Ridgeland, Mississippi - September 12, 2005

Today, Venture announces that it has inked an Agreement with CipherTrust to become a Premier Reseller of its products and services. CipherTrust's e-mail security appliance enhances Venture's ability to help its clients maximize productivity while protecting an organization's most precious asset - its data.

As organizations continue to rely on e-mail for conducting business, the need to prevent unwanted e-mail intrusion is paramount. Interruption or degradation of the e-mail infrastructure due to SPAM, viruses, fraud or security breaches is costly and poses serious threats to any organization. CipherTrust's innovative and patented IronMail appliances are installed at the perimeter of an enterprise network, between the firewall and e-mail servers. Using a comprehensive threat response architecture, IronMail appliances provide a "hard face" to the Internet and protect an organizations e-mail infrastructure.

The CipherTrust Difference:

• IronMail is a hardened gateway security appliance. It is the only solution to provide a security-based approach to protecting the e-mail infrastructure, including integration of an application-layer firewall and intrusion detection.

• IronMail provides complete e-mail gateway security. No one else provides protection from all e-mail borne threats in one integrated solution.

• CipherTrust invests significant time and money into monitoring and analyzing e-mail security threats. Our commitment to ongoing research and development ensures our ongoing ability to provide protection against new threats.

• CipherTrust Threat Response Updates provide optimal configurations for IronMail, eliminating administrative burden while maintaining top performance.

• CipherTrust is the leader in the e-mail security field with more Fortune 100 customers and end-user e-mail boxes protected than any other solution provider; and a strong record of profitability and financial stability.

For more information see www.ciphertrust.com

About CipherTrust:

CipherTrust, Inc. is the leader in messaging security. Trusted by more than 30% of the Fortune 100, and with more enterprise e-mail users than any other solution - over 8 million and growing - CipherTrust delivers unparalleled e-mail security and SPAM protection.

About Venture:

Venture Technologies is an IT services company founded in 1985 by Gerard Gilbert, CDP and Norman Katool, CPA and headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi. The company provides a variety of solutions including Network Design and Integration, Network Security, IP Telephony, Document Management, Storage and Backup and Data Center-Based Managed Services. Venture serves private and public sector clients across the Southeast with locations in Memphis, Birmingham, Nashville and Baton Rouge.

For more information, contact Mark Frye, VP Sales and Marketing - AL/MS or email jmfrye@ventech.com or Tom Cormany, VP Sales and Marketing - TN 901-937- 7101 or e-mail wtcormany@ventech.com. Read more about Venture Technologies at www.ventech.com.