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CONTENT SECURITY VETERAN SIMON WILSON JOINS WORKSHARE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

SurfControl Chief Financial Officer Brings Industry Know-How to Workshare's Expansion

San Francisco, Calif.- January 18, 2006- Workshare, the leading provider of document integrity solutions, today announced that Simon Wilson has joined its board of directors. Wilson currently serves as chief financial officer and member of the board of directors for SurfControl, plc, the world leader in enterprise threat protection.

"Simon Wilson has helped make SurfControl a market leader in the content security market and brings a broad industry perspective to what security market public companies require," said Joe Fantuzzi, CEO of Workshare. "His experience in driving international growth both organically and via acquisition will accelerate Workshare to our next level of success. Simon's guidance will help Workshare further penetrate the document-centric segment of the emerging outbound content compliance market, which IDC forecasts to surpass $500 million by 2009."

Wilson joined SurfControl in 2000 and was appointed chief financial officer and member of its Board in 2001. During his term at SurfControl, Wilson led the company to become cash flow positive and profitable with one of the strongest balance sheets in the sector and led the acquisition of six technology companies. Wilson joined SurfControl from KPMG's U.S. Corporate Finance Practice, where he specialized in advising software and IT services companies on all aspects of domestic and cross-border acquisitions, sales, divestitures and financings.

"Workshare has established a clear and simple solution for businesses that want to protect the security and ensure the compliance of their most important documents," said Wilson. "Workshare software is deployed across hundreds of thousands of seats at major professional services, corporate and government organizations worldwide. I look forward to advising Workshare as it takes full advantage of the opportunities this market holds for its complete solution for the secure and compliant production and sharing of documents throughout their lifecycle."

Prior to KPMG, Wilson held a variety of finance director roles at subsidiaries of Misys plc after having spent five years with Ernst & Young. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, and holds a degree in commerce, with honors, from Birmingham University, England.

About Surf Control
SurfControl plc the leading provider of enterprise threat protection that shields organizations from known and emerging Internet dangers through Layered Threat ProtectionSM. The Company has redefined traditional "filtering" into a unified set of Web, e-mail and messaging security solutions that continuously filter inbound and outbound Internet traffic to eliminate spam, spyware, phishing and Web and e-mail abuse. SurfControl provides Adaptive Threat IntelligenceSM from its Global Threat ExpertsSM to respond quickly with automatic, proactive security updates to protect customers. Customers avoid significant business downtime that impacts productivity and the bottom line while limiting legal liability and enforcing regulatory compliance and confidentiality. SurfControl has more than 20,000 customers worldwide, and employs more than 500 people in offices across the United States, Europe and Asia/Pacific. For further information and news on SurfControl, please visit www.surfcontrol.com/.

About Workshare
Workshare is the industry leading provider of Document Integrity software applications for professionals. Its products include Workshare Professional, DeltaView, DeltaView PE, Protect and TRACE! Workshare's customer base spans small to large organizations in every industry segment with more than 55 percent of the Fortune 1000 and 85 percent of the ProServices 250. In total, more than 5,000 companies and over 800,000 professionals in 65 countries use Workshare software. The company has offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Washington DC, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney. Workshare is the sponsor of www.metadatarisk.org, the definitive source for content security. For more information, visit www.workshare.com.