LONDON, July 16 /PRNewswire/ --

- Educational Service Uses Avoco's Secure2trust and Secure2email
to Protect Student Academic Forms From Cyber-Predators and Other Threats

The Christian Center for Learning Development is an
educational service based in North Carolina, USA, specialising in the
development of student inquiry skills though a program of strong mentoring.
The center requires the use of academic forms which contain specific and
personal details of students. The center has an obligation to guarantee the
confidentiality of these forms as they contain student authored material and
personal information.

An increasing threat to this type of information is in the
form of cyber-predators, who commonly target the age group serviced by the
center (The local school system removed all student photographs and personal
information from their website because of the threat of cyber-predators) :
The center not only needed a solution that would protect this information
during creation, but also during the review and finalisation process which
involves emailing the form between mentor and student. The solution they
required to perform these actions needed to be able to offer:

Ability to collaborate securely on documents between external
     parties and the center

     Option to use a number of different types of authentication
     as required to control access to documents and emails

     Flexibility to change the protection during the review
     process as appropriate to the workflow stage

     Securing the email as well as the document attachment



The market was researched for a product that would offer all
of these benefits and it was decided after evaluation, to implement Avoco
Secure's secure2trust and secure2email document and email security solutions,
to provide easy to use, low cost, effective security, for student academic
forms.

Wolf Beerel, President & CEO of CCFLD: "Avoco has provided us
with a fantastic way to apply the most appropriate mode of authentication and
rights management to our sensitive e-mails and documents. Our clients, mostly
parents of young adolescents, are very much concerned with digital security
involving their children's work and personal information. Secure2trust/e-mail
has added a significant value to their experience of our service. As Avoco
products are so universally compatible with other software, we look forward
to maintaining their employment as we develop and differentiate our document
management."

The process of creation and completion of these documents
required that a different type of protection be applied to the use of the
content at different stages of the review process. For example, during the
process of review with mentors, the document can be edited but copying and
printing of the content is not allowed: Once the document is complete it is
then set as read only and emailed out to parents and teachers using
secure2email to secure the email itself, for final agreement.

It is also a vital requirement of the system that the
documents remain in the same format as they were authored so that
collaboration and review can be as natural as possible.

Access to documents and emails is controlled using different
types of authentication, taking advantage of the flexibility of supported
access control methods in the Avoco Secure products. The center will select
the most appropriate controls such as strong passwords and digital
certificates for external third parties, and active directory for mentors, or
possibly a combination of more than one of these options.

About Avoco Secure

Avoco Secure is an innovation company whose areas of focus are security,
information assurance and privacy applications which enable End-to-End Trust.
Avoco Secure products use an individuals (or groups) identity, other forms of
authentication and policies, to apply controls to content access and use, or
to digitally sign that content. It does this by encrypting the content,
authenticating the users and controlling what they can do with that content.
Resulting in paper workflows becoming electronic which saves time, money and
meets green and compliance requirements.

Avoco Secure develops software and solutions for military, government,
major corporate groups and individuals where protection of intellectual
property is of paramount importance.

http://www.avocosecure.com