Liquid Machines Extends Enterprise Rights Management Leadership With Google Mini Enterprise Search Appliance Integration

Market Wire, April, 2006

Gilbane Content Management & E-DRM Conference 2006 -- Liquid Machines®, Inc., the leading provider of Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) solutions, today announced the Liquid Machines Google Mini Gateway -- a first-of-its-kind solution that enables organizations using the Google Mini enterprise search appliance to index and search rights-managed content.

Using the Liquid Machines Google Mini Gateway, enterprises can create and maintain a comprehensive index of rights-managed enterprise content, and make that index available to authorized users via the familiar Google search interface. The solution recognizes when the Google Mini appliance requests a protected document, and dynamically decrypts the document to provide a clear-text copy for indexing. When a request comes from a standard user, protected documents matching the key search criteria appear as links in the Google Mini interface. The requested file is rights-managed, with access and usage policies seamlessly enforced using Liquid Machines Document Control(TM).

"We manage thousands of sensitive documents including customer lists, resumes, and training materials. Google Mini gives us the ability to index this information, and makes it easily searchable for our employees," said Angel Mehta, CEO of Sterling-Hoffman Executive Search. "As our business has grown, so has the potential for information theft. Liquid Machines integrates with Google Mini to allow our employees to find the information they are looking for while allowing us to maintain control over how information is used and distributed."

"Protecting regulated and sensitive corporate data is the number one priority for today's enterprises," said Ed Gaudet, vice president of product management and marketing at Liquid Machines, Inc. "The Google appliance is an important tool for increasing the overall productivity of information workers; however, enterprise search introduces new risks to regulated and confidential data. The Liquid Machines Google Mini Gateway allows customers to leverage the power of enterprise search while maintaining the protection and control of sensitive business documents, spreadsheets, and other electronic content."

Google Mini can be directed at various web-enabled resources within an organization to develop and maintain its index. One common scenario that Google Mini users employ is to locate documents on a file share such as a Windows NTFS file server and web enable the share using a web server such as Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). Organizational documents are scanned, indexed, and made available to users via the results of Google search queries. This allows users to search and locate protected content within the enterprise, but the content they download to their desktops retains its persistent protection. The Liquid Machines Google Mini Gateway is one more way in which Liquid Machines brings the power of rights management to the entire enterprise while preserving and enhancing user productivity.

Availability

Liquid Machines Google Mini Gateway is available immediately. For more information, please visit http://www.liquidmachines.com or send an email to: info@liquidmachines.com .

About Liquid Machines

Liquid Machines is the leading provider of Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) solutions that persistently protect critical business content and audit usage while enabling collaboration. Liquid Machines' Document Control and Email Control solutions allow companies in the consulting, financial services, government, manufacturing, and healthcare industries to share information securely, within any application, wherever it goes, throughout its lifecycle. Liquid Machines ERM solutions help enterprises satisfy today's ever-increasing information security regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, NASD 2711, HIPAA and others, as well as implement and practice internal mandates for intellectual property security, product version control, or clinical data protection.

Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Liquid Machines is privately held and is backed by Atlas Venture, Masthead Venture Partners, and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. For more information on the company and our vision The Freedom of Security(TM), visit us at www.liquidmachines.com .

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