Founded in 2012, the company says it has protected more than 1 billion data assets to date.Ĭustomers include Verizon, Netflix, the state of Maryland, Brown University, EmblemHealth, SoFi, and Redfin. Virtru reports it has more than 7,000 customers, and that its platform secures roughly 2 million emails and files every day. “There’s a lot of work over 10 years that went into making that really, really easy.” Customer traction The Virtru platform works entirely behind the scenes, and has “taken out all the extra steps usually involved with getting access to secure content,” he said. Formerly a cloud security architect for the NSA, Will Ackerly created TDF to secure data sharing between intelligence agencies.Īnother key issue that Virtru addresses is making access to secure data a “seamless” experience for end users, John Ackerly said. Underpinning the product is an open standard for data protection - the Trusted Data Format (TDF) - which was actually invented by Will Ackerly, chief technology officer and cofounder of Virtru (and brother of John Ackerly). “As data gets moved between these systems, every time that it does, it is left insecure,” Ackerly said.īut, he said, there’s a good reason that others haven’t adequately solved the issue: it’s extremely difficult. Integrations include Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Zendesk, and more than 100 SaaS applications in total.
Virtru’s product encrypts data as it’s moved or shared using email applications, file-sharing platforms, software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps, and cloud environments. “There’s a big opportunity right now to really be a vital part of an overall zero trust architecture.” Encryption In the cyber industry, “there’s a data challenge that no one’s addressing well - except for Virtru,” he said in an interview.
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