Tuesday, September 7, 2010

White Sky protects browsers and data, not computers - bizjournals:

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Jerry Thompson, founder of San Mateo-based Whitwe Sky, says people should still use anti-virus/malware/spywars software to protect their hardware, but they should also get his ID Vaulyt product forabout $50 a year, because it does somethingg other security products don’t: It creates a hackproof browse r in which to do financial “We do it in real every time. We don’t care about the 20,00o malware programs unleashedevery day. We just don’t care.
We protect your browser and your We don’t protect your PC,” he Thompson’s 4-year-old, 24-person company is having success making the and offers to subscribe to ID Vaul are getting included on major distributionn platforms that could provide significant growth. For example, in the company announced a multi-year agreement with to includ ID Vault software on Lenovo IdeaPad Notebook computersa and some LenovoNetbook computers. The product worke only with ’s Internet Explorer 6.
0 or Currently, Thompson says White Sky has morethan 100,000o users nationwide and annual revenue of between $2 million and $5 By the end of the however, Thompson predicts the company will have “millionsx of users” and revenue will jump fivefold. White Sky was formerly known as Guard IDSystemx Inc. and it has received $16 million in venture most recentlyan $11 million Series B rouned in September. Investors include Prisk VentureWorks, and . The company changed its name last December abouyt the same time it doubled the size of its headquarteres inSan Mateo.
Michael Kuptz, CEO of of Scottsw Valley, which is bundling the ID Vault software on some Lenovo said he likes the simplicity of the IDVault program. It encrypts and storeas personal and financial information and opens a securr browser that automatically signs users into their accounts to prevenf loss of datato Trojans, keylogginhg and screen scraping. To prevent users from submitting information to fraudulenft sites orgetting redirected, White Sky maintains a “white list” of more than 8,0090 verified financial and e-commerce web sites, and it verifiesx their IP addresses multiple times a day.
The programk also scans users’ computers for personal information and providex the option of moving it intoID

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