shield), Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), St. Luke's Episcopal Healthcare System, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the US Navy and Marine Corps. Tumbleweed Communications 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.
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 benefits and effectiveness of Tumbleweed's products and services in different commercial and government settings. 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 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed June 4, 2003, and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2003.
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