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 dont need to trust other peoples content and code running on their machines, and content providers dont 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 PCs already have 'Remote Desktop software installed, which may be used to receive D-Days 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 This means documents can be easily updated or rescinded.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, theres no need to create a 'police state on every end-users 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 cant be stolen from missing end user machines, since the content doesnt have to be ever stored there.

I should say theres 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-Days 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 Microsofts 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 its displayed."

Therefore not even Mr. Wilson advocates D-Day as a silver bullet. Rather, its 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-Days 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 Trust.

Contact:

Eric Wilson

press@docblaster.com

+61 4 2920 0001

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