Workshare Protect Mobile Delivers Industy's First Complete Mobile Workforce Data Loss Prevention Solution

Workshare today announced Workshare Protect Mobile, the industry's first connected and unconnected solution against loss of information in today's environment of highly mobile and portable data. Workshare Protect Mobile, part of the Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite, provides remediation against malicious and inadvertent information leaks due to lost, stolen and offline laptops, removable storage devices such as USB key drives, writable CD drives and iPods, messages originating on mobile devices such as Blackberry/PDAs, as well as messages from corporate email systems originating on web kiosks using products such as Outlook Web Access.

"Many employees need use of portable storage for normal job activities, such as a sales representative exchanging documentation or transferring a presentation," states a report by Gartner Research Vice President Rich Mogull. "Simply locking out portable storage (or encrypting files) may not be acceptable. Newer tools on the market allow for more granular control of portable storage use." (1)

Endpoint mobility data loss is now every enterprise's fastest growing concern. Points for concern include the following:

* A 60GB iPod holding 110 average-sized source code files can leave an

organization unnoticed;

* A 1GB USB Stick storing over 536,000 customer records could be

misplaced;

* Of 300 privacy breaches reported by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

since 2005, over 60 percent were Endpoint mobility losses from

malicious or inadvertent activities;

* 62 percent of 200 IT professionals polled by CIO Magazine in February

2006 were very worried about the loss of critical data via USB drives

and other portable devices -- outpacing concern over e-mail by 12

percent; and

* 45 percent of companies lack a security policy for working with data

outside the office according to CIO Insight's September 2006 issue.

Connected and Unconnected Remediation and Audit-Readiness

Workshare Protect Mobile adds USB protection, third party encryption and enhanced offline policy enforcement to the Protect Enterprise Suite. Workshare Protect Mobile remediates beyond alerting and blocking, with actions for curing content via hidden data removal, visible data redaction, file conversion, encryption and rights management. Together with audit tracking of actions on risky "data in use," it delivers online and offline information protection for regulatory compliance and internal procedures across to deliver customers the industry's most complete and integrated protection from:

Laptop data loss

* A "data at rest" scheduling and discovery tool that alerts users to risk

and provides administrator reports required for lost or stolen laptop

incidents;

* An encryption-ready client, automating lockdown of risky files, folders

or full disks, even when unconnected, through a variety of encryption

technologies;

* Enhanced offline enforcement of outbound content compliance policies.

Removable storage data loss

* Identity-based policy enforcement on copy, print, save, cut and paste

file actions. Covered ports include: USB, CD/DVD, iPod and U3 drives;

* An application-aware client, seeing one social security number in a

document and a row of them in a spreadsheet, with different

policy-based remediation actions.

PDA data loss

* A network-based risk assessment of PDA messages that can "Alert, Block

and Cure" content between the PDA service provider and the enterprise

email network;

* Attachments analysis on the network not viewable on PDAs that finds

important hacker blueprints or inadvertent hidden data risk before it

happens.

"There is overwhelming evidence that mobile data loss is a mounting issue for organizations," said Ken Rutsky, executive vice president of Marketing at Workshare. "It's easy to block, but it's hard to cure mobile data loss. Desktop agents, which simply block ports or audit activity, and network only solutions, which can't see unconnected devices or stop any data loss at the endpoint, don't solve the customer's problem. Understanding the customer requirements, Workshare, together with our partners such as Microsoft, Secure Computing and PGP, delivers the full ABC's (Alerting, Blocking, Curing) for all connected and unconnected devices without adversely impacting business productivity."

Pricing and Availability

Workshare Protect Mobile is an add-in module to Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite and integrates across the Policy Manager, Protect Client, and Network Protect. Protect Mobile add-in is priced at $10/user/year before volume discount and is available immediately.

About Workshare

Workshare, an Information Security company, delivers Secure Content Compliance solutions to over 5,500 organizations worldwide. Workshare solutions uniquely combine policy enforcement, management control and user education to ensure safe information exchange without business disruption. Its products include Workshare Protect Enterprise Suite, Workshare Professional, DeltaView and TRACE! Workshare's customer base spans small to large organizations in every industry segment with more than 58 percent of the Fortune 1000 and 85 percent of the ProServices 250. Over 1,000,000 professionals in 65 countries use Workshare software. The company has offices in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Washington DC, London, Frankfurt, Paris and Sydney. Workshare is the sponsor of http://www.metadatarisk.org, the definitive source for content security. For more information, visit http://www.workshare.com.

(1) Gartner Report, Top Five Steps to Prevent Data Loss and Information Leaks by Rich Mogull, July 12, 2006

Contacts:

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Dave McKee Alex MacLaverty

Schwartz Communications Hotwire

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Samia Rauf

Workshare Ltd.

+852 2251 8985

samia.rauf@workshare.com

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