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Workshare Unveils The Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite to Cure Information Leakage without Crippling Business

New Server and Network Products Enhance World's Leading Content Security Client to Deliver Industry's First Unified Network and End-point Outbound Security Solution

San Francisco, Calif.- February 6, 2006 - Workshare, the leading provider of document integrity solutions, today unveiled The Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite-a powerful content security solution built on Workshare Hygiene technology, first previewed at DEMOfall 2005.

Workshare Protect Enterprise unifies fragmented approaches to outbound content compliance, converting risky content to safe information, containing sensitive information within established perimeters, and controlling confidential content as it leaves the company over electronic channels. Only Workshare delivers this unique combination of integrated approaches to effectively prevent widespread privacy breaches, intellectual property leakage and inadvertent financial disclosure that often result from dirty and dangerous content.

"IDC believes that customers want a holistic, integrated approach to security. Often, they are forced to juggle a patchwork of several point products to satisfy even a few policies," said Brian Burke, IDC Research Manager. IDC expects the outbound content compliance market to grow to $1.9 billion by 2009. "Workshare is rising to the challenge by delivering an integrated approach that reduces complexity for frustrated end-users and struggling IT security staff."

The entire suite, which will be showcased next week at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Jose, Calif. (Booth # 2229 and the Microsoft Partner Pavilion), consists of Workshare's award-winning Protect client, installed at more than 1,000 organizations worldwide, the Workshare Policy Manager and the new Workshare Network Protect gateways-all of which work independently and together to deliver the right cure, at the right time, and in the right place without crippling existing business processes.

Workshare Protect client: Workshare's market leading and award-winning client allows for the creation and management of content security policy and educates users as it enforces this policy. Working both online and offline, the Protect client removes risky content, converts information to appropriate formats and applies content rights. Rather than simply stopping business, Protect's rich client warns and educates users in real-time about sensitive information and, if authorized, lets them decide how to treat the content.

Workshare Network Protect: Workshare's new network channel gateways provide IT security staff with visibility and policy enforcement into content leaving the organization via network channels such as HTTP and SMTP. By deploying Network Protect, organizations can provide a robust last line of audit and control on outbound network traffic.
Workshare Policy Manager: Workshare's enhanced policy management offering provides a centralized policy management console for the creation and distribution of outbound content policy for both Protect client and Network Protect deployments. In addition, the Policy Manager delivers complete reporting and visibility into activity at both end-points and network egress points, and offers pre-packaged, customizable policy packs.

The Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite's Identity-based Routing monitors all business information, checking content, context and sender, recipient, channel and device identities. Protect automatically cures content by cleansing metadata, removing violations, encrypting emails, applying RMS rights, and converting to secure PDF-even delivering instant, real-time alerts to users as they work that signal dangerous data or actions that could violate internal policy or financial, privacy, discrimination and intellectual property regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, CASB 1386 and others currently enforced or under consideration worldwide.

"Confidential information is pouring out of companies, government agencies, and healthcare and educational institutions," said Joe Fantuzzi, CEO of Workshare. "Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite delivers the security industry's first end-point to network solution that cures information flow from dirty and dangerous content. The Protect client already provides the first line of defense, educating users as it prompts them for compliant content while Network Protect now provides a final safety net for information leaving via perimeter egresses and an intelligent monitoring system that measures and improves compliance."

Pricing and availability
The Protect client is available now, starting at $29 per user annually before volume discounts. The Protect Policy Manager and Network Protect will be available in appliance and server deployment modes for additional fees in calendar 2Q 2006.

About Workshare
Workshare is the industry leading provider of Document Integrity software applications for professionals. Its products include Workshare Professional, DeltaView, Protect and TRACE! Workshare's customer base spans small to large organizations in every industry segment with more than 60 percent of the Fortune 1000 and 90 percent of the ProServices 250. Over 5,000 companies and over 800,000 professionals in 65 countries use Workshare. The company has offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Wash DC, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Hong Kong and Sydney. Workshare sponsors www.metadatarisk.org, the definitive source for content security. For more information, visit www.workshare.com.