Liquid Machines Announces New Compliance and Ease-of-Use Feature Enhancements for Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services

Liquid Machines Document Control 6.0 for Microsoft Windows RMS Delivers New Capabilities to Support Information Auditing and Persistent Policy Enforcement; Built on Microsoft .NET to Offer Customers Seamless Integration and ROI Benefits

RSA Conference 2006 - San Jose, CA. - - February 15, 2006 Liquid Machines®, Inc., the leading provider of Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) solutions, today announced Liquid Machines Document Control™ 6.0 for Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server 2003.  Liquid Machines Document Control 6.0 for RMS delivers a number of new usability, reporting, administrative, and architectural enhancements that improve user experience, support compliance and intellectual property protection initiatives, and increase return on existing IT infrastructure investments.

 

Introduced in June 2005, Liquid Machines Document Control for RMS extends RMS access and usage controls of content including open, read, write, save, save as, print, and print screen across 65 different applications and file formats including Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Visio. New features of Liquid Machines Document Control 6.0 for RMS include secure collaboration, application-level auditing and reporting, centralized policy distribution and enforcement, and support for the Microsoft .NET architecture.

 

“Microsoft and Liquid Machines share a common vision for Enterprise Rights Management that puts information control in the hands of the enterprise and allows users to work with and share information,” said Ed Gaudet, vice president of product management and marketing at Liquid Machines. “With this release, we are again delivering on that vision - providing enhanced user-collaboration and enterprise-control capabilities that further extend the power and productivity of RMS deployments.”

 

“As part of our HIPAA compliance initiative, we need to control the flow of sensitive information and limit access to authorized hospital personnel and certified third parties. Today we use Liquid Machines to automatically assign corporate-defined RMS rights to e-mail messages based on message content and intended recipients,” said Mike Ray at Eastern Health Systems. “We’re looking forward to using Liquid Machines Document Control 6.0 new auditing and reporting functionality because it will allow us to track how RMS protected information is used, including blocked actions, which will let us effectively demonstrate compliance and information protection.”

 

“Many customers, such as Eastern Health Systems, are facing information protection challenges that are industry specific and influenced by ongoing compliance mandates,” said John Chirapurath, director of Identity and Access Product Management at Microsoft Corp. “We are pleased to be working with Liquid Machines to deliver to customers an end-to-end information protection platform that helps protect information in line with their corporate governance and compliance objectives without inhibiting collaboration and user productivity.”

 

Liquid Machines Document Control 6.0 for RMS includes the following new features and added platform support:

• Secure Collaboration: Allows users to leverage all of an application’s collaborative operations including “cut/copy, paste”, “drag and drop,” and merge without removing RMS protection. RMS rights will automatically follow the content wherever it goes to ensure enterprise policies are consistently enforced.
• Application-Level Auditing and Reporting:  Enables the organization to monitor application-level events such as open, save, save as, send as e-mail, print, etc. on protected files in support of compliance mandates such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Safeguards Rule, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, the National Association of Securities Dealers Rule 2711, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
• Enhanced Policy Administration & Enforcement: New management features give organizations the ability to set role-specific expiration and off-line use restrictions. For example, all executives could have rights to access and print documents off-line while other employees must be connected to the network to read a document. Administrators can dynamically modify rights and revoke access without republishing documents. Additionally, administrators can also increase enterprise control by restricting users from creating their own policies. 
• .NET Architecture: Provides customers with a common, Web services-based application infrastructure that enables them to leverage existing architecture and IT skill-sets. New .NET architecture also allows customers to publish and manage policy templates across multiple servers. 

Liquid Machines is demonstrating Liquid Machines Document Control 6.0 for RMS in kiosk #4a at the Microsoft Partner Pavilion (booth #1115) at the RSA Conference 2006, February 13-17 in San Jose, Calif., at the McEnery Convention Center. For more information on Liquid Machines RMS solutions, read Liquid Machines & Windows RMS: End-to-end Enterprise Rights Management whitepaper available at: /contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/581/num/5.

 

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™, visit us at www.liquidmachines.com.

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