Echoworx
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Email Encryption, Data Encryption |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Toronto; London, Atlanta |
| Key people | Michael Ginsberg- CEO and President |
| Website | www.echoworx.com |
Echoworx, founded in 2000, is based in Toronto, Canada with offices in Atlanta and London. [1] Provides email encryption and data encryption with all data encrypted using industry trusted standard PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) and S/MIME technologies for strong encryption and digital signatures, relying on standard X.509 certificates. [2] [3] Michael Ginsberg serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of Echoworx Corporation. [4]
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[edit] History
AT&T was one of the first telecommunications companies in the United States to white-label and provide Echoworx encryption services to its subscribers in December 2005. [5]
Sun Microsystems introduced an e-mail security service that enables Internet service providers to offer e-mail encryption to their subscribers. Sun Microsystems teamed with Lucent Technologies and Echoworx to offer the subscription service called Sun Secure Mail. [6] Verizon Communications, a Dow 30 company, delivers broadband and other communication to wireline and wireless customers, launched encrypted email products in December 2005. [7] [8] Tiscali, one of Europe's largest independent telecommunication companies was the first service provider in Europe to launch their email privacy product called Tiscali Secure Mail with the Echoworx platform in January 2007. [9]
British Telecom is a leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. [10] British Telecom launched BT Secure Mail and Encrypted Message Exchange (BT EMX) based on public key infrastructure (PKI) in October 2007. [11]
MessageLabs, a provider of integrated messaging and web security services, launched Echoworx policy based encryption [12] and was later acquired by Symantec in October 2008. [13]
Apptix is an Application Service Provider (ASP) technology company providing hosted business services (or Software as a service)) for small and medium-sized businesses. They provide Apptix Secure Mail powered by Echoworx as part of their Hosted Email Security Services portfolio. They launched the service in April 2010. [14]
McAfee is a computer security company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. They provide McAfee SaaS Email Encryption powered by Echoworx email encryption technology through their McAfee SaaS division (formerly MxLogic). On July 30, 2009, McAfee announced plans to acquire managed email and web security vendor MX Logic. [15] The acquisition provided an enhanced range of SaaS-based security services such as cloud-based intelligence, web security, email security, endpoint security and vulnerability assessment. The deal closed on September 1, 2009 at a price of $140 million. [16] MX Logic staff has been integrated into McAfee’s SaaS business unit. McAfee has been offering SaaS Email encryption service since May 2010. [17]
The company's original priority was the small business market, but has evolved to the enterprise and corporate market.
[edit] References
- ^ Echoworx Corporate Offices
- ^ Osterman Research whitepaper regarding email encryption (.pdf)
- ^ Policy Based Encryption
- ^ Businessweek Company Profile
- ^ AT&T
- ^ Sun Secure Mail
- ^ Verizon Encrypted Email
- ^ Eweek Article
- ^ Tiscali
- ^ British Telecom
- ^ Zdnet News- BT launch secure mail
- ^ MessageLabs
- ^ Symantec acquires MessageLabs
- ^ Apptix partners with Echoworx
- ^ McAfee acquires MXLogic
- ^ McAfee Completes Acquisition
- ^ McAfee Saas Encryption
