SWORD Group to Develop a Document Security Practice in Europe based around Avoco Secure's premier enterprise management solution secure2trust.

• Thursday, 23 March 2006

SWORD Group to Develop a Document Security Practice in Europe based around Avoco Secure’s premier enterprise management solution secure2trust.

SWORD Group, a global leader in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) best practices and services provision today announced the partnership with Avoco Secure, the premier enterprise management solution provider. SWORD will develop a Document Security practice based around the implementation and integration of Avoco Secure’s secure2trust solution, and will resell secure2trust within the European market. The joint combination of Avoco Secure’s Enterprise Rights Management solutions with SWORD Group’s security and ECM implementation experience will benefit customers.

Avoco Secure's secure2trust software adds an additional level of security and control to document content inside and outside the enterprise content repository. secure2trust provides unparalleled access control options including a unique combined authentication feature. As well as flexible restriction options secure2trust also provides document signing, and allows multiple digital signatures to be placed on electronic documents. secure2trust secures document content as it is created - and the content is persistently secured both inside and outside of your organisation creating Secure Information Sharing through the application of Secure and Trusted Rights Management.

"SWORD partner with companies providing the best of breed products and secure2trust is without a doubt such a product,” said Jim Graham, UK Operations Director for SWORD Group, " We're in a great position to help clients understand how best to secure information both inside and outside ECM deployments. The ability to add secure identities and rights management to documents where ever they reside is now an urgent requirement. We have seen significant demand for this form of extended security. Security, flexibility, ease of use and speed of implementation are key requirements for our customers. The peer-to-peer architecture of secure2trust is a key factor in creating secure2trust’s competitive advantage over other Enterprise DRM products in these important areas. The manner in which secure2trust can either be integrated into or easily work with different ECM systems and document repositories will benefit our customers."

"Avoco Secure are pleased to work jointly with the SWORD Group to deliver high quality and robust security solutions to their customers," said Gerry O’Brien, chief executive officer of Avoco Secure. "SWORD is creating a centre of excellence for document security to work with their ECM practices but also deliver independent solutions to the market. Their delivery capabilities and depth of technical expertise will provide the support and resources required to provide Secure and Trusted Rights Management solutions to the Enterprise market.”

About SWORD Group
Founded in December 2000 with 1300 employees as of December 2005, SWORD provides expertise across multiple technologies and industries. This experience, team approach and proven methodologies, together with the motivation and dynamics of the consultants ensure the successful implementation of solutions for the client's requirements. Chairman and founder Jacques Mottard is listed on Euronext Paris NM since March 13, 2002.

For more information about SWORD GROUP visit www.sword-uk.com.

For more information about SWORD’s Avoco Secure link visit www.sword-uk.com/avoco.

About Avoco Secure
Avoco Secure is a software development and distribution company. Our principal areas of focus are security applications providing document security, information rights management and digital rights management and control. Our products are easy to use, transparent to the end user, infinitely scaleable because of their peer to peer architecture and most importantly they are extremely cost effective. A major part of our efforts are directed at developing and supplying software for military, government and major corporate groups where protection of intellectual property is of paramount importance. Avoco Secure has a working relationship with a number of strategic partners and we are providing solutions to the global market both directly and indirectly through partnerships.
http://www.avocosecure.com

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Contacts:
SWORD Group: +44 161 435 6342, gill.crabb@sword-uk.com
Avoco Secure: +44 1929 480806, sandy.porter@avocosecure.com

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Alison Hall
Tel: 07899 986932
Email: alison.hall@alisonhall-pr.co.uk

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