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BISCOM AND vVAULT
PARTNER TO OFFER SECURE DOCUMENT DELIVERY
New Solution Enables
Users to Send and Receive Files to and from Electronic
Safety Deposit Box
New York, NY (October
3, 2000) - At the Financial
Technology Expo today, Biscom, a leading provider of
enterprise fax management solutions, and vVault Inc.,
a provider of secure online file management solutions,
announced that they will work together to provide secure
document delivery solutions.
"Although many organizations
use e-mail to transmit important confidential documents,
many users do not realize that Internet e-mail via SMTP
is quite insecure," explains Chris MacKenzie, Vice President
of Marketing and Business Development for Biscom. "If
a hacker can gain access to an insecure mail server
or even the right IP packets, a message can be read
or altered. Our goal is to provide a family of document
delivery solutions that are both safe and secure."
The secure document
delivery solution allows users to deposit documents
into an electronic safety deposit box from an application
on the desktop or from a production application via
an API. The system then sends the user's intended recipient
an e-mail or fax notification, which contains no confidential
information, of a URL where the electronic safety deposit
box and the document can be found. The recipients must
then authenticate to the server via a secure login via
their web browser and go to the location specified in
the e-mail message, before they are granted permission
to retrieve the document over a secure (SSL) connection.
Senders receive confirmation of the receipt of the document
and all transactions are automatically logged.
vVault components also
provide the ability to manage documents via wireless
devices and handheld computers. According to Will Aldrich,
Vice President of Business Development at vVault, "Our
web and mobile file management integrate tightly with
Biscom's core technologies, which address the structural
requirements of large enterprises. We believe that our
combined efforts will yield a particularly strong solution
for the financial services markets, where control and
security of information are mission critical."
In addition to providing
document security, document safety can be enhanced with
ConServR™, a complementary solution from the Lincoln
& Co. division of Biscom. ConServR is a document rendering
engine that enhances the ability of users to send documents
safely via both internal e-mail servers and web-based
mail services. ConServR prevents e-mail viruses from
being distributed via attachments, allows recipients
to view attachments without the applications themselves,
and limits recipients' abilities to alter any attachments
by rendering native Windows application files into image
file formats. For further information on ConServR, see
www.biscom.com/2000pr.html#conservr or www.lincolnco.com/ConServrData.html
The secure document
delivery solution also integrates with Biscom FAXCOM
enterprise fax management systems. Adds MacKenzie, "Now,
a user will have a choice of delivering a document via
fax or to an electronic safety deposit box. Either way,
users will have a more secure way to deliver documents
than ordinary Internet e-mail."
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