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Vormetric Provides Data Security For Nexidia’s Hosted Speech Analytics Operation

March 10, 2011

Solution Provides High‐Performance Encryption for Nexidia OnDemand Platform

SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 9, 2011 – Vormetric, Inc., the leader in enterprise system encryption, today announced that Nexidia, the market‐leading provider of audio search and speech analytics solutions, has selected Vormetric Data Security to provide encryption, access control and key management to meet regulatory compliance requirements for PCI DSS, HIPAA and other mandates that govern its OnDemand hosted solution.

Nexidia pioneered the delivery of speech analytics through a hosted, Software‐as‐a‐Service (Saas) model. The Nexidia OnDemand platform provides contact centers access to the full set of features in its Enterprise Speech Intelligence product suite (ESI), including automatic topic discovery, detailed call categorization and reporting, and agent performance management. Since inception, the Nexidia OnDemand hosted platform has grown significantly and now processes more than 150,000 hours of audio per day for large contact centers and outsourcers. Nexidia selected Vormetric to provide data security for this large volume of audio files and to help comply with customer security requirements.

“Our hosted solution continuously reads and writes large audio files, and we are required to meet strict service level agreements,” said Ethan Zweigel, vice president of IT security for Nexidia. “The Vormetric solution seamlessly integrates with our existing systems, working in the background to secure our customers’ data and remain transparent to end‐users. Vormetric’s performance has had no discernable impact on our response times.”

After a comprehensive evaluation of competing encryption products, Nexidia selected Vormetric Data Security to protect millions of files accessed by Nexidia ESI running on high performance servers. Nexidia chose Vormetric for its ability to centralize and simplify key management, enforce policy, impose virtually no impact on application performance, and be extremely low maintenance.

“Vormetric has gained a reputation for transparently protecting transaction intensive environments like Nexidia OnDemand, without any discernible impact on performance,” said Richard Gorman, president and CEO of Vormetric. “Vormetric is pleased to be working with Software as a Service providers like Nexidia to protect their customers’ data at the source, while helping them to comply with the myriad of regulatory mandates that govern so many industries today.”

About Nexidia

Nexidia is the audio and video search company with patented technologies and breakthrough applications that enable customers to quickly gain new insight, build competitive advantage and realize the amazing possibilities now discoverable in audio and video content from contact centers, media outlets, government intelligence and legal discovery. For more information, please visit nexidia.com.

About Vormetric

Vormetric is the leader in enterprise system encryption. The Vormetric Data Security product line provides a single, manageable and scalable solution to encrypt any file, any database, any application, anywhere it resides – physical, virtual and cloud. Vormetric achieves strong encryption without sacrificing application performance or creating key management complexity. The most security conscious organizations and government agencies in the world, including 7 of the Fortune 10, have standardized on Vormetric to provide strong, easily manageable data security. For more information visit, www.vormetric.com.

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