ORANGE, California, October 27, 2004 –City of Topeka, Kansas Becomes First Joint Proofpoint/8e6 Customer, Deploys Proofpoint P-Series Appliance to Eliminate Spam and Viruses Cupertino, CA and Orange, CA, August 23, 2004 –PRNewswire/ -- Proofpoint, Inc., the leader in large-enterprise messaging security solutions, and 8e6 Technologies, one of the top providers of appliance-based Internet Filtering and Reporting solutions, today announced a new reseller partnership whereby 8e6 will sell Proofpoint's line of messaging security solutions including the Proofpoint Protection Server(TM) and Proofpoint P-Series(TM) Appliance. The companies also announced the City of Topeka, Kansas as the first joint Proofpoint/8e6 customer.

Under the terms of the agreement, 8e6 will sell Proofpoint's solutions in the North American market and engage in joint marketing programs. Proofpoint has already trained and certified 8e6's sales and technical support staff who will provide professional services, including installation and configuration services as well as first-line customer support to 8e6 customers.

"We've been extremely impressed with the quality of Proofpoint's products, the skills of the Proofpoint team and the level of interest in Proofpoint from our customers," said Paul Myer, president and COO of 8e6 Technologies. "Though our relationship is new, we've quickly built a strong pipeline of opportunities, deployed Proofpoint at City of Topeka and look forward to many more successful joint engagements."

"Building strong reseller partnerships is critical to the ongoing success of Proofpoint's business," said Gary Steele, CEO of Proofpoint. "We've chosen to work with 8e6 because of their broad reach, knowledge of the enterprise messaging security market and their demonstrated ability to integrate Proofpoint's products into a complete security solution for customers."

The City of Topeka, Kansas, is the first 8e6 customer to adopt Proofpoint's messaging security platform, selecting the Proofpoint P-Series Appliance to eradicate spam and viruses from their email systems. 8e6 and Proofpoint helped the City of Topeka understand the extent of its spam problem by conducting a Proofpoint Spam Audit.

"The P-Series Appliance is truly plug and play. We had it working out of the box in just five minutes," said Bill Stephens, electronic communications manager for the City of Topeka. "We were amazed by the in-depth metrics that the appliance provided and by the effectiveness of Proofpoint's anti-spam technology."

The results were so dramatic that the City of Topeka made the decision to purchase and fully deploy the Proofpoint P-Series Appliance two weeks ahead of schedule. More than 1,300 municipal employees are now completely protected from spam and viruses. City of Topeka's IT department is so confident in Proofpoint's anti-spam accuracy, that it is enforcing an extremely aggressive anti-spam policy -- automatically deleting any email with a Proofpoint spam score greater than 40, before it can reach Topeka's Exchange email servers.

The outstanding effectiveness of the Proofpoint P-Series Appliance is due to Proofpoint MLX(TM) Machine Learning technology, which delivers adaptive protection to automatically defend organizations against emerging types of message-borne threats. It examines more than 57,000 attributes to identify and eliminate spam.

"I wear many different hats in my position, and knowing that my spam problem is under control gives me the freedom to concentrate on other important projects, such as maintaining the municipal Web sites and providing IT training to city employees," said Stephens. "The Proofpoint P-Series Appliance has definitely been a great help in providing better service to our community."

About 8e6 Technologies
8e6 Technologies is a privately held provider of appliance-based URL filtering, web-use reporting, IM and P2P control and bandwidth management solutions. Since 1995, 8e6 has provided scalable network solutions to enterprise, SMB and education customers worldwide. Located in Orange, California, 8e6 assists its customers in reducing liability, improving employee productivity and preserving network resources. For more information regarding 8e6 Technologies, visit our website at www.8e6.com.

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About Proofpoint, Inc.
Proofpoint provides messaging security solutions for large enterprises to stop spam, protect against email viruses and ensure compliance with corporate policies and regulations through their messaging infrastructure. The company's flagship product, Proofpoint Protection Server(TM) is a software breakthrough that employs Proofpoint MLX(TM) technology, an advanced Machine Learning system developed at Proofpoint's Anti-spam Laboratory to govern the flow of digital correspondence. Proofpoint was founded by technology visionary and former CTO of Netscape Communications, Eric Hahn. The Cupertino, California-based company is funded by Benchmark Capital, Inventures Group, Mohr, Davidow Ventures, RRE Ventures and Stanford University. For more information, please visit www.proofpoint.com.

NOTE: Proofpoint, Proofpoint MLX, Proofpoint P-Series and Proofpoint Protection Server are trademarks of Proofpoint Inc. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.