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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 email to transmit important confidential documents, many users
do not realize that Internet email 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 email 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 going to the location specified in the email 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 email servers
and web-based mail services. ConServR prevents email 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.htm#conservr
or www.lincolnco.com/ConServrData.htm.
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 email."
Biscom and vVault will be exhibiting at the Financial Technology Expo in New York in booth #438,
October 3-5, 2000, as well as at COMDEX Fall in Las Vegas, booth #L261, November 13-17, 2000.
The secure document delivery solution is currently being offered as an integration service of Biscom
Consulting Services. For more information on Biscom and Biscom's products visit Biscom's web site
at www.biscom.com, send an email to sales@biscom.com
or contact a Biscom account representative at 1-800-477-2472 (+1-978-250-1800 outside U.S.A.).
About Biscom
Founded in 1986, Biscom is widely recognized for its pioneering advances in the technology of enterprise
fax management. FAXCOM fax servers operate on heterogeneous networks with a variety of operating
systems, messaging applications, and ERP applications and simplify and control the process of sending
and receiving faxes throughout the enterprise. Biscom provides end to end fax solutions that are
reliable, scalable and flexible. Biscom's complete fax solutions offer on-sight installation, T1
and PBX integration, 7x24 support, application consulting, and expert imaging, network and communications
engineering support. FAXCOM fax servers have won numerous awards, including, most recently, the
NetWork Computing Well-Connected Award for the year 2000.
About vVault
vVault, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., is the premier
ASP of mobile file access solutions for leading destination sites, enterprises, and their enablers.
vVault's Mobile File Access Solutions enable destination sites and e-businesses to bring personalized
productivity services to mobile device users in a scalable, secure, and easy-to-integrate Web-based
application. vVault offers its flagship products FileMinder and BeamDocs - in addition to enterprise
solutions based on vVault's technology platform - directly and through its distribution partners.
vVault, Inc. was founded in June 1999. More information can be found at www.vVault.com.
©2000 Biscom, Inc.FAXCOM is a registered trademark of Biscom, Inc. ConServR™ is a
trademark of Biscom, Inc. vVault™ is a trademark of vVault, Inc. All other registered trademarks
or trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Specifications subject
to change without notice.
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