GigaTrust Names Brad Gandee VP Product Marketing and Management

Digital Rights Management Expert to Focus on Matching Customer Needs with Product Development

HERNDON, VA. March 26, 2007— GigaTrust (also known as GigaMedia Access Corporation), the leader in the emerging Enterprise Rights Management (ERM) market, announced the appointment of Brad Gandee as Vice President of Product Marketing and Management. Mr. Gandee is responsible for product positioning as well as strategy for product development and reports to Harry Piccariello, Chief Marketing Officer.

"Brad's experience in both content security and digital rights management bring an added expertise in these important areas to the company,” said Mr. Piccariello. "He participated early-on in the formation of our industry and has a firm grasp of the issues. Having worked with Brad for many years, I am confident he will help us grow the business and expand our footprint in the markets we serve by providing solutions that chase customer needs and lead the industry. We welcome Brad to our management team.”

"I am looking forward to being a part of GigaTrust's talented staff. I see this as a great opportunity to build upon our product set and bring more visibility in the market for our enterprise and email security products and services. The GigaTrust suite of products are invaluable as organizations work to comply with regulatory drivers like SOX and HIPPA, to protect sensitive or private customer data or to enforce policies to safeguard corporate intellectual property. I see this as a very exciting time for both GigaTrust and the emerging ERM industry,” said Mr. Gandee.

Mr. Gandee brings more than 10 years experience in digital media and data security and protection technologies. His background includes expertise in business strategy, market research, market development and product management. Most recently, he was the technical evangelist for ContentGuard, a leading DRM technology development company where he was responsible for the Company's strategy in the standards arena. He served on the Boards of Directors of the Internet Streaming Media Alliance and the MPEG Industry Forum. He also played a pivotal role in the development of XrML, eXtensible rights Management Markup Language, which is the baseline technology for the Rights Management Services platform from Microsoft. Prior to joining ContentGuard, Mr. Gandee was President of a start-up, DeskGate Technologies, with proprietary technology for packaging, distribution and tracking of digital content.

Mr. Gandee holds an MBA from the Wharton School, and a BA, from the University of Pennsylvania.

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.

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