DocBlaster ‘D-Day’ Provides Ultra Low-Cost Document Defense
DocBlaster unveils a new content security and control model - viewable on almost any device. D-Day provides the most cost effective document control available with an easier to manage, more efficient architecture.
(PRWEB) June 6, 2005 -- DocBlaster today launched its new document security
architecture, eclipsing traditional digital rights management in many ways – for
a fraction of the cost. Code-named ‘D-Day,’ the Microsoft Windows and
Office-based software solution automatically reformats content for intelligent
display of document images on almost any device – starting at $6 per concurrent
end user, per year.
“DocBlaster D-Day provides a unique content
firewall,” Eric Wilson, IT journalist and software inventor says. “End users
don’t need to trust other people’s content and code running on their machines,
and content providers don’t need to trust end user machines to enforce digital
rights. In this respect, our methodology seems much more secure than the
others.”
More than 210 million Windows XP and Pocket PC’s already have
‘Remote Desktop’ software installed, which may be used to receive D-Day’s live
document images. Being uniquely optimized, DocBlaster D-Day can also be used
with other remote display protocols to transmit secure Word document images from
Windows 98 and above - to Macintosh, Unix or even Palm devices. Millions of cell
phones also have or can be given the ability to receive live D-Day document
images.
Organizations can use DocBlaster D-Day in conjunction with
Windows Terminal services or Citrix Metaframe, to serve document images to
remote locations - while at all times keeping their information under tight
centralized control. This means documents can be easily updated or rescinded.
And, records of which users viewed which documents, when, and for how long, are
also possible.
Unlike traditional digital rights management, a complex
and commonly accepted public key infrastructure (PKI) is not required. With
DocBlaster, there’s no need to create a ‘police state’ on every end-user’s
machine.
“D-Day creates a bridgehead in recipient machines without
puncturing their own local security,” Eric Wilson says. “It does this by only
sending appropriately reformatted live images of content, not the content files
themselves. So end-user risk of document-based virus transmittal is reduced to
zero.”
The new architecture also answers recent search result security
scares, where extracts of confidential information have been unwittingly cached
in browsers and proxy servers. D-Day minimizes the problem by only sending
temporary live images of search results, for which only selected summaries of
interest are displayed in any case.
Losing notebooks and handheld devices
is also less painful. By only sending live document images, information can’t be
stolen from missing end user machines, since the content doesn’t have to be ever
stored there.
“I should say there’s no free lunch in IT, so the price for
all this low-cost convenience is network dependence,” Eric Wilson admits. “But
with the advent of always-on broadband, wireless, satellite and cellular data,
this issue is slowly going away.”
Yet even today, D-Day’s intuitive
folder search and integrated document display lets users zoom more directly into
the exact part of their required information. This process can be orders of
magnitude faster and takes less bandwidth than downloading an entire document
for one to scan through.
“With download-based security models, such as
Microsoft’s Palladium initiative, you might need to somehow secure all the
recipients’ machines”, Eric Wilson says. “And people also need to agree on a
previously created and commonly trusted public key infrastructure. All this
could involve massive upgrades, including touching every machine, only to have
someone snap your content with a cheap digital camera once it’s
displayed.”
Therefore not even Mr. Wilson advocates D-Day as a silver
bullet. Rather, it’s the most cost effective document control available, being
easily implemented using simple set up processes.
“Being based around
Microsoft Windows and Office, D-Day can work in parallel with traditional
digital rights management,” Eric Wilson says. “But given its superior
capabilities, we regard it as a super substitute.”
For a limited time,
end users can qualify for deeply discounted D-Day subscriptions by contributing
to the DocBlaster Progress Fund. DocBlaster D-Day is due to ship at the end of
the year, with a Flash demonstration of Beta 1 now available at www.docblaster.com. In
September 2005, DocBlaster will announce the finalized name under which D-Day
will be made generally available. More information about D-Day’s document
search, display, security and distribution architecture, plus ‘Mulberry’ stable
control technology for Microsoft Office, is now available at http://www.docblaster.com.
Microsoft Office is a
trademark of Microsoft Corporation. MetaFrame is a trademark of Citrix Systems.
DocBlaster is a trademark of The Eric Wilson Family
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