By Allan Maurer
HERNDON, VA—If you send sensitive email using GigaTrust’s security software, depending on your company’s policies, the user may not be able to forward, print, save or keep the document. Expanding in Europe on the heels of its recent $11 million fifth round, the company extends MS Windows Rights Management Services to how email content can be used.
Founded in April 2000, the 50-employee company is hiring, primarily in development and sales, says Harry Piccariello, chief marketing officer for GigaTrust.
He explains the company’s software, which is sold both in a licensed and an SaaS version, “Puts rights and conditions on the email” a company sends based on its established policies.
“We can shut off forwarding, stop you from printing, and even put an expiration date on it. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the Enterprise or outside using a notebook or a Blackberry.”
GigaTrust’s technology is based on the XrML standard, which is deployed through Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
RMS is a content security technology that applies protection directly to content instead of restricting access to the content.
GigaTrust’s software can be deployed on PCs, laptops and on the RIM BlackBerry. It supports all web mail services (Yahoo, AOL, Google), and works with Outlook Web Access.
GigaTrust’s Intelligent Rights Management enables secure anyone-to-anyone collaboration inside or outside the enterprise by persistently protecting content at rest, in transit, or in use for PCs, laptops and BlackBerry devices.
The GigaTrust solution ensures all content is protected to meet compliance and corporate governance regulations in regard to privacy, document retention, monitoring, e-discovery, and notifications.
The company’s three top markets are the federal government, manufacturers and the financial sector.
GigaTrust signed a major contract with the Veteran’s Administration in 2007, a good year for the company all-round, as it also had record revenues, new products announcements such as CAD security with the acquisition of Pinion Software, and made new partnerships with IBM and RIM.
Piccariello says the company’s software helps protect intellectual property and privacy.
It also helps companies meet corporate governance and regulatory requirements such as HIPPA’s medical records privacy rules, Sarbanes Oxley.
When the current economic mess settles, the financial services sector, changed by large mergers and new, tougher government oversight, is likely to need the GigaTrust product “more than ever,” says Piccariello. “This will help tremdously with corporate governance and compliance,” he notes.
On the Web: www.gigatrust.com
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