(openPR) Support for Documentum, New Languages and Files Formats, Now Available
23 October 2002 – SealedMedia today entered the corporate enterprise document security market with the latest release of its three core software components – the License Server, Sealer and Unsealer. These new versions have been improved to include important enterprise-related features such as support for Documentum’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform, expanded end-user functionalities as well as additional language and file format support. All three products will be available in October 2002.
The License Server is SealedMedia’s multi-threaded, high performance server, which stores and serves the end-user rights that the company’s Unsealer product uses to grant or deny access to sealed documents:
START TIME – enable access after a specified embargo date and time
STOP TIME – disable access after a specified expiration date and time
PRINTING – enable or disable printing of sealed documents
COPYING - enable or disable copying and pasting from sealed documents
SAVING - enable or disable saving the unprotected versions of sealed documents
SCREEN GRAB - screen grabbing of sealed documents is always disabled
WORK OFFLINE - enable or disable the ability to use sealed documents while offline.
As the Unsealer requests these rights from the License Server, the server generates a comprehensive audit trail of who has accessed which sealed documents, and when and where.
The License Server now provides support for Documentum’s enterprise content management (ECM) platform. SealedMedia has seamlessly integrated its content sealing solution with Documentum’s ECM platform using a new integration framework specifically designed to enable document sealing vendors to extend control over sensitive enterprise documents out from the ECM repository to the end user desktop.
Howard Shao, CTO & founder of Documentum explained: “SealedMedia provides an enterprise Document Sealing solution that enforces the Documentum security model beyond the repository - essential when documents are distributed outside the enterprise. Document Sealing complements the Documentum inter-enterprise workflow solution and is supported by our framework for Digital Rights Management.”
The Sealer is SealedMedia’s desktop application for document owners, which permits authorized users to define different security contexts for related sets of sensitive documents, to seal documents to belong to these contexts, and to assign users specific roles, and therefore rights, governing their access to documents sealed to these contexts.
Prior to this announcement, SealedMedia’s sealing and rights management function was primarily a server side process but, to adapt to the many to many enterprise publishing environment, the new client facing Sealer has been introduced. For enterprise users the needs of sealing and managing rights becomes more personalized and dynamic. The Sealer now offers document owners the flexibility to manage access to sensitive enterprise documents in less time than it would take to delegate responsibility to their IT department, resulting in a very low cost of ownership.
The Unsealer is SealedMedia’s freely available, shrink-wrapped and easily installable 2MB plug-in. End-users can only access sealed content using the Unsealer, subject to the rights they have been assigned.
With today’s announcement, SealedMedia now provides full support for French and German versions of the Unsealer. Additionally, two new file formats will be supported: Portable Network Graphics, PNG, an increasingly popular image format, and MPEG-1, the most common video file format. These new media formats strengthen SealedMedia’s commitment to its existing customer base. In all, SealedMedia now supports 11 different files formats, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, HTML, PDF, JPEG, GIF, MP3 and QuickTime.
Martin Lambert, CTO of SealedMedia, explained: “Our focus, of ensuring that confidential documents, no matter where or to whom they go, stay confidential is unchanged. Early on, we engineered software specifically for publishers - in doing this, our capabilities for sealing documents addressed a pattern of one sender to many recipients. However, corporate environments operate quite differently – typically on a many to many basis - so it was important that we adapt the product to the style of business environments. Now, with the introduction of the Sealer, which supports a many to many model and with the support of Documentum’s ECM, our ability to safeguard corporate customers is greatly improved.”
