EdgeWave Named Winner in 2011 Golden Bridge Awards for Best Anti-Spam and Best URL/Web Filter Technology

SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - Aug 15, 2011) - EdgeWave Inc. (OTCBB: EWVE) (OTCQB: EWVE), a leader in Secure Content Management (SCM) solutions, has earned prestigious Golden Bridge Awards for Best Anti-Spam and Best URL/Web Filter Technology for their Email and Web Security solutions, respectively.

Industry and peer awards from Golden Bridge Awards are considered to be the world's premier business awards. Organizations from all over the world, including public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large to small and even new start-ups, are eligible to submit nominations.

This is the fourth industry award win for EdgeWave this year, whose Web and Email Security solutions were previously recognized with a 5-Star rating by SC Magazine as well as top honors from Info Security Products Guide.

Named as a winner in the category of "Best Anti-Spam Service," EdgeWave Email Security protects against internal and external messaging threats including spam, viruses, botnets, spyware, phishing schemes, identity theft, and inappropriate content. The company's zero-touch solutions include hosted services and appliances that are fully managed by EdgeWave messaging security experts. EdgeWave appliances include Vx Technology, which provides automatic failover to a hosted service in case of overwhelming attacks or when needed for load balancing. Vx Technology insures uninterrupted email security should unforeseen events occur affecting email servers or power resources. This performance resiliency is the industry's first true hybrid messaging security protection, integrating a local network appliance with a hosted service. In addition to a fully managed appliance, EdgeWave also offers a comprehensive fully-hosted messaging security suite which includes solutions for inbound and outbound spam filtering, data loss protection, continuity, email archive and encryption.

Named as the winner in the category of "Best URL/Web Filtering," iPrism is an industry-leading Internet filtering and Secure Web Gateway appliance solution boasting millions of end users worldwide across thousands of enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies. iPrism protects organizations from security, regulatory, productivity and network performance risks that can result from inappropriate use of Web, IM and P2P. Delivering enterprise-level features with the simplicity valued by small to mid-size organizations, iPrism provides multilayered protection from threats such as malware, botnets, viruses, spyware, circumvention tools, anonymous browsing, IM, P2P, and inappropriate content.

More than 40 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world participated and their average scores determined the 2011 Golden Bridge Business Awards winners. The winners were announced during the awards dinner and presentation on August 10, 2011 in New York attended by the finalists, industry leaders, and judges.

"We're honored that EdgeWave has earned top recognition in this year's Golden Bridge Award for Best Anti-Spam and Best URL/Web Filter technology," said Ron Kaplan, Director of Product Management at EdgeWave. "Our top priority is to provide customers with the most advanced and relevant security technology available that helps mitigate internal and external emerging threats. We're excited to have our efforts recognized by this esteemed award."
The coveted annual Golden Bridge Awards program encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, products and services, executives and management teams, innovations, case studies, product management, public relations and marketing campaigns and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. Details about The Golden Bridge Awards and the lists of honorees in all categories are available at http://www.goldenbridgeawards.com/awards/2011.

For more information regarding EdgeWave and its Secure Content Management solutions, please visit www.edgewave.com or call 1-800-782-3762.

About the Golden Bridge Awards
Golden Bridge Awards are an annual industry and peers recognition program honoring Best Companies in every major industry from large to small and new start-ups in North America, Europe, Middle-East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin-America, Best New Products and Services, Best Innovations, Management and Teams, Women in Business and the Professions, Case Studies, Customer Satisfaction, and PR and Marketing Campaigns from all over the world. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com

About EdgeWave Inc™
EdgeWave Inc. (OTCBB: EWVE) (OTCQB: EWVE) develops and markets on demand, on-premises, and hybrid Secure Content Management (SCM) solutions to the mid-enterprise and service provider markets. The EdgeWave portfolio of web, email and data protection technologies delivers comprehensive secure content management with unrivalled ease of deployment and the lowest TCO on the market. The company's award winning iPrism Web Security and Email Security products have been expanded to include email archiving, data loss protection, and email encryption services. With 6,500 customers and over 200 partners worldwide, EdgeWave strives to deliver simple, high performance solutions that offer excellent value.

Based in San Diego, California, EdgeWave markets its solutions through a network of value added resellers, ISPs and MSPs, distributors, system integrators, OEM partners and directly to end users. For more information about EdgeWave, visit www.edgewave.com

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