nuBridges Named Finalist for Network Products Guide 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards

March 24, 2011

Tools

Innovative data protection software company is finalist in three categories

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- nuBridges announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry’s leading technology research and advisory guide, has named it and two of its data protection products as finalists in its 6^th Annual 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards. nuBridges is a Hot Companies finalist, nuBridges Protect™ is a finalist in the Solutions for Enterprise (Large) category, and nuBridges Protect™ Token Manager is a finalist in the Compliance category.

nuBridges Protect™ Token Manager brings an innovative variation of data tokenization — Format Preserving Tokenization™ — to award-winning nuBridges Protect™, the industry’s first data security software solution to combine tokenization with strong local encryption, centralized key management and logging in one platform-agnostic package. nuBridges Protect Token Manager reduces security costs, lowers the risk of a data breach, and reduces scope for PCI DSS compliance. It offers a new data protection model for payment card numbers as well as for personally identifiable information (PII) and electronic health records (EHR), enabling organizations to comply with PCI DSS, PA DSS, HITECH Act, HIPAA and government privacy acts.

Together, nuBridges Protect and nuBridges Protect Token Manager provide organizations with multiple ways to protect sensitive data and support field, file and database level encryption using multiple encryption algorithms along with tokenization. Centralized key management keeps keys safe and ensures availability for authorized users only. Audit logging systems record all activity related to sensitive data, helping companies prepare for audits and stay in compliance with industry privacy regulations and standards. Proven in production use for business-critical operations, nuBridges Protect is protecting billions of credit card transactions.

“Being named a finalist in three Network Products Guide award categories is an honor and testament to our core principle of listening to our customers to develop products that solve real-world data protection challenges, while lowering the cost of data security,” said Gary Palgon, nuBridges vice president of Product Management. “We’re excited to be recognized for our innovation among many impressive companies in this year’s competition.”

The Hot Companies and Best Product awards were created to honor and generate industry wide recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and IT professionals worldwide in every area. The winners will be announced on May 10, 2011, in Las Vegas, during an awards dinner and presentation.

About nuBridges

nuBridges provides technology solutions for extended enterprises that share sensitive data across applications, departments and organizations, and face complex security and compliance mandates. Its data encryption, data tokenization, key management, file transfer and EDI solutions help customers get information from point A to point B; do it safely; and prove compliance. Proven in production, nuBridges software and services readily scale across heterogeneous enterprise environments, including legacy systems, and offer unified visibility for improved analysis, decision support and administrative efficiency. nuBridges solutions and support have established a new standard of quality for the industry, and are trusted by the world’s most demanding organizations to exchange and protect billions of payment card transactions, personal data records and business-critical file transfers. More information is available at www.nubridges.com.

nuBridges Protect and Format Preserving Tokenization are trademarks of nuBridges, Inc.