GigaTrust Names Harry J. Piccariello to CMO Post

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

HERNDON, VA. March 19, 2007— GigaTrust (also known as GigaMedia Access Corporation), the leader in the emerging Content Security and Rights Management Services (RMS) market, announced the appointment of Harry Piccariello, renowned digital rights management pioneer, as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). In this position, Mr. Piccariello has dual responsibilities for product development and traditional marketing functions including brand development and marketing communications.

"Harry brings a remarkable range of knowledge in several areas that are important to GigaTrust's growth and success. Key among these is his outstanding knowledge of rights management issues,” said Bob Bernardi, GigaTrust Chairman and CEO. "His leadership skills and past experience will be an outstanding addition to our management team. I'm looking to Harry to develop our ‘go-to-market' strategy that will significantly impact our bottom line and help meet our corporate goals for financial growth. I also look to his know-how to ensure that our products are in line with our customers' requirements and expectations.”

"I'm delighted to join GigaTrust and to be part of its talented staff of professionals. This is an exciting opportunity and time and I look forward to building brand awareness for our unique and mature product set for the Enterprise Rights Management industry,” said Mr. Piccariello.

Mr. Piccariello's career as an information technologist spans 25 years of progressive and multifaceted experience in several areas including: software products; application services; patents; international standards and specifications; and management consulting services supporting diverse international public and private organizations. He served in executive positions at Cloakware, Inc. a software protection and anti-tamper company, and ContentGuard, Inc., a company focused on creating the worldwide standard Digital Rights Expression Language which was acquired by Microsoft, Time Warner and Thomson.

Mr. Piccariello holds an MBA from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. He completed a post graduate International Relations Residency at Oxford University, Oxford, England.

Internationally recognized pioneer in the field of digital rights management (DRM), Mr. Piccariello has been involved and worked with leading vendors and standards-setting organizations such as ISO, IEEE and OMA (formerly the WAP Forum) for the last eleven years. He has spoken or appeared as a panelist at numerous international conferences and has authored several articles on DRM within the education, multimedia, and mobile community.

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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