Epok's New Software Product Provides Secure Extranet Capability for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Business Wire, July 25, 2007

Enterprises and Government Agencies Can Now Securely Leverage Strategic Partnerships When Deploying Microsoft SharePoint 2007[R]

BETHESDA, Md. -- Epok, Inc., a provider of software that allows IT administrators to securely manage the extranet use of leading information sharing tools such as Microsoft SharePoint, EMC Documentum[R] and Sun Portal Server[R], today introduced a new software product designed to help commercial and government organizations securely deploy Microsoft SharePoint 2007 collaboration to extranet users.

Epok's ISE[R] Edition for Microsoft SharePoint allows simpler and more secure management of extranet users. With this added functionality, business users can better collaborate with contractors, partners, vendors, or people within different divisions of their own companies. IT departments can authorize SharePoint site administrators to provision extranet users themselves - ending the flood of provisioning requests IT has to handle. This approach improves security and information compliance by adding new controls and reporting on both user activity and information use.

"As large numbers of commercial and government agencies look to deploy SharePoint 2007 as a means of collaborating with trusted partners, IT departments are being squeezed by the increased need to provision SharePoint users coupled with the potential security risk this presents," said Nigel Simmons, Vice President, Product Management, Epok, Inc. "Epok's ISE Edition for SharePoint puts provisioning control back in the hands of the business user while increasing a company or agency's security and compliance posture."

ISE Edition for SharePoint capabilities include:

* Extending collaboration and information sharing tools securely across the enterprise and beyond

* Relieving IT access management burdens

* Returning control to business users

* Extending the existing SharePoint solution - no new user interface

* Allowing SharePoint site administrators to manage extranet partners and users

* Reducing rogue user risk

* Simplifying extranet infrastructure management, and

* Boosting compliance readiness.

About Epok

Based in Bethesda, Maryland, Epok, Inc. is a privately funded software company. Epok's ISE software allows IT administrators to securely manage extranet use of information sharing tools - including SharePoint, EMC Documentum, Sun Portal Server, MediaWiki[R], Alfresco ECM[R], and others. For more information, please visit www.epok.net.