Trusted Edge and Compliance Solutions Group Team to Deliver Retention Management Solutions; Solutions Will Enforce Compliance and Reduce Legal Discovery Costs.

WASHINGTON -- Trusted Edge, Inc., a leading provider of retention management and compliance software, and Compliance Solutions Group (CSG), a recognized leader in delivering electronic document and records management (EDRM) solutions for Microsoft customers, will collaborate on delivering retention management applications for the financial services, health care, manufacturing, and public sector markets. The RM Edge(TM) system from Trusted Edge enables companies to use policy-based enforcement to capture, archive, and digitally shred any document on any desktop.

Trusted Edge and CSG, using Microsoft's rights management software (RMS), will provide compliance solutions that give companies complete control over all digital information assets on the desktop. Trusted Edge and CSG will provide immediate solutions and support to companies struggling to satisfy regulatory, legal and enterprise content management compliance requirements.

This joint solution will extend records management systems to automatically capture and dispose of information that is created and stored on user desktops and other devices. Today, companies rely on employee discretion to implement their records retention processes. Using solutions from Trusted Edge and CSG, enterprise records managers can electronically enforce retention policies and virtually eliminate employee error.

"By adopting these extended management capabilities, companies will, for the first time, be able to enforce retention policies at the desktop. As a result, they will also more effectively comply with regulatory requirements. And finally, they will establish a defensible audit trail for both their policies of electronic document retention as well as disposal," said Michael Beck, CEO of Trusted Edge.

Using solutions from Trusted Edge and CSG, CFOs, compliance officers and auditors can reap the benefits of comprehensive visibility into and enforced compliance of regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, DoD 5015.2-STD and other critical mandates.

"The ability to enforce the capture and the central storage of all ...