Liquid Machines Announces Support for Adobe Acrobat and Other Applications Through Windows Rights Management Services

Market Wire, February, 2005

RSA CONFERENCE 2005 -- Liquid Machines, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) solutions, today announced the Beta release of Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server 2003.

Liquid Machines is demonstrating Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for RMS at the Microsoft "Building Trust in Computing" Pavilion (booth #604) at the RSA Conference. Liquid Machines will also preview Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for RMS at the RSA Conference Theatre on Wednesday, February 16th at 1:15 p.m.

"Concerns over intellectual property leakage, regulatory compliance, and data privacy are making it necessary for organizations to invest in an area we refer to as Content Security," said Dan Keldsen, Senior Analyst and Chief Technology Officer at Delphi Group (www.delphigroup.com), a Perot Systems company. "As enterprises evaluate Content Security solutions, they must ask two important questions: Can the security scheme consistently be applied across platforms, applications, and content types and does the system enable collaboration and innovation as well as 'locking down content?' Delphi Group sees enterprise rights management (ERM) and solutions such as those from Liquid Machines and their partner Microsoft, as key components in a modern Content Security architecture."

Liquid Machines Document Control v5.0 extends RMS policy enforcement to desktop and enterprise applications including Adobe® Acrobat and Microsoft Visio. Additionally, Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 will allow customers to make optimal use of existing Microsoft investments and use Microsoft Office 2000 and Office XP to view and modify RMS-protected documents created in Office 2003. Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for RMS provides users with persistent protection of electronic information throughout the collaborative business process -- from the moment of creation through distribution, editing, storage, and subsequent destruction and disposal. User actions, such as distilling a rights-protected document to Adobe Acrobat, maintain the RMS policy of the original document on the derived file.

"One year ago, Liquid Machines announced a common vision with Microsoft for controlling regulated and other business-critical data using RMS throughout the enterprise. Today, we are delivering on that vision," said Mike Ruffolo, president and CEO at Liquid Machines, Inc. "The goal of every enterprise is to extract maximum value from their resources. Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 moves customers closer to that goal by extending RMS to enable more-secure, autonomous collaboration among users, across applications, between companies, and over the Internet."

"Our customers have told us that they want to use RMS to protect sensitive information in a variety of enterprise applications," said John Chirapurath, director of product marketing in the Security Business and Technology Unit at Microsoft Corp. "Liquid Machines' support for Adobe Acrobat and other applications through RMS addresses this critical need and helps ensure the protection of information in a broad range of important business scenarios."

"We applaud the integration between Liquid Machines and Microsoft," said Chris Lavelle, vice president of Security and Infrastructure at Idea Integration, a Microsoft Gold Certified Security Solutions Partner. "The Fortune 1000 and middle-market companies we serve want to take advantage of RMS to help secure applications such as Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Visio. Liquid Machines makes that possible and ensures persistent information protection across their heterogeneous business processes."

Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for RMS

Liquid Machines Document Control for RMS extends the RMS platform to other key business applications. RMS allows users to apply enterprise-defined templates or user-defined policies to information. Policies define privileges for information, such as read, edit, print and clipboard. Liquid Machines Document Control extends these capabilities through the Liquid Machines Policy Droplet control(TM) to Microsoft Visio, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft Office XP.

In conjunction with the beta availability of Liquid Machines Document Control 5.0 for RMS, Liquid Machines also announced today support for RMS Service Pack 1 (SP1). Many organizations have asked Microsoft to allow them to apply rights protection policies to information in a more centralized way, at the server or network level. RMS SP1 will enable integration with 3rd party server-based applications for more comprehensive information protection across the RMS platform.

"RMS SP1 meets enterprise customer requirements for integration of information protection to protect back-office, server-based applications," said Ed Gaudet, vice president of product management and marketing at Liquid Machines. "We plan to take advantage of RMS SP1 in the next release of the Liquid Machines Email Control product and further extend RMS information protection to emails delivered to wireless devices such as Blackberry and email archival systems such as KVS."