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Advanced Redaction Capabilities form Newest Addition
to ZyIMAGE Legal Product Suite
June 6, 2005 - Vienna, VA - ZyLAB, an innovative
developer of content management and compliance solutions for paper
intensive organizations, today announced that it is offering advanced
redaction as a standard tool in its XML Wrapper Module, a key component
in ZyLAB's ZyIMAGE Legal Product Suite. This product suite already
contains tools for case management, advanced discovery, e-disclosure
and other tools supporting important legal productivity activities.
Redaction is the legal "blacking out" of certain details
in documents (such as names, dates, and addresses) for the purpose
of creating anonymity in evidence. When information is disclosed
to a third party in a legal case or in accordance to guidelines
spelled out in legislation such as the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA), the disclosing party is allowed to, under strict rules,
redact certain information not relevant to the context in which
the information is being evaluated (such as names of employees,
witnesses, or other confidential information). Redaction is often
an intensive manual process, usually done by hand with black markers,
which means it is expensive and is prone to errors.
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% 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
With ZyLAB's redaction solutions, 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, several UK and USA law-enforcement and government
officials, and ZyLAB partners operating in highly specialized legal
services sectors.
With the addition of this secure redaction capability as a component
of the advanced and scaleable ZyIMAGE Legal Solutions, ZyLAB's continues
its aggressive positioning as the preferred solution provider for
the most relevant legal productivity tools at the most affordable
prices.
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 over 7,500 installations worldwide and over 350,000 users, ZyLAB
has a wide breadth of experience and knowledge across a variety of
different industries and business applications. Our clients include
such U.S. Government organizations as the FBI, Department of Homeland
Security, Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, SEC,
Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, IRS, Department
of Labor, State Department, Amtrak's OIG, Office of Personnel Management,
Department of Defense and all branches of the US military, as well
as such well-known companies as the New York Stock Exchange, Pepsico,
Pacific Life, and Anheuser-Busch. For more information visit: www.zylab.com - e-discovery and records management.
Media Contact:
Evan Weisel
Welz & Weisel Communications
P: 703-323-6006
evan@w2comm.com
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