Elron Software Launches Product to Secure Content In Electronic Communications

Business Wire, April 27, 1999

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1999--

CommandView Message Inspector is First E-mail Filtering Product to

offer the Linguistic Expertise of The Oxford University Press(tm)

Elron Software announced today the release of CommandView Message Inspector(tm) -- an intelligent content security solution for e-mail, newsgroups, and FTP messages. CommandView Message Inspector helps organizations minimize the risks associated with electronic communication in the workplace. These risks include legal liability from offensive messages, loss of confidential or sensitive information, and performance degradation of the network due to congestion from SPAM and excessive use of attachments.

Utilizing two distinct algorithms - Adaptive Relevant Ranking(tm) (AR2) and Dynamic Co-Location Dictionary(tm) -- Message Inspector can filter content based on the actual context of the message in order to effectively manage, filter, and if necessary block company electronic communications. In addition to its patent pending Full-Text filtering technologies, Elron Software has partnered with a world renowned language expert in the Oxford University Press(tm). This partnership provides Message Inspector with the entries and contextual definitions of offensive language as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary(tm). Message Inspector is the only content security product on the market that offers context sensitive filtering techniques in the form of Lexical analysis and Full-Text filtering in order to produce a much more accurate result than simple key word or string matching technologies.

"Organizations have embraced the Internet to enhance the level of communication between their employees, customers, business partners, and the public," said Kelly Haggerty, Elron Software Product Manager. "Message Inspector is a management tool for organizations to ensure that when employees use the Internet to communicate electronically, these communications don't contain confidential information, or offensive, harassing, or otherwise libelous messages."

At the Social Law Library (Boston, MA), Automation Director Bernard Piccione recently installed CommandView Message Inspector. Concerned not only about the liability and confidentially issues, Piccione also wanted to minimize the amount of unsolicited e-mail entering the network. "Getting rid of unnecessary e-mail helps free up bandwidth and server disk space," said Piccione. "There is just so much unsolicited, garbage e-mail out there that can clog up your network. With Message Inspector, it was easy to establish rules, policies, and filtering profiles," said Piccione.

About CommandView Message Inspector - Key Features

Message Inspector also offers a Web User Interface allowing for remote administration from any standard Web-browser, as well as automatic e-mail alerts for immediate notification of possible policy violations. As part of Elron Software's CommandView product family, Message Inspector compliments three other best-of-breed product solutions for helping organizations manage the productive use of their Internet connection. The CommandView family includes Internet Manager(tm), the #1 content management solution for web surfing, Bandwidth Optimizer(tm), a leading solution for monitoring, analyzing, and managing your bandwidth, and CommandView Firewall(tm), an award-winning, high performance security solution. Each product in the Elron CommandView family can be installed on the same Windows NT Server. A complete description of features is available at (http://www.commandview.com).

Pricing and Availability

CommandView Message Inspector is available through distributors such as Ingram Micro (NYSE:IM) and Tech Data (NASDAQ:TECD), Value Added Resellers (VARs), and directly through Elron Software. Pricing starts at $1,195 for a 25-user license. For additional information about Elron Software and CommandView Message Inspector, visit the Elron Software web site at (www.elronsoftware.com) or call Elron Software toll-free at 1-800-406-5833.

About Elron Software, Inc.

Elron Software Inc. (Cambridge, MA), Internet Products Division, is part of Elron Electronic Industries LTD., (NASDAQ:ELRNF) - a multi-national company headquartered in Haifa, Israel. In 1997, combined sales for the Elron group was $1.2 billion. With an installed base of six million licensed users at over 13,000 organizations, Elron Software's Internet Products Division provides solutions to help organizations maximize the productivity and performance of Internet connected networks. Elron Software's customers include: Westinghouse, NFL Properties, Inc., U.S. Army, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Ltd., Stride Rite Corporation, and BF Goodrich.