Microsoft

"Liquid Machines' unique approach to rapidly deploying Rights Management Services protection throughout an enterprise is going to help solve a number of key information protection challenges that our customers face," said Michael Atalla, business development manager in the Microsoft SBTU. "As such, Liquid Machines is an invaluable partner for Microsoft in this market. The real heart of this relationship is that our technologies are simply better together."

Liquid Machines provides the following value-added capabilities in conjunction with Microsoft RMS:

• Support for Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office 2000 and XP, Visio
• Audit logging for all user actions on protected information (e.g. Read, Write, Print, Clipboard)
• Persistent clipboard protection to ensure that information copied between documents does not lose its protection
• Automatically apply enterprise policies to email messages sent through Exchange

"The integration of Windows Rights Management Services into Liquid Machines' products will help to ... broaden the number of enterprise rights management solutions available to customers," said John Manferdelli, general manager in the Microsoft Security Business and Technology Unit at Microsoft Corp. "Customers have told us that they have information inside their enterprises that they want to stay there or at least to be shared only in the way intended. Building solutions that help facilitate that principle in a flexible way for authors and recipients will add real value to the management of information inside companies and we're glad to partner with Liquid Machines in this effort."

To read more about the partnership, download the white paper, "Liquid Machines & Windows RMS: End-to-end Enterprise Rights Management" or go to the Microsoft RMS website.