Guardtime announced today that Mr. Gustav Poola has joined the company as Vice President of Products.

Palo Alto, CA (USA), Tuesday – June 05, 2012 — Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) announced today that Mr. Gustav Poola has joined the company as Vice President of Products. Poola brings to Guardtime a robust track record of performance and innovation based on more than 20 years of hardware design and managerial experience.

“Guardtime Keyless Signature technology represents a breakthrough in data validation for the enterprise, cloud, and telecommunications industries. I look forward to contributing to its widespread adoption, growth, and success,” Poola said.

For 12 years, Poola served as CEO of Artec Group, a leading provider of electrical engineering services with customers including STMicroelectronics and National Semiconductor. Under Poola’s management, Artec Group grew to over 70 employees and engineered many successful products such as the Geode SoC-based ThinCan product line, a reference design that revolutionized thin-computing in 2006. Prior to Artec, Poola worked for ZF Micro Solutions, Fujitsu, and Cabelco Technologies.

“I’m very pleased to welcome Gustav to the team,” said Guardtime CEO Mike Gault. “Guardtime’s technology is playing a critical role in providing independent validation of data and virtual machines in a cloud environment. Cloud computing is in its infancy, and aside from his general track record in creating successful products, we hope to leverage Gustav’s experience in appliance design to extend our scope deep into the hardware level.”

Guardtime’s patented Keyless Signature technology ( http://www.guardtime.com ) provides irrefutable proof of integrity for data stored on disk, residing in the Cloud, or in transit across networks. Keyless Signature-based solutions are being adopted by governments, telecommunications service providers, and cloud infrastructure vendors around the globe in order to enhance transparency and provide stakeholders an independent and irrefutable method of proving that the implemented data security measures are working properly.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime’s mission is to change the world to one in which Keyless Signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the Cloud. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing your data.

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“Data Integrity in the Big Data Digital Age” gives data its proof in court.

San Francisco, CA (USA), Wednesday – April 18th, 2012 — A new executive brief published by IDC examines one of the major obstacles organizations face when committing resources and applications to cloud computing. At stake is the issue of validating the integrity and authenticity of data within a cloud environment.

“When the data is hosted onsite, this process of data integrity can certainly be a challenge. However, when data is not hosted within the traditional internal IT data center environment, there needs to be a method of ensuring indisputable data integrity,” cites the report.

Titled “Data Integrity in the Big Data Digital Age”, the research paper ties the current Big Data phenomenon with cloud computing, making a case for how organizations must grapple with analyzing and basing decisions on petabytes of unstructured data, yet rarely questioning the authenticity of this data.

Questions the report seeks to answer include: Has my data been tampered with? Is the data source legitimate? How can indisputable proof be offered that data integrity remains intact? And in cases that involve the legal system, how to bring documents, log files, or audio files to the level where they can be admitted as irrefutable evidence?

These questions take the data integrity argument well beyond the premise and perimeter of IT security matters. Few options exist today that can achieve tamper-proof data security outside of the reliance on third-party certification authorities, or the unwieldy management of a public key infrastructure. What’s required is a way to validate, verify, and self-authenticate the data independently of any third-party agency.

Sponsored by GuardTime, the executive brief details a compelling case for the adoption of Keyless Signatures, explaining how the mathematically-driven system works. The Keyless Signature technology is used to provide indisputable proof of time, origin, and integrity for electronic data.

“The goal of the keyless signature technology is to provide mass-scale, non-expiring data validation while eliminating the need for secrets or other forms of trust, thereby reducing or even eliminating the need for more complex certificate-based solutions, as these are ripe with certificate management issues, including expiration and revocation,” the paper explains.

“A keyless signature provides an alternative method to key-based technologies by providing proof and non-repudiation of electronic data using only hash functions for verification. The implementation of keyless signature is done via a globally distributed machine, taking hash values of data as inputs and returning keyless signatures that prove the time, integrity, and origin (machine, organization, individual) of the input data.”

“Any client using the keyless signature service can make a request to sign any data item it has access to; a log file, XML file, office document, database record, SWIFT transaction, FPML message, eDiscovery productions, etc. In return, the client will receive a keyless signature which can be stored along side the signed data, within the signed data, or in a repository separate from the signed data for backup and archival purposes.”

By signing the data using GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures ( http://www.guardtime.com ), an organization can automatically detect when and where the data was created or transferred, and if the data has been tampered with or not. An alert is sent to the customer when an abnormal status is detected.

In this manner, organizations can assure the integrity of data and confirm the location where data exists, providing a full audit trail of data usage and storage in the Cloud.

The report concludes with “The keyless nature of this technology helps reduce the footprint by removing the need for cipher keys and passwords, which arguably can also be lost or mislaid, and since the integrity can be validated by the document owners, the ability to leverage the cloud computing platform places it well for future adoption.”

The full report can be found here: http://www.guardtime.com/whitepapers

About GuardTime:
GuardTime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit of the data has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signatures can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. GuardTime’s mission is to change the world to one in which Keyless Signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the Cloud. The company was recently selected as co-winner of the Innotribe $100K Start-Up Challenge, honoring the company as one of the world’s most promising financial technology start-ups. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing your data.

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MediaPR.net Inc
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http://www.guardtime.com

GuardTime today signed an agreement with Beijing-based RDG China, Read Digital Science & Technology Co., Ltd., to collaborate in the area of digital rights management.

Beijing, China, Monday – April 02, 2012 — GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), creator of the Keyless Signature technology providing indisputable proof of time, origin, and integrity for electronic data, today signed an agreement with Beijing-based RDG China, Read Digital Science & Technology Co., Ltd. ( http://www.chinardg.com ), an application development firm offering products, solutions and services for the Chinese publishing industry, to collaborate in the area of digital rights management.

“We are excited to use GuardTime Keyless Signature technology in our large scale content signing for digital rights management. We have being searching for data signature solutions that should be scalable, cost effective, easy to integrate yet without an expiration date, for the Chinese publishing industry. Fortunately, we found GuardTime,” said Sarah Wang, CEO of RDG China. “With advanced technology provider GuardTime, we will strive to create digital publishing solutions that will help the Chinese publishing industry enhance their digital publishing capabilities quickly.”

With sizable research projects lined up for its central and provincial publishing regulation offices, RDG China is starting to push for a cloud-based system involving regulating offices, publishers, web sites, mobile phone SP and other digital content distribution channels with digital rights management as a core offering. This project can potentially bring a revolution to copyright protections in China and become a standard in the Chinese publishing industry.

GuardTime Keyless Signatures ( http://www.guardtime.com ) will be a key technology in this project.

About Read Digital Science & Technology Co., Ltd.:
RDG China is a large-scale application development firm, providing products, solutions and information technology professional services mainly for Chinese publishing industry. The company is headquartered in Beijing, with branch offices overseas. The company is committed for the publication and distribution, government, large corporations and industry customers to provide in-depth and long-term consulting, customized development and system integration services. For more information visit http://www.chinardg.com/en/pl.jsp

About GuardTime:
GuardTime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. GuardTime’s mission is to change the world to one in which Keyless Signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the Cloud. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing your data.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Beijing, China
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

GuardTime today signed an agreement with Tokyo-based NRI SecureTechnologies, Ltd., a one stop-solution provider for information security, to do business collaboration in the area of cloud computing security.

Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday – January 03, 2012 — GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), creator of the Keyless Signature technology used to provide indisputable proof of time, origin, and integrity for electronic data, today signed an agreement with Tokyo-based NRI SecureTechnologies, Ltd., a one stop-solution provider for information security, to do business collaboration in the area of cloud computing security.

GuardTime developed and provides the solution code-named “DataConductor,” which can detect changes and/or transfers of any data stored in the datacenter. By signing the data using GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures, DataConductor can automatically detect when and where the data was created or transferred, and if the datahas been tampered with or not. An alert is sent to the customer when an abnormal status is detected. DataConductor can assure the integrity of data and confirm the location where data exists, providing a full audit trail of data storage in the Cloud. DataConductor enables regulatory compliance for archiving with commodity cloud storage.

As a leading provider of information security, NRI Secure has accumulated extensive and profound consulting knowledge with product offerings that, together with one-stop services, provide comprehensive security solutions to customers in sectors such as the government, financial services, retail, and enterprises. In particular, as cloud computing demand grows, NRI Secure is increasingly undertaking a number of projects for the secure building and management of cloud services.

GuardTime and NRI Secure will leverage the solutions and know-how on both sides to collaborate in the following areas:

* Solution service integration:
Planning and development on the integration of GuardTime DataConductor into NRI Secure’s security management solutions and services.

* Joint marketing and sales activities:
Both companies will jointly hold seminars and conferences to introduce the solutions.Both companies will jointly identify business opportunities and propose solutions to existing and new customers.

About NRI SecureTechnologies, Ltd:
NRI SecureTechnologies, a leading provider of information security solutions, is one of the group companies of Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. Established in 2000, it examines information security at business corporations from the aspects of technology and business management and offers a one-stop service from consulting to solution implementation, training, management and surveillance. For more information visit http://www.nri-secure.co.jp/en/index.html

About GuardTime:
GuardTime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit of the data has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signatures can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. GuardTime’s mission is to change the world to one where Keyless Signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the Cloud. The company was recently selected as co-winner of the Innotribe $100K Start-Up Challenge, honoring the company as one of the world’s most promising financial technology start-ups. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing your data.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Tokyo, Japan
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com