Zix Corporation Addresses New HIPAA Regulations

New HIPAA era has arrived; ZixCorp executive offers advice for healthcare
businesses to ensure compliance

DALLAS, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Zix Corporation (ZixCorp(R))
(Nasdaq: ZIXI), the leader in hosted services for email encryption, today
announced that ZixCorp Vice President and HIPAA subject matter expert, Geoff
Bibby, is available to discuss the recent amendments to the healthcare privacy
and security obligations under the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA). On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The healthcare portion is known
as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
(HITECH Act) and it contains drastic changes to the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This new legislation has
significant ramifications, most notably in the following areas - enforcement,
breach notification, implication for business associates and use of
encryption.

Bibby is available to speak on any HIPAA-related topics, including:
-- Why email encryption should be a high priority compliance area for
healthcare enterprises
-- Needed improvements to security practices, including use of
policy-based
encryption
-- How new HIPAA legislation drastically alters the healthcare privacy
and
security environment and the associated challenges
-- Enforcement changes including fines exceeding $1 million
-- How companies can become compliant with the new HIPAA standards

-- Impact of these changes on business associates

HIPAA requires use of methods for rendering Personal Health Information (PHI)
data in paper or electronic form unusable, unreadable, or indecipherable to
unauthorized individuals while in motion. However, recent history has provided
examples of healthcare organizations distributing PHI via unsecure e-mail. As
enforcement continues to be more extensive and penalties more punitive,
today's security breaches, even those without any discernible risk of harm,
will be broadly publicized, often dictated by regulations, and can be
financially catastrophic for non-compliant businesses, including a new tiered
penalty structure ranging from $25,000 to $1.5 million. Healthcare
organizations and their business associates need to begin to address the new
requirements in order to be compliant with the February deadline.

If you are a member of the media and would like to schedule a conversation
with Mr. Bibby, please contact ZixCorp Public Relations at (972) 341-2527.

In addition, this week ZixCorp will be attending the Blue Cross and Blue
Shield Association's 2009 Compliance, Ethics, HIPAA and Privacy/Security
Conference in Seattle, Washington from June 23 - June 26, 2009. ZixCorp
currently provides email encryption services for 30 Blue Cross and Blue Shield
organizations, including the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

About Zix Corporation

Zix Corporation is the leader in email encryption and payor sponsored
e-prescribing services. ZixCorp offers the simplicity of Software as a Service
with the convenience of customizable encryption policies. ZixCorp provides
automated key management "in the cloud" for all its customers, resulting in a
scalable, reliable, easy-to-use and simple-to-administer service. ZixDirectory
is the largest email encryption directory in the world enabling seamless and
secure communication among communities of interest. ZixDirectory connects over
17 million members and includes over 800 financial institutions, the FFIEC
federal banking regulators, 20 state banking regulators, over 30 Blue Cross
Blue Shield organizations and more than 1000 hospitals. ZixCorp's
PocketScript(R) e-prescribing service saves lives and saves money by
automating the prescription process between payors, doctors and pharmacies.
For more information visit http://www.zixcorp.com/.

SOURCE Zix Corporation

Public Relations, Becca Harpham, +1-972-341-2527, bharpham@golinharris.com,
for Zix Corporation; or Investor Relations, Peter Wilensky, +1-214-515-7357,
invest@zixcorp.com, of Zix Corporation