Liquid Machines Announces Industry’s First Enterprise Rights Management Online Seminar Series

Regulatory Compliance and Vertical Industry Solutions to Highlight Educational Webcast Series

WALTHAM, MA -- 01/10/2005 -- Liquid Machines, Inc., the leading provider of Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) solutions, today announced “The Freedom of Security - Enabling Compliance with Enterprise Rights Management” - a five-part Webcast series focused on educating CIOs, CSOs, Compliance Officers, and IT Managers about ERM technology and how it can help them comply with regulations, protect intellectual property, and reduce risks by automatically enforcing retention policies.

The Liquid Machines “The Freedom of Security - Enabling Compliance with Enterprise Rights Management” Webcast series will focus on the corporate governance, information security and regulatory compliance issues facing leading organizations and offer best practice solutions based on specific industry requirements. Each Online Seminar will include a live demonstration of Liquid Machines’ leading Enterprise Rights Management technology and audience Q&A.

“Enterprise Rights Management is becoming a central component of every company’s compliance program,” said Ed Gaudet, vice president of product management and marketing at Liquid Machines. “The goal of this Webcast series is to help executives and IT decision makers learn how Enterprise Rights Management can help them overcome the challenges of information control while still enabling employees, consultants, and business partners to work collaboratively.”

Liquid Machines Enterprise Rights Management Webcast series begins Thursday, January 13, 2005, at 2:00 p.m. ET with “Email Lifecycle Management,” presented by Liquid Machines director of product management Chris Barclay. This session will detail how Liquid Machines Email Control helps organizations comply with regulations that mandate messaging controls and stipulate retention policies.

Additional Seminar Dates & Topics:

-- Liquid Machines and Microsoft RMS - Thursday, February 17, 2005 @ 2 p.m. ET: This seminar will demonstrate how Liquid Machines can help organizations maintain strong controls on regulated and confidential information and extend the Microsoft RMS platform to provide support for applications beyond Office 2003.

-- Missing Controls for Sarbanes-Oxley: How to Close the Gaps - Thursday, February 24, 2005 @ 2 p.m. ET: In order to comply with SOX, organizations must implement controls on enterprise information in both back-office and standard desktop applications. This Webcast will demonstrate how Enterprise Rights Management solutions can help organizations control information used in the financial reporting process, especially financial data in Excel spreadsheets and emails, and archive information as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley regulation.

-- Best Practices for Email Compliance and Controlling Confidential Information - Thursday, March 10, 2005 @ 2 p.m. ET: This seminar will demonstrate how Enterprise Rights Management solutions can help Investment Banks and Hedge Funds maintain strong controls on privileged and confidential information in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC 17-4, NASD 2711, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Safeguards Rule, and other mandates that customers and the government demand.

-- Enterprise Rights Management for Life Sciences - Thursday, March 17, 2005 @ 2 p.m. ET: Life Science organizations must maintain strong controls on regulated and confidential information. This Webcast will demonstrate how Enterprise Rights Management solutions protect emails and documents to ensure confidentiality of intellectual property and to comply with HIPAA and other regulatory mandates.

To register for any or all of these Webcasts, please visit: http://www.liquidmachines.com/news/events.php.
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 content to be shared securely, within any application, wherever it goes. With Liquid Machines, protection is open rather than restrictive, enabling users to work as they work best, with autonomy and confidence.

Liquid Machines helps leading companies in the financial services, high-tech manufacturing, and life sciences markets meet today’s ever- increasing information security regulations. Liquid Machines allows companies to satisfy industry regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley, NASD 2711, export control, and HIPAA as well as 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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