SealedMedia Simplifies Enterprise Digital Rights Management; SealedMedia Version 5.0 Provides Unprecedented Control and Management of Email and Digital Content

Business Wire, April 11, 2006

LOS GATOS, Calif. -- SealedMedia Inc. today launched Version 5.0 of its flagship enterprise digital rights management (E-DRM) platform. The new release delivers unprecedented scalability, improved corporate compliance controls, and intuitive Web-based administration tools that simplify enterprise deployments.

SealedMedia 5.0, which debuts following rigorous real-world enterprise testing, features a Standard Administrative Model and a Web-based Management Console. These enhancements, coupled with the overall simplification of the implementation process, position SealedMedia 5.0 as a mainstream E-DRM solution for everyday enterprise users who need to safeguard digital content within, across and between organizations.

"SealedMedia 5.0 offers a bold leap in functionality coupled with unprecedented simplicity," said SealedMedia CEO George Everhart. "It delivers E-DRM to the masses, safeguarding e-mail and digital content in the age of corporate compliance."

Enterprise Needs

SealedMedia 5.0 arrives at a critical time for CIOs, senior IT managers and risk management professionals. According to a recent survey of 29 companies that have deployed enterprise content management (ECM) systems:

--only 45 percent of employees within those companies use the ECM system, meaning that content isn't fully protected in the enterprise

--76 percent of participants say they are missing important content protection and control functionality

--80 percent of participants are interested in a solution that would allow them to protect content once it is checked out of the ECM system.

SealedMedia 5.0 is designed with these needs and more in mind. The release builds upon the company's extensive real-world experience with more than 60 large-enterprise customers and partners, and leverages existing business processes while strengthening workflows. In essence, SealedMedia 5.0 transforms E-DRM from a complex technology into a plug-and-play solution for everyday enterprise users.

Key SealedMedia 5.0 differentiators include:

--Corporate Compliance Enforcement: SealedMedia 5.0 was designed with corporate compliance in mind. The software's Standard Administrative Model provides a hierarchical system that manages rules and enforces auditable segregation of duties. For instance, SealedMedia 5.0 can ensure that financial managers can't access HR records, and vice versa. Such capabilities are critical as companies strive to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other government mandates.

"With SealedMedia 5.0, you are able to very quickly implement a robust, loophole-free, auditable and manageable system that supports Sarbanes-Oxley requirements such as segregation of duties," said Everhart. "Rival offerings can't do this because they lack enterprise-wide rules capabilities."

--Enterprise-wide Administration: Unlike other E-DRM products -- which are implemented based on individual discretion -- SealedMedia 5.0 supports enterprise-wide administration of policies. This ensures that SealedMedia 5.0 scales in global environments, and doesn't suffer from default restrictions that frequently plague rival E-DRM deployments.

--Ease of Implementation: SealedMedia 5.0 leveraged the company's real-world experience with many large enterprises, fine-tuning the implementation process to speed deployments. In several instances, beta testers deployed and configured SealedMedia 5.0 on a departmental level in less than an hour, while previous releases required a day or more.

For a detailed description of SealedMedia Version 5.0, other products and customers please refer to the website at www.sealedmedia.com.

About SealedMedia, Inc.

SealedMedia helps organizations maintain complete control over who can use their most sensitive information and when, for the lifetime of a document. Executives and employees can send emails and documents securely to anyone, anywhere in the world, while easily maintaining control over when, where and how the information is used, and by whom. Headquartered in Los Gatos, California with European offices in London, UK and North American sales offices in Boston, Massachusetts, SealedMedia has an enviable customer base of Fortune 500, Global 1000 and FTSE 100 companies, as well as governments and government agencies around the world.

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