Liquid Machines Extends Microsoft Windows RMS With New Liquid Machines Email Control 6.0

Market Wire, November, 2004

Liquid Machines, the leading provider of Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) solutions, today announced Liquid Machines Email Control Version 6.0, an easy-to-use policy management and secure messaging solution that enforces corporate messaging policies consistently across the extended enterprise.

Liquid Machines Email Control 6.0 makes it possible for companies to exchange secure confidential communications with anyone -- employees, customers, partners, suppliers -- regardless of what email system they use and without requiring any special software, downloads, or additional steps for the recipients. Liquid Machines Email Control 6.0 enhances Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server 2003 with server-side policy enforcement capabilities. These capabilities place email control in the hands of the enterprise by automatically applying protection at the email gateway based on corporate policies. Liquid Machines Email Control incorporates technology obtained during Liquid Machines' recent acquisition of Omniva Policy Systems (see October 20, 2004 news release: Liquid Machines Acquires Omniva Policy Systems - http://www.liquidmachines.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/511).

"Liquid Machines Email Control 6.0 is a major addition to our industry-leading enterprise rights management solution," said Michael Ruffolo, president and CEO of Liquid Machines, Inc. "Email is the way that businesses communicate and get their work done. Liquid Machines Email Control lets organizations empower their workforce to share and distribute information securely and productively."

"Customers have told us that protecting their sensitive information is a crucial business need," said John Chirapurath, director in the Security Business and Technology Unit at Microsoft Corp. "We believe by building on the RMS platform customers will find great value in the Liquid Machines solution as it extends their core services to offer persistent server-side policy management that helps meet their corporate governance and compliance objectives."

Liquid Machines Email Control 6.0 includes the following new features and functionality:

--  Support for Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services -- Microsoft
    Office 2003 desktop users are able to set policies on individual messages
    and attached documents. Liquid Machines Email Control 6.0 enhances this
    capability by extending the enforcement to mail servers and relays.
    Together, Liquid Machines Email Control 6.0 and Microsoft Windows RMS apply
    policies to emails and attached documents based on enterprise-defined
    rules, ensuring consistent policy application for all incoming and outgoing
    email.

--  Persistent Policies Applied Based on Corporate Guidelines -- Liquid
    Machines Email Control 6.0 allows organizations to set corporate email
    usage policies and ensures those policies are applied to email messages and
    attached documents based on enterprise-defined rules. Policies are
    persistently enforced through the email lifecycle, on any message that goes
    through the Exchange server, no matter where the message goes internally or
    externally.  Email distribution can be controlled and protected after
    delivery, regardless of whether it is located within or outside the
    company.  Integration with email archive solutions ensures that policy
    enforcement can include support for email retention and surveillance.

--  Rapid and Easy End-User Rollout and Adoption -- Allows end users to
    send and read a rights protected message seamlessly without going through
    additional steps or downloading any additional software.

--  BlackBerry® Support -- Liquid Machines Email Control 6.0 extends and
    manages enterprise usage policies on email messages and attachments sent to
    and from BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds(TM) from Research In Motion (RIM)
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--  Intelligent Archiving with KVS -- Integration with KVS allows
    protected messages to be securely archived in the KVS Enterprise vault for
    a designated duration based on message contents.

--  Content Filtering and Anti-Virus Scanning Support -- Integration with
    SurfControl allows protected messages to be securely scanned, modified, and
    quarantined without compromising the controlling policy.

--  Automated Compliance Routing and Reporting Services -- In addition to
    tracking what messages were allowed or denied to be opened, administrators
    can now track events such as messages being blocked from delivery or when a
    policy rule is triggered. This information is stored in a defined schema
    that allows for easy integration with enterprise reporting tools.
    

"Liquid Machines Email Control 6.0 is an ideal solution for any enterprise wanting to control the circumstances under which corporate information can be used, such as when it expires and who can open, modify, print and forward it," said Ed Gaudet, vice president of product management and marketing at Liquid Machines, Inc. "For example, a financial services company can easily set a usage policy that any email and attachment from a member of the financial control group containing financial terms cannot be distributed outside the group, must expire in 90 days, and that a copy must be archived for compliance for 1 year."