Announcement

Disappearing Inc. Unveils Disappearing Email Service

Enables Enforcement of Corporate Email Policies; Provides Self-Destruct Mechanism for Protecting Confidentiality of Email Messages

INDIAN WELLS, CA (February 7, 2000) - Disappearing Inc., a San Francisco-based developer of email policy systems, today announced Disappearing Email, which lets individuals keep their email conversations private, and enables companies to implement and enforce email policies that reduce liability and provide security.

"Email is actually very dangerous right now because private, casual email conversations frequently become permanent, public records," said Maclen Marvit, Disappearing Inc.'s CEO. "Disappearing Email ensures message confidentiality by making all copies of an email message self-destruct after a certain length of time as determined by corporate policy."

Disappearing Email eliminates the risks of unprotected email by enabling centrally administered corporate policies and ensuring routine destruction of old messages, including those stored on backup tapes. Disappearing Email operates transparently inside users' standard mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook, and lets managers easily set a variety of different email policies within their company from a central point of control.

Disappearing Email is currently in beta at a number of organizations, including the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., and BBM Solutions in Toronto, Canada.

"Just as we routinely shred paper documents, there are some types of electronic documents we want to shred, or expire, on a routine basis," explained Dr. Cynthia Irvine, Director, Center for INFOSEC Studies and Research at the Naval Postgraduate School. "But you can't do that with email-there is always residue on disks and back up tapes. Disappearing Email can increase the discretionary control we have of electronic messages."

"Disappearing Email is almost totally transparent to use. Users don't need to do anything special when they send or receive email, and we don't need to make any changes to our email infrastructure," said Boro Marinkovich, Technology Specialist with BBM Solutions. "It's only when the email disappears that people realize something amazing has happened."

Disappearing Email is being shown this week at the DEMO 2000 conference in Indian Wells, Calif. Demo's executive producer, Chris Shipley, together with her staff, evaluates products from over 1,000 companies each year before selecting the 60 most promising products to unveil at the conference. "With the increasing reliance on email for evidence in legal disputes, the only prudent option for companies without email policy tools has been to avoid discussing sensitive issues via email," Shipley said. "Disappearing Inc.'s unique approach to message confidentiality means companies can now discuss sensitive topics frankly and without fear."

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