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Tumbleweed named finalist in SC Magazine Excellence Awards

Company's MailGate solution finalist in Best SME Security Solution category

Redwood City, CA - Dec. 11, 2006 - Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (NASDAQ:TMWD), providers of innovative messaging security solutions, has been named a finalist in SC Magazine Awards program for outstanding achievement in information-technology (IT) security. Its MailGate product line was named an Excellence Award finalist for the SME Security Solution category, for products specifically designed to meet the requirements of small to mid-sized enterprises (SME).

IT-security vendor companies nominate their solutions for consideration in SC Magazine Awards program, and entries are judged by a panel of 17 chief information security officers at major corporations, insight from the Awards Council, and, in some cases, test results from West Coast Labs.  Winners will be announced at an awards event to be held in San Francisco in February.

“Innovations like what we’ve seen from Tumbleweed demonstrate the vibrancy and vitality of the IT security industry,” says SC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Illena Armstrong.  “They represent breakthroughs that will benefit our readers and, in turn, corporate users of technology.”

The MailGate Product Suite is a family of products for protecting, filtering and monitoring corporate email.  These products enable businesses to manage inbound and outbound traffic, block threats, encrypt messages and optimize network performance.  MailGate products include MailGate Appliance, MailGate Email Firewall™ software and MailGate Secure Messenger™ software, each optimized for specific environments and security challenges.

About SC Magazine
SC Magazine provides IT security professionals with in-depth and unbiased information through timely news, comprehensive analysis, cutting-edge features, contributions from thought leaders and the best, most extensive collection of product reviews in the business.  By offering a consolidated view of IT security through independent product tests and well-researched editorial content that provides the contextual backdrop for how these IT security tools will address larger demands put on businesses today, SC Magazine enables IT security pros to make the right security decisions for their companies.  The brand’s portfolio includes the SC Magazine Awards, SC Directory, SC Magazine Newswire and SC Magazine IT Security Executives Forums.

About Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed provides world-class innovative messaging security solutions for organizations of all sizes.  Organizations rely on Tumbleweed's solutions to securely manage their Internet communications, spanning email management to file transfers. Tumbleweed has more than 2,300 customers worldwide, representing industries in Finance, Healthcare, and the U.S. Government. The world’s most security conscious organizations rely upon Tumbleweed technology including Bank of America Securities, JP Morgan Chase & Co., the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S. Department of Defense. Our award-winning products build on thirteen years of R&D and 25 security patents in the U.S. alone – many of which are licensed by other security vendors, http://www.tumbleweed.com/company/patents/patent_licenses.html. For more information, visit www.tumbleweed.com.

Tumbleweed, the Arrows logo, MailGate, MailGate Appliance, MailGate Email Firewall, MailGate Secure Messenger, SecureTransport and Validation Authority are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Tumbleweed Communications Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
Tumbleweed cautions that forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on current plans and expectations as of the date of this press release, and that a number of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from the guidance given at this time. These factors are described in the Safe Harbor statement below.

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 innovative quality of Tumbleweed’s solutions, the features and performance of those solutions, and any benefits related to them.  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 Form 10-K filed March 16, 2006 and Form 10-Q filed November 9, 2006.

Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release. Although this release may remain available on Tumbleweed’s website or elsewhere, its continued availability does not indicate that Tumbleweed is reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein.