WALTHAM, MA -- 06/30/08 --
Liquid Machines®, Inc.
(
http://www.liquidmachines.com), the leader in Enterprise Rights Management
(ERM) solutions, today announced that Pilz, the global leader in safety
automation equipment, has deployed Liquid Machines enterprise rights
management solutions (
http://www.liquidmachines.com/content11) throughout
its global infrastructure to prevent data loss from internal and external
sources. Pilz implemented ERM to protect critical research and development
(R&D) files, human resources, product and marketing information from
unauthorized access, loss or manipulation.
While Pilz owns 65 percent of the global safety and controls market, the
company continues to reinvest over 40 percent of its profits in research
and development to maintain its competitive advantage in product design and
development innovation. To persistently protect its product plans and
designs from leaking to competitors, Pilz explored technologies that would
bolster its existing information protection program without constraining
its collaborative research and design process. After an in-depth evaluation
of vendors and solutions, Pilz chose and deployed Liquid Machines to
persistently protect information regardless of its location and easily
define and enforce multiple security policies to its intellectual property
without interrupting their collaborative and innovative environment.
"Liquid Machines' unique approach to ERM protects information at rest, in
transit and in use and enables Pilz to collaborate across the globe with
confidence while not interfering with our innovative workplace," said Steve
Farrow, Managing Director, Pilz. "After an extensive review of solutions,
we chose Liquid Machines because they made it easy for our business users
and IT staff to work with protected information without affecting existing
workflows. Liquid Machines' flexible policies allow us to safeguard the
company's infrastructure from common causes of data loss such as mobile
employees, computer theft and employees that are leaving the company for a
competitor."
"Pilz understands that the key to its competitive advantage is ensuring the
security of its intellectual property and confidential files from both
external hackers as well as insider threats," said Mike Ruffolo, chairman
and CEO at Liquid Machines. "All it takes is one instance of unauthorized
access for data to be inadvertently leaked to a competitor or to the
public, resulting in the loss of competitive advantage. With Liquid
Machines, Pilz puts the protection and control with the data, giving the
company the confidence and control needed to enable collaboration while
ensuring persistent information protection wherever it resides. This
enables Pilz to focus on driving innovation and growing its market share."
Protection, Collaboration and Automation
Liquid Machines' solutions persistently control access to and usage of
electronic files regardless of where they exist -- even outside the office
-- without changing the way users work. Pilz chose Liquid Machines' easily
implemented technology largely because of its ability to encrypt and
persistently protect all data while providing a seamless and automated
experience for the end users at Pilz, resulting in minimal impact on
existing workflows and employee behavior. Benefits include:
-- Protection: In addition to R&D related files, product and HR records,
clients' financial information is also shared with various outside partners
and stakeholders and Pilz needed to extend the Liquid Machines solution to
ensure data is in the right hands for the right reasons. Because of this,
Liquid Machines' support for more than 400 file formats was a competitive
differentiator. Liquid Machines also collects a digital audit trail of
information usage in support of corporate governance and industry
compliance requirements, giving Pilz confidence that its information is not
reaching the competition.
-- Collaboration: Liquid Machines provides Pilz with collaborative
benefits such as offline and expiration controls. Unlike other ERM
solutions, Liquid Machines provides superior offline support, allowing
users to work with and share protected information while outside the office
or disconnected from the network. Instead, the product's expiration feature
allows mobile users to access encrypted information from a Pilz server and
continue to work with it even without an Internet connection. If the user's
laptop does not check in with the central Liquid Machines server within a
configured timeframe, the information becomes inaccessible. Pilz can also
assign expiration dates to data so team members collaborating worldwide are
using the most current project files. Using this unique feature, Pilz is
able to revoke rights to all outdated plans or schematics the moment an
updated version of the document is available to prevent the usage of
outdated specifications.
-- Automation: Liquid Machines enables Pilz to automate the protection
process by protecting the contents of networked file shares. Policies
control which users have access to specified files based on directory or
folder location, as well as the action those users take on file including
open, read, write, save, save as, copy/paste and print. As files are saved
to, or created in, a protected file share, policies are automatically
applied. Files are automatically protected using industry-standard
encryption technology.
Liquid Machines also announced today that Pilz has been selected by
Computerworld's Infrastructure Management World (IMW) Conference, the
premier event for leaders in the data center and infrastructure management
sector, as an Honoree of its "Best Practices in Infrastructure Management"
Awards Program in the category of "Security, Compliance and Risk
Management" for its deployment of enterprise rights management technology
[see related release: "Computerworld's Infrastructure Management World
Names Pilz as an Honoree Of Its "Best Practices in Infrastructure
Management" Awards Program"].
A full case study detailing the motivating factors behind Pilz' decision to
deploy Liquid Machines' ERM solutions and its subsequent success is
available to the general public on the Liquid Machines web site:
http://www.liquidmachines.com/customer-case-pilz?num=3.
About Pilz GmbH & Co. KG
Pilz GmbH is Europe's largest and most-respected maker of safety automation
equipment, offers leading-edge safe automation solutions and control
products. Products include sensor technology, electrical monitoring relays,
automation solutions with motion control, safety relays, programmable
safety and control systems and an operating and monitoring range. Safe bus
systems are also available for industrial networking. Pilz also provides a
comprehensive range of consulting, engineering and training services.
Accredited consultants are available for worldwide services for risk
assessment, safety concept, safety design, CE services and safety sign-off.
For more information, see www.pilz.com.
About Liquid Machines
Liquid Machines is the leading provider of enterprise rights management
(ERM) solutions that prevent the misuse, modification, loss or theft of
intellectual property and sensitive information. By applying access and
usage controls to the data itself, electronic information is persistently
protected while at rest, in transit and in use -- empowering employees to
securely collaborate and work with native file formats and applications.
Liquid Machines enables global companies in the financial services,
government, manufacturing, retail and healthcare industries to protect
intellectual property regardless of where it goes, generating detailed
access and usage reports that demonstrate compliance with privacy and
industry regulations. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Liquid Machines is
privately held and is backed by Atlas Venture, Draper Fisher Jurvetson,
Goldman Sachs & Co, Masthead Venture Partners and RRE Ventures. For more
information on the company and its vision for The Freedom of Security(TM),
please visit www.liquidmachines.com.
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owners. The information contained in this document represents the current
view of Liquid Machines, Inc. on the issues discussed as of the date of
publication.
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