Law Firms Worldwide Rely on Tumbleweed WorldSecure™
Tumbleweed IME provides a secure communications channel
REDWOOD CITY, CA - March 29, 2000 - Tumbleweed Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: TMWD) today announced that that more than 50 leading law firms worldwide have chosen Tumbleweed WorldSecureT to secure and manage their business communications on the Internet.
Christian & Barton, LLP of Richmond, Virginia; Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer LLP of Sacramento, CA; Fulbright & Jaworski LLP of Houston, Texas; Gardere & Wynne, LLP of Dallas, Texas; Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP of San Francisco, California; Irell & Manella LLP of Los Angeles, California; Robinson & Cole LLP of Hartford, Connecticut; Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul LLP of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Sills Cummis Radin Tischman Epstein and Gross, P.A. of Newark, New Jersey; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP of New York, New York; and Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts of New York, New York have all chosen Tumbleweed WorldSecure to apply the principles of communications management they use for paper documents to documents that are transmitted online.
Tumbleweed WorldSecure enables these law firms to set and enforce policies regarding security, distribution, monitoring and archiving of email. It also enables them to establish a secure communications channel through which they can send confidential documents to their clients and colleagues. "Tumbleweed WorldSecure allows us to centrally manage email security policies," said Michael Libby, IS Director, Downey, Brand, Seymour and Rohwer. "The solution is transparent to our attorneys, enabling them to correspond seamlessly with clients via Internet email, confident in the knowledge that their communications are protected."
"More and more often, our clients were asking for the tools to communicate securely with us over email," said David Golden, Applications Manager, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP. "WorldSecure's remarkable simplicity and ease-of-use allows us to centrally define policies for Internet email usage, including virus protection, SPAM prevention and content filtering, and to administer server-based S/MIME encryption without overly taxing vital IT resources. We believe that our adoption of WorldSecure enables us to provide our clients with an added level of reassurance in the confidentiality of their email exchanges."
"With more and more of our correspondence with clients moving online, we clearly required the means to protect and manage our email communications," said Rick Lazev, messaging coordinator, Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher and Flom LLP. "Tumbleweed WorldSecure offers us the capabilities we require to conduct business online, and surpasses the management capabilities we had when we communicated exclusively via paper."
"Each of these law firms has had the insight to realize that email is surpassing telephone and fax as the means of communicating with their clients, and each of them has moved proactively to manage that shift" said Jeffrey C. Smith, president and CEO, Tumbleweed Communications Corp. "Tumbleweed WorldSecure brings the benefits of online communication and electronic monitoring to this vital, growing communications channel."
About Salomon Smith Barney
Salomon Smith Barney's Corporate Client Group offers technologically advanced benefits packages for large and small, private and public corporations. We administer a comprehensive selection of employee benefit programs including stock plans, retirement plans, and non-qualified deferred compensation plans, in addition to other corporate services including support for officers and directors and cash management. All of the benefit programs are available online through Benefit ACCESSsm, an award-winning suite of integrated Internet applications that allows employees to manage their financial benefits on one user-friendly web site. The Corporate Client Group provides online services to over 600,000 employees at over 1,500 companies including Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Motorola and Lucent Technologies. Additional information can be found at www.corporateclientgroup.com.
Salomon Smith Barney is part of Citigroup's Global Corporate and Investment Bank, which brings together Citibank, the world's most global corporate bank, and Salomon Smith Barney, a leading global investment bank and securities brokerage firm. Together they provide complete financial solutions to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals in 100 countries. Award-winning businesses include corporate and investment banking services, investment advice, financial planning and commercial insurance products. Salomon Smith Barney's 11,700 Financial Consultants, located in approximately 492 offices across the United States, service over 7.1 million client accounts representing more than $1 trillion in client assets.
Citigroup (NYSE:C), the most global financial services company, provides some 100 million consumers, corporations, governments and institutions in 100 countries with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, insurance, securities brokerage and asset management. The 1998 merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group brought together such brand names as Citibank, Travelers, Salomon Smith Barney, Commercial Credit (now named CitiFinancial), and Primerica under Citigroup's trademark red umbrella. Additional information may be found at: www.Citigroup.com.
About Tumbleweed Communications Corp.
Tumbleweed is a leading provider of solutions for managing secure communication and collaboration to enable the business Internet. Tumbleweed's robust policy-based framework empowers organizations to safely share and protect critical information, increase customer loyalty and privacy and dramatically reduce costs. Tumbleweed is trusted by 1,000 blue-chip customers including American Express, Chevron, Datek Online, the European Union's Joint Research Council, First Union Wachovia, John Deere, Merrill Lynch, Nike, Northern Trust, NTT, Salomon Smith Barney, Travelers and US Food and Drug Administration. One hundred of the Fortune 500 are Tumbleweed customers. Tumbleweed Communications was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices around the world.
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to the security features of Tumbleweed's products and the activities of any third party. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and similar expressions. For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed's Form 10-K filed March 30, 2001 and Form 10-Q filed November 13, 2001. Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release.
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