Today with great excitement we announced our acquisition of Armor5, cloud-based provider of zero touch, secure cloud access for all devices. Armor5 has built up tremendous momentum in the cloud and mobile security space since its 2012 founding by former Adobe, Motorola, and Yahoo executives. The company has gained recognition as a 2014 Gartner Cool Vendor in Application and Endpoint Security as well as a 2013 Network World 10 Hot Security Startups to Watch.

The acquisition of Armor5’s solution accelerates our vision of total data protection across all devices, networks, and users. Integrating Armor5 into the Digital Guardian Management Console extends Digital Guardian’s data protection capabilities to cloud applications and mobiles devices. The Armor5 Zero Touch approach requires no installs or configuration on the device or DMZ, operates without a performance deficit, and leaves no data on mobile devices.

We’re all thrilled at the potential of this acquisition, and our CEO Ken Levine is sharing his excitement in today’s announcement:

“…Enterprises are rapidly deploying cloud solutions and storing some of their most sensitive data there. While companies have been quick to adopt these technologies, the investment in security for these solutions is lacking. Our vision lets companies deploy consistent data protection policies from a single platform that persist across all devices and locations. The Armor5 acquisition gets us closer to making this vision a reality.” – Ken Levine, president and chief executive officer, Digital Guardian.

ESG senior principal analyst and 2014 Security Change Agent contributor Jon Oltsik also weighed in on the acquisition as well as the current need for integrated cloud security:

“Enterprise organizations want cloud flexibility and mobility but not at the expense of increased risk to sensitive data. Yes, you can manage data security through cloud-based services, but CISOs really want to extend their existing data security controls to the cloud rather than add an incremental layer of data security controls and operations overhead. With its acquisition of Armor5, Digital Guardian becomes a one-stop-shop for bridging internal IT and cloud-based data security controls and operations. This is the exact combination that enterprises are looking for.”



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