GigaTrust and Arabic Computer Systems Enter into Strategic Partnership

Arabic Computer Systems to support GigaTrust solutions in Saudi Arabia

HERNDON, VA. October 3, 2007 — GigaTrust (also known as GigaMedia Access Corporation), the Intelligent Rights Management™ products and services company for corporate e-mail and content security, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Arabic Computer Systems (ACS) Ltd. to have ACS resell and support GigaTrust products and services in Saudi Arabia.

Both GigaTrust and ACS focus on the enterprise, with GigaTrust providing software for companies that want to build and manage a Microsoft Rights Management Services (RMS) deployment. GigaTrust helps its customers take RMS beyond the enterprise network by offering solutions that enable a secure content supply chain collaboration all the way to – and onto – the BlackBerry.

"ACS is a premier IT systems integration and solutions company, and we are pleased to partner with them to deploy and manage GigaTrust's enterprise solution in Saudi Arabia," according to David Kesick, GigaTrust's vice president of international corporate development. "We have the utmost respect for them and their abilities and believe this is a strategic move for GigaTrust to expand our solutions beyond North America."

According to Ibrahim H. Al-Zeer, Managing Director of National Technology Group (NTG) ACS parent company, the partnership with GigaTrust offers ACS the opportunity to expand its solutions for customers in Saudi Arabia. "We are always ready and willing to partner with trustworthy solutions providers which will help us expand our offerings to our customers here,” Al-Zeer said. "This new partnership is good for ACS and for our customers.”

About GigaTrust
Headquartered in Herndon, Va., and with regional offices throughout the United States, GigaTrust is a cutting-edge provider of email and content security software products and services. GigaTrust is the only provider of the Intelligent Rights Management™ solution, which combines innovative, next-generation content security technologies built on the foundation of Microsoft's Rights Management Services (RMS). GigaTrust's Intelligent Rights Management solution enables secure anyone-to-anyone collaboration by persistently protecting content (at rest, in transit, or in use). GigaTrust's family of products/services are easy to use, easy to deploy, and completely transparent to the author or recipient of the email or content. GigaTrust's products/services include security solutions for email and document protection, automated external user provisioning, web content, network file shares, e-discovery enablement, content classification, and the BlackBerry mobile device. For more information about GigaTrust, visit www.gigatrust.com.

About Arabic Computer Systems
Arabic Computer Systems (ACS) Ltd. is Saudi Arabia's leading Information Technology Company, successfully serving the technology needs of the top enterprises in Saudi Arabia for the past two decades. Founded in 1984 by Mohammed Rasheed Al-Ballaa, ACS chairman and managing director, ACS now is ranked 39th among the top 100 companies in Saudi Arabia. ACS offers a wide range of cross-industry products, applications and services to meet the majority IT infrastructure needs of its customers. Its strength and value is truly derived from the 1500+ ACS professionals whose systems integration expertise of being able to stitch these different pieces of technologies together to form a solution solves most of their customers' problems. ACS is a part of the National Technology Group (NTG) of Companies, a Multi-National Technology group with a presence in the Middle-East, India, Sri Lanka and the USA.

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