XML-Based Redaction Helps Agencies Mask Classified and Sensitive Information; Supports The Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act of 2005

June 20, 2005 - Bagshot - ZyLAB, an innovative developer of content management and compliance solutions for paper intensive organizations, today announced that it is now offering advanced redaction as a standard tool within its ZyIMAGE Product Suite. This new offering addresses the growing need for a reliable and affordable Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution to ensure confidential information is reliably redacted 100 percent of the time.

ZyLAB's solution will specifically help Federal Agencies address The Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National (OPEN) Government Act of 2005 which is focused on expediting how Agencies handle requests for government information under FOIA. Specifically addressing OPEN, ZyLAB's solution will provide FOIA officials with the right tool to fill requests and help Agencies get timely responses to requests.

Key benefits to the ZyLAB redaction solution include:

Wide Range of Functionality
ZyLAB's new redaction tools offer a full range of the most-requested redaction features, including redaction on scanned images as well as click-and-drag capabilities, multi-color redaction, synonym redactions (replacing a name with a code), version control, and more. Redactions can be tagged with additional key-field information, which can contain data and time stamps, comments or applicable legal rules, redaction creators, and additional user-defined key fields.

More security than PDF or MS-Word
Redacted documents can be exported as XML with multi-paged TIFFs or image PDFs. Unlike standard PDFs or Word files, though, in which the redacted text isn't always 100 percent secure, a ZyIMAGE-created PDF does not contain any hidden traces or references to the original text. In other words, the redaction is "burned" into the PDF or image, making it impossible for anyone to manipulate the redacted information or to recover the redacted text.

Prevention of Disclosure Blunders
As soon as redactions are applied they are added to the XML structure of the documents. Because the redactions are linked in a perpetual manner to the documents, historical redactions are immediately available if a document is redacted at a later moment in time. This capability ensures that sensitive parts of original documents will not be disclosed even if that document needs to be used at different times in different contexts with different sets of redactions.

Functionality developed in tandem with users
ZyLAB designed its electronic redaction tool with the input of many ZyIMAGE power users, such as the War Crimes Tribinals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia as well as several UK and USA law-enforcement and government officials.

This XML-based redaction solution adds to the already comprehensive ZyIMAGE product suite that also contains tools for case management, advanced discovery, e-disclosure and other tools supporting important government and legal productivity activities.

About ZyLAB
Founded in 1983, ZyLAB is the leading provider of low-cost content management and compliance solutions for small-and-medium-sized business (SMB) and government organizations that need to digitally file and manage millions of pages of paper and electronic documents. ZyLAB's comprehensive investigative capabilities, with its high quality search and retrieval features supporting over 200 languages, gives users the ability to organize and easily share all information online. In particular, ZyLAB solutions are relied upon extensively by legal, law enforcement/intelligence, and financial/back-office professionals.

With more than 7,000 installations worldwide and over 300,000 users, ZyLAB has a wide breadth of experience and knowledge across a variety of different industries and business applications. Our clients include Gloucestershire County Council Environment Department, Metropolitan Police, Serious Fraud Office, University Hospital of Wales A&E Department, BBC, and Dell Computers. ZyLAB UK is located in Bagshot and is part of the worldwide ZyLAB network that serves its global customers from offices in Virginia (USA HQ), Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Singapore and Australia. For more information visit www.zylab.co.uk

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Charlotte Louveaux
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