For Immediate Release

Bluefire Security Technologies Receives Planet PDA™ Magazine “Product of the Year” Award for 2004

Bluefire Mobile Security Suite 3.5 Honored for Outstanding Innovation

Baltimore, MD July 28, 2005 — Bluefire Security Technologies announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)’s Planet PDA magazine (www.planetpdamag.com) has named the Bluefire Mobile Security ™Suite 3.5 as a recipient of a 2004 Planet PDA™ Product of the Year Award.

The Bluefire Mobile Security® Suite 3.5 is the latest version of Bluefire Technology Security’s flagship wireless data security solution, offering enterprises unprecedented levels of protection from attacks, as well as protection of data stored on, and transmitted to and from, mobile devices.

“We’re proud of and most grateful for this honor,” said Mark Komisky, CEO and Co-Founder of Bluefire Security Technolgies. “Our product enables IT managers to implement the same security policies on mobile devices they employ on desktops and laptops. Another feature unique to the BluefireMobile Security® Suite 3.5 is its elimination of the need to manually collect and link device and owner information, thus saving time for our clients.”

Bluefire Mobile Security® Suite 3.5 enhancements include:

• Over-the-air architecture, which eliminates dependency on cradling to keep enterprise mobile device security policies up to date.
• Automated user management through integration with Microsoft® Active Directory.
• Automatic registration, which speeds PDA security deployment with intelligent mobile device recognition and user identity linking.

“Each year Planet PDA magazine bestows its Product of the Year awards on companies that have demonstrated excellence in technological advancement and application refinements in the handheld computer industry. Bluefire Security Technologies has demonstrated to the editors of Planet PDA that its products or services have gone the extra mile to create a truly innovative handheld computing product,” said Rich Tehrani, President and Group Publisher of Planet PDA.

The Product of the Year Award winners for 2005 will be published in the April 2006 issue of Planet PDA magazine online (www.planetpdamag.com).