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Authentica Delivers New Version of Secure Mail and Enhancements to Active Rights Management Platform.


LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Dynamic, Enterprise Platform Protects and Controls Internal and External E-mail Communications, Meets Security and Privacy Needs of Growing Global Enterprises

Authentica Inc., the leader in Enterprise Rights Management (ERM (Enterprise Relationship Management) An umbrella term with many shades of meaning over the years. It may refer to the management of information from any or all of an organization's customers, suppliers, business partners and employees. ) solutions, today announced a new version of Authentica Secure Mail, as well as enhancements to the Active Rights Management(TM) (ARM) platform. Authentica Secure Mail Version 4.0 offers the most complete solution for protecting e-mails and attachments from point-to-point secure delivery to after-delivery control. Based on the ARM platform, Authentica Secure Mail provides more options than any other product for e-mail protection, rights management and delivery. Enhancements to the ARM platform include extended direct support for all content e-mail filtering Email filtering is the processing of e-mail to organize it according to specified criteria. Most often this refers to the automatic processing of incoming messages, but the term also applies to the intervention of human intelligence in addition to artificial intelligence, and to  engines and secure delivery of e-mails and documents via Web link and point-to-point communications between business partners.

The Authentica ARM platform and Secure Mail product meet the needs of companies that are increasingly concerned about information security, consumer privacy and regulatory compliance issues. In today's challenging business environment, the mobile workforce is growing exponentially. The number of partners and consumers that businesses communicate with on a daily basis is growing at the same rate. Companies need a secure messaging environment that is easy-to use, automated and fits into current IT infrastructure and existing workflows and processes.

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, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Authentica. "Authentica is responding to this need with a dynamic solution that offers both secure delivery and rights management with a full information lifecycle audit trail. And we do this without disrupting their everyday processes and IT infrastructure."

Authentica Secure Mail

Authentica Secure Mail provides users with the most flexible and advanced rights management solutions for secure e-mail, ensuring that e-mail is kept confidential and allowing access by authorized users authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal  only. Authentica allows e-mail senders to manage all permissions, preventing unauthorized forwarding, printing and saving of information, while also providing a full audit trail of all accesses to e-mail and attached documents. Secure Mail also leverages pre-existing authentication systems so that the user experience is transparent. This latest release delivers:

--Automatic and transparent availability of offline permissions: Provides mobile professionals with automatic access to protected content whether or not they are connected to a network.

--Enforcement of corporate-wide e-mail security policies: Corporations can set policies for expiration and retention of e-mail to comply with regulatory requirements and ensure that all protected e-mails adhere exactly to those policies. Users can be prevented from overriding the corporate policy.

--Support for Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market.  for e-mail authoring: Supports e-mail editing with Microsoft Word, in addition to Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see .

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--Display of rights policies clearly within each e-mail message: Recipients of rights protected e-mails will see expiration dates Expiration Date

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 and all permissions displayed clearly with the message.

--Internationalization: Supports entry of double byte/Asian characters for messages, attachments, and addresses.

Active Rights Management Platform

The Authentica Active Rights Management platform provides flexible protection options to meet the needs of both business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications. It is the foundation of Authentica's full suite of security solutions, including Authentica Secure Mail, Authentica Secure Documents for Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. , and Authentica Secure Documents for Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. . The latest release delivers:

--Support for all content filtering See Web filtering and parental control software.  engines: Direct support for all e-mail content filtering engines, allowing organizations to send secure e-mails in compliance with regulatory requirements without requiring changes to existing mail infrastructure.

--Secure point-to-point communications between partners: Secure delivery of e-mails and documents between business partners using Transport Layer Security (TLS (1) (Transport Layer Security) A security protocol from the IETF that is based on the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 protocol developed by Netscape. TLS uses digital certificates to authenticate the user as well as authenticate the network (in a wireless ).

--Enhanced user control and audit functionality: Provides direct user control over e-mail access, expiration dates, message recalls and permissions.

Pricing and Availability

Enhancements to both Secure Mail and the ARM platform will be available mid-summer. For more information visit www.authentica.com.

About Authentica

Authentica is the leader in enterprise class solutions that actively control, secure and track information, wherever it resides. Authentica's proven Active Rights Management (ARM) software platform enables secure collaboration, publishing, and persistent control of intellectual property throughout its lifecycle. Authentica's products are used by Fortune 2000 organizations and government agencies to securely share valuable information internally and with external partners. Investors include 3i US, Greylock, North Bridge Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Symantec Corporation, and Venrock. Authentica is headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts Lexington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 30,355 at the 2000 census.

The town is famous for being the site of the opening shots of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first engagement of the American Revolution.
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Authentica is a registered trademark and Active Rights Management is a trademark of Authentica, Inc. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.
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