Data integrity service provider GuardTime today announced that Benchmark Solutions will use GuardTime Keyless Signatures to protect its intellectual property (IP), and confidential documents.

New York, NY (USA), Tuesday – December 20, 2011 — Data integrity service provider GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) today announced that Benchmark Solutions ( http://www.benchmarksolutions.com ), a financial services technology company and the only producer of unbiased, streaming market-derived prices for the fixed income and derivatives markets, will use GuardTime Keyless Signatures to protect its intellectual property (IP), and confidential documents. The GuardTime technology is a software-generated tag for electronic data that provides proof of time, origin, and that not a single bit of the data has changed since the point in timeit was signed. The tag, referred to as a Keyless Signature, never expires and verification relies only on mathematics with no dependence on keys, secrets, tokens, certificates, or any third parties.

Why is this important? Because this process ensures an ironclad, independently-verifiable proof oftime when aninvention was made, along with proof-of-invention ownership thatadheres toU.S. “first-to-invent” requirements. The process also ensures that the data associated with the IP is legally-admissible as evidence in the event of an attack aimed at violating patent rights.

Benchmark’s BMarkSM Real-Time solution provides continuous market-derived real-time pricing data for fixed-income and derivatives products—starting with corporate bonds and credit default swaps, with ongoing expansion slated across other OTC asset classes.

Says Peter Cotton, Benchmark’s Chief Scientist, “We saw the value in cryptographically timestamping intellectual property, notwithstanding possible changes to patent law. The GuardTime solution ( http://www.guardtime.com ) was an easy win and, given the simplicity of the product, we envisage other uses for the technology going forward.”

Using patent-pending Market Calibrated FrameworkSM technology, the BMark Real-Time solution provides unbiased, streaming prices for over 2000 CDS curves across six distinct tenors, and 90% of the corporate bond volume monitored on TRACE. Over 12 million market inputs are analyzed to generate 118 million market-derived prices each trading day with updates every 10 seconds, providing up-to-the-minute assessments of market conditions, credit risk and the complex dynamics of the credit landscape.

To maintain a competitive position, it’s critical for organizations to protect its IP. Using GuardTime Keyless Signatures to sign its IP data, Benchmark Solutions will effectively protectits in-progress inventions, pending patents, and granted patents.

About Benchmark Solutions:
Benchmark Solutions was founded in the wake of the credit crisis in September 2009 to address fundamental shortcomings in price transparency and independence in the fixed-income and derivatives markets – a market that currently trades in the dark with little or no real-time pricing data for a majority of its assets. Backed by Warburg Pincus and led by CEO, Jim Toffey (Founder and CEO of Tradeweb), Benchmark has spent two years and significant financial investment in technology and human capital to solve this problem.

Benchmark’s flagship solution creates the industry’s first and only fully independent, streaming, market-driven pricing for US corporate bonds and CDS with ongoing expansion across other OTC asset classes.

Based on a patent-pending market-calibrated technology, the firm provides comprehensive pricing transparency and analytic solutions offering pre-trade intelligence to empower investment decisions and enhance their clients’ daily workflows, helping them understand the true market value of assets, discover previously unseen buy/sell opportunities, and proactively manage risk in real-time.

Benchmark employs over 70 professionals in finance and technology and is headquartered in New York.

For more information, please visit http://www.benchmarksolutions.com

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.

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GuardTime PR Contact:
Victor Cruz, MediaPR
vcruz@mediapr.net

Benchmark PR Contact:
Ceci Thomas
ceci.thomas@benchmarksolutions.com

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MediaPR.net Inc
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All coupons and agreements are recorded and maintained with lifelong non-repudiation.

Mountain View, CA / Reykjavík, Iceland, Tuesday – December 20, 2011 — Aha ( http://www.aha.is ), one of the largest eCommerce companies in Iceland with its main focus on daily deals, selling Internet coupons for everything from spa treatments to Go-Kart racing, has teamed up with data integrity service provider GuardTime in order to bring Aha merchants peace of mind. With the GuardTime Keyless Signature Service, Aha will be able to solidify its business agreements, conduct tamper-evident coupon transaction auditing for all its daily deals, and wipe out the question of trust that can linger around the authenticity of the data.

Selling “deal of the day” e-coupons to consumers is hugely popular, as evidenced by Groupon Inc.’s recent $700 million initial public offering, the largest IPO by a U.S. Internet company since Google’s 2004 IPO. There are plenty of other daily deals sites to reference as well, including U.S. and UK-based Living Social, which last week managed a national offer for McDonald’s, the fast food chain’s largest daily deal ever.

Yet with so much money at stake, fraud attempts are bound to follow. Aside from risks of coupon tampering, daily deals service providers typically have full control over their transaction-processing and data storage systems which can also raise doubt in merchants’ minds concerning the handling of the data. Without a verifiable auditing system in place, how is a service provider to prove authenticity on its end in the event that a dispute arises?

For example, this week Groupon was accused of altering previously-sent emails which capture the details of its agreements with its merchants. Filing a class action lawsuit, BidMyCrib.com sued Groupon in a Chicago federal court for allegedly violating the Stored Communications Act by altering sent emails “in electronic storage.”While GuardTime has no insight into either party’s position on the matter, this is a case that would be easy to prove either way – and could have even been avoided – if Keyless Signatures had been applied.

Aha’s daily deals service uses digital and printed coupons, allowing merchants to log any usage through QR codes and a secure merchant fulfillment web portal. The terms of service are also negotiated and agreed upon prior to merchant deals being offered to consumers. With the number of merchants, consumers, and transactions residing within the Aha service platform, it is critical to have proof of who is involved, what each party has agreed to, and what activities have taken place. All aspects of each agreement and every step of each transaction require a verifiable audit trail. This is where GuardTime Keyless Signatures ( http://www.guardtime.com ) come into play.

“The amount of activity on any one daily deals website creates a lot of traffic and a lot of noise that opens the opportunity for a tremendous amount of fraud, and even accidental mishandling of coupons by the merchants themselves,” says Mike Gault, GuardTime CEO. “By digitally signing all transactions through a third party, Aha can strengthen its relationships with its merchants, converting trust-based hand shakes into proof-based binding digital agreements.”

“As a company with a strong focus on eCommerce, we see tremendous value in using Keyless Signatures,” says Maron Kristófersson, CEO of Aha.”We currently sign 3-4 agreements with customers each day; with Keyless Signatures we envision a future in which all these agreements are finalized online, saving us paper, simplifying accounting, and saving a tremendous amount of time in our sales processes.”

In addition to increasing efficiency and turning the data that passes though Aha’s system into signed, tamper-evident data, the GuardTime Keyless Signature Service ( http://www.guardtime.com ) isal so the only solution to provide Aha with the ability to independently verify the signatures without reliance on GuardTime or any other third party.

“With GuardTime we have bank-grade, tamper-evident security and can produce a verifiable digital audit trail for every action, “added Kristófersson. “Merchants that use our system have practically eliminated the risk of processing false coupons as the success rate for coupon tampering is as likely as winning the lottery.”

In summary, by using the GuardTime Keyless Signature Service, Aha receives the following benefits:
* All business arrangements and associated agreements are recorded and maintained with lifelong non-repudiation.
* Merchants can prove electronic coupon authenticity prior to accepting and processing.
* All parties have proof of the status of electronic coupons.
* Trust is now backed by mathematics.

About Aha:
Aha.is, one of the largest eCommerce companies in Iceland, provides a daily deals service which enables multiple merchants to list online offers for goods and services that consumers can purchase at tough-to-beat prices. Aha’s e-coupon system makes it easy for merchants to increase sales and reach wider consumer audiences while also providing a hub for consumers to find terrific deals on just about anything.

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.

All company names are trademarks of their respective owners.

GuardTime PR Contact:
Victor Cruz, MediaPR
vcruz@mediapr.net

Aha Contact:
Maron Kristófersson, CEO
maron@aha.is
+354 664 7311

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz, Principal
MediaPR.net Inc
Mountain View, CA – USA
+1 978-594-4134
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

GuardTime today appointed Tim Fitzpatrick as its new Chief Financial Officer. Fitzpatrick replaces the previous CFO Bart Matusow, who has been appointed as GuardTime’s new Chief Operating Officer.

Singapore / Los Angeles, CA (USA), Friday – October 07, 2011 — 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 appointed Tim Fitzpatrick as its new Chief Financial Officer. Fitzpatrick replaces the previous CFO Bart Matusow, who has been appointed as GuardTime’s new Chief Operating Officer.

Before joining GuardTime, Fitzpatrick served as General Counsel for five years to a $3 billion NYSE-listed medical devices company. Prior to that, he practiced law in the corporate finance practice of international law firms in the United States and Hong Kong. Fitzpatrick received his MBA from the Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program in Hong Kong, in addition to a JD degree from the University of California/Los Angeles School of Law, and an MA degree in Political Science from University of California/San Diego, and a BA in Political Science from Hamilton College.

“We’re excited to have Tim Fitzpatrick join our executive team,” said CEO Mike Gault. “Given his impressive credentials we’re confident that Tim will help drive our growth plans in not just the legal and financial services industry but other key verticals.”

As GuardTime’s new COO, Bart Matusow has 20 years of financial industry experience covering money markets, commercial paper, foreign exchange, corporate bonds and derivatives. Prior to serving for nearly three years as CFO for GuardTime, he was a Director at Credit Suisse and before that, a Trader at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and English from Rutgers University.

“Bart Matusow performed a great service for us in the CFO role,” added Gault.”I’m excited to have him step up in a broader role as COO to manage the company’s growth into the future.”

Most recently, GuardTime was selected co-winner of the Innotribe $100K Start-Up Challenge, honoring the company as one of the world’s most promising financial technology start-ups.

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 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 where 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.

All company names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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

GuardTime, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a top 10 finalist in the Innotribe $100K Start-Up Challenge, honoring the company as one of the most promising financial technology and financial services start-ups.

Singapore, Thursday – September 08, 2011 — GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), creator of the Keyless Signature technology providingin disputable proof of time, origin, and dataintegrity for electronic information, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a top 10 finalist in the Innotribe $100K Start-Up Challenge, honoring the company as one of the most promising financial technology and financial services start-ups.

GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures allow for the creation of provable audit trails for all electronic data, making it ideal for financial services applications such as Internet banking, mobile payments, business-to-business and business-to-consumer communications, digital log forensics, and eDiscovery.

Early investors in GuardTime include Ambient Sound Investments,Horizons Ventures, and the Infocomm Development Agency (IDA) of Singapore.

The Innotribe Challenge was open to over 80 innovative technology start-ups and technology-enabled financial service companies from more than 15 countriesworking in areas such as payments, securities, trading, social media tools, big data/data analytics, security, identity, b2b or b2b2c mobile, and small business apps & services and/or IT infrastructure.

On September 21, 2011 at Sibos in Toronto, GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) and nine other finalists, selected by expert judges and community votes will present to an invitation-only audience of dozens of decision-makers from the world’s largest financial institutions, serial entrepreneurs, investors, and media. On September 22, two of these finalists will each be presented with a check for $50,000 in front of Sibos’ audience of 8,000 financial industry professionals.

GuardTime looks forward to the opportunity to accept two invitations to the post-competition networking dinner with investors and executives from institutions such as CITI,Credit Agricole, Deutsche, DNBNor, HSBC, JP Morgan, OCBC, and Standard Chartered.

More information can be found at: http://innotribestartup.myreviewroom.com/pages/details

About GuardTime
GuardTime captured the top spot in the public vote for the Innotribe Start-Up Challenge (http://bit.ly/oOLkxc).Also a Red Herring Global 100 Winner and Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award Winner, GuardTime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: trust. GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of data integrity, signing authority, and 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 where 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.

GuardTime PR Contact:
Victor Cruz, MediaPR
vcruz@mediapr.net
+1 978.594.4134

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

GuardTime today officially announced its Data Audit Server, a product developed using Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI), a set of technologies used to prove the properties of electronic data.

Los Angeles, CA / Singapore, Thursday – August 11, 2011 — GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) today officially announced its Data Audit Server, a product developed using Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI), a set of technologies used to prove the properties of electronic data. The Data Audit Server is designed to enable organizations to safeguard their most valuable or confidential data, intellectual property, applications, virtual machines, code, and logs,while residing inside the Enterprise and withinCloud infrastructures.

The complete GuardTime Keyless Signature system allows for any data item in transit, stored on disk or in the cloud, or electronically shared or running in the cloud, to be mathematically identified by the GuardTime Data Audit Server where in turn it will receive its electronicdata signatureusing the company’s patented Keyless Signature technology.

The Keyless Signature proves three things: 1) the exact time that the data was signed; 2) that the data has not been changed or tampered with since the time it was signed; and 3) who or what entity originally signed the data.

GuardTime’s Data Audit Server ( http://www.guardtime.com ) delivers Keyless Signatures for each file signed, where the signatures can be verified online as part of nearly any data workflow or business process, enabling organizations to make informed decisions with a mathematically-provable audit trail for all of their electronic data. This makes fraud harder to conduct and insider attacks nearly impossible to hide while strengthening the legal admissibility of all signed digital records.

Says CEO Mike Gault, “Whether you need proof of origin and time to protect your intellectual property, proof that your event logs remain intact for an upcoming eDiscovery audit, or a mechanism which provides indisputable assurance that attacks on your data and systems have not taken place, you’ll find the GuardTime Data Audit Server will meet your needs.”

GuardTime’s Keyless Signature ( http://www.guardtime.com ) mathematically proves data integrity requiring only the use of the original data, the Keyless Signature for the data signed, and the integrity code published in the World Edition of the Financial Timesnewspaper. With these three things, a client can independently prove the integrity of any data signed by GuardTime without having to trust any third party – not even GuardTime.

“We adopted GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures for the management of digital data in extensive business applications as it is considered to be an ideal service at a very reasonable cost and extremely easy to use. The beauty of the Keyless Signature is it can assure data integrity for the life of the data. This is quite different from existing key-based services which expireand only remain valid for a limited number of years,” said KunihiroYasui, the general manager of NID development group of Brother Industries, LTD.

An organization’s most valuable digital assets are finally assured with provable integrity as the solution delivers completely auditable and forensic quality logs and proof of data integrity for stored or archived data.

Available immediately, pricing for the GuardTime Data Audit Server starts at $1,000 USD per month with a starting capacity of 1 Keyless Signature per second.

About GuardTime:
A Red Herring Global 100 Winner and Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award Winner, GuardTime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: trust. GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of data integrity, signing authority, and time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without the 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.

Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing data.

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

Extending e-signatures to strengthen the validity of audit trail data and log files contributes to thwarting insider threat and cybercrimes.

Singapore | Chicago, IL, Tuesday – August 09, 2011 — GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), creator of the patented Keyless Signature technologyprovidingindisputable proof of time, origin, and dataintegrity for electronic information, today announced that its Keyless Signatures will be adopted by Authentify, the leader in telephone-based, multi-factor authentication services. Authentify will use GuardTime’s Keyless Signaturesto electronically sign the data logs thereby developing a provable audit trail derived from their customer’s authentication transactions.

Using GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures to sign all of the archived log files generated by Authentify’s authentication process provides Authentify customers with undeniable proof of authenticity and integrity of the process and its data. Having audit-ready, independently-verifiable log files solves a variety of compliance issues and a host of potentially business-damaging disputes.

To-date, affixing digital signatures to log files had not been a widely-adopted practice, but GuardTime’s Keyless Signature technology ( http://www.guardtime.com ) proves three things that make it attractive:1) the exact time that the data was signed; 2) proof that the data has not been changed or tampered with since the time it was signed; and 3) who or what entity originally signed the data.

“Now a businesscan provide a mathematically-provable audit trail for all of its electronic files, documents or data,” said Mike Gault, GuardTime CEO. “Fraud by manipulating data or a person’s signature becomes harder to conduct and insider attacks become nearly impossible to hide. An organization’s most valuable digital assets are assured with provable integrity and compliance with Sarbannes Oxley and other regulations becomes automatic.”

The announcement follows a string of similar partner integration deals that include such companies as Japan’s Brother Industries, web-hosting provider Joyent, whose customers include Twitter and LinkedIn, and cloud-based data collaboration and storage service Ftopia.

About Authentify:
Authentify, Inc. is the leading provider of global telephone-based, out-of-band authentication services. These multi-factor authentication (MFA) services enable organizations that need strong security to quickly and cost-effectively add 2-factor (2FA) or 3-factor authentication layers to user logon, transaction verifications or critical changes such as adding a payee to an e-pay or wire account. The company’s patented technology employs a service oriented message architecture and XML API to seamlessly integrate into existing security processes.
Many of the most familiar names on the Internet, including five of the world’s top 10 banks, the Internet’s largest e-commerce site, the largest online auction and commerce site, the leading p2P e-payment firm and many others use Authentify. For more information, visit Authentify at: http://www.authentify.com

About GuardTime:
A Red Herring Global 100 Winner and Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award Winner, GuardTime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: trust. GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of data integrity, signing authority, and time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without the 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.Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing your data.

GuardTime PR Contact
Victor Cruz, MediaPR
+1 978.594.4134
vcruz@mediapr.net

Authentify PR Contact:
John Zurawski, Vice President
+1 773.243.0328
john.zurawski@authentify.com

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

GuardTime, today announced the appointment of David Piesse, Asia Pacific Ambassador of the International Insurance Society, to its advisory board.

Singapore, March 23, 2011 — GuardTime ( http://www.guardtime.com ), creator of the patented Keyless Signatures™ technology used to validate the world’s data for applications such as secure cloud archiving, today announced the appointment of David Piesse, Asia Pacific Ambassador of the International Insurance Society, to its advisory board.

“Insurance is a key sector for us and we are delighted to have someone as experienced as David Piesse to advise us on this sector,” said Mike Gault, GuardTime CEO. “As the insurance industry moves to online trading the amount of electronic data will increase exponentially and GuardTime’s keyless signatures represent a cost-effective and scalable mechanism to prove the integrity and authenticity of that data.”

“Global regulation of the financial industry has changed dramatically around capital adequacy and minimum solvency requirements which affect the ratings of insurance and reinsurance companies,” said Piesse. “Part of this regulation centres around operational risk and the retention of stored policy and claims documents. GuardTime provides an innovative, unique solution to this part of the regulation and companies who incorporate the Keyless Signature approach to their business will have a competitive advantage and benefit from increased transparency. I am very pleased to be part of such an innovation which will prove to provide tremendous value to its members.”

David Piesse is the Asia Pacific ambassador for the International Insurance Society and has a 30 year global career combining risk management, information technology and financial services. As a specialist in micro-insurance he co-founded the Asia Insurance Review micro-insurance conference and has led many initiatives to establish insurance distribution channels to rural areas, notably in China and India.

He was previously the Global Head of Financial Services for SUN Microsystems where he helped establish SUN’s cloud computing initiatives in the insurance sector. Before that, he was with the United Nations on a team that led the mission for disaster risk management under three UN Secretary Generals.

GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures provide proof of signing authority, time of the signature, and integrity of all data located in the cloud, on disk, and in transit. The signature never expires and its verification is based solely on mathematics, eliminating the need for any secrets or keys.GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures enable data including insurance records, highly confidential documents, and reports for regulatory compliance audits to be securely stored online, in the cloud or in data archives, each with complete and undeniable proof of integrity.

About GuardTime:
A Red Herring Global 100 Winner and Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award Winner, GuardTime was founded in 2006 by cryptography experts Dr. Märt Saarepera and Dr. Ahto Buldas along with Internet visionary Joi Ito. GuardTime provides a completely-available service and infinitely-scalable Keyless Signatures™ engine designed to deliver authenticity and integrity for the data that the world relies upon: as it sits on disk, moves across the network, and is used in the cloud. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing data.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz
MediaPR.net Inc
Singapore
+1 401.349.3369
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

Former AvePoint Executive and BT Data Management/Telecommunications Specialist to Manage Operations and Customers/Partners in China.

Singapore / Beijing, China, February 25, 2011 — GuardTime, creator of the patented Keyless Signature™ technology used to validate the world’s data, today announced its appointment of Jian Tan to operate from the company’s office in Beijing. As the General Manager of GuardTime China, Jian will be responsible for Product Development as well as managing Business Development in China.

Jian brings to GuardTime over 15 years of diverse experience in Intellectual Property Management, Telecommunications and Data Management in both China and USA. Previously he helped found AvePoint and served as the Vice President of Development at the fast growing data management solution provider. Prior to joining GuardTime, ( http://www.guardtime.com ) Jian provided business and technology consulting at British Telecom and operated in both US and China for 4 years.

“The knowledge, experience, and respect that Jian has gained throughout his career make him well-suited to establish strategic relationships in China,” said Mike Gault, CEO of GuardTime. “China is an extremely important market for us and we look forward to seeing him in action in leading GuardTime product development activities within China as both customers and partners alike begin to benefit from the use of our unique Keyless Signature offerings to sign their data.”

GuardTime’s Keyless Signatures ( http://www.guardtime.com ) provide proof of signing authority, time of the signature, and integrity of all data located in the cloud, on disk, and in transit. The signature never expires and its verification is based solely on mathematics, eliminating the need for any secrets or keys.

A native of China, Jian has an EMBA from Kellogg-HKUST in Hong Kong, a PhD in Chemistry from New York University and a bachelor degrees in both Chemistry and Intellectual Property from Peking University in Beijing.

About GuardTime:
A Red Herring Global 100 Winner and Frost & Sullivan Product Innovation Award Winner, GuardTime was founded in 2006 by cryptography experts Dr. MärtSaarepera and Dr. Ahto Buldas along with Internet visionary Joi Ito. GuardTime provides a completely-available service and infinitely-scalable Keyless Signatures™ engine designed to deliver authenticity and integrity for the data that the world relies upon: as it sits on disk, moves across the network, and is used in the cloud. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing data.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz
MediaPR.net Inc
Singapore
+1 401.349.3369
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com

GuardTime, today announced it has received the 2010 Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award for Data Integrity Solutions.

Singapore, February 17, 2011 — GuardTime, creator of the patented Keyless Signature™ technology used to validate the world’s data for applications such as secure cloud storage, today announced it has received the 2010 Asia Pacific Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award for Data Integrity Solutions.

“By eliminating the need to utilize secret keys or proprietary algorithms which is widely practiced in competing solutions, GuardTime’s solution ensures data integrity persistently remains intact. Another noteworthy feature of the solution is that it highly leverages of the prowess of Cloud Computing and thus is made available on a global scale. With its strong emphasis on authenticity and availability, GuardTime’s solution could act as an impetus to further impel the steady growth of Cloud Computing in the Asia Pacific region,” explains Ahmad Zeffirelli Ibrahim, Research Analyst with Frost & Sullivan’s Technical Insights Practice. “As we approached the end of 2010, we witnessed the numbers of objects being stored in the cloud double from 2009. It is going to be an exciting year to further witness the healthy growth of Cloud Computing as we move through 2011,” added Zeffirelli.

“Cloud computing is a subject top-of-mind for most organizations and institutions around the world,” said Mike Gault, GuardTime CEO. “Our Keyless Signature technology continues to garner quite a bit of attention from industry analysts, technology and service providers, and security-minded businesses as we have been able to answer the most critical question they have faced to date: how can an organization prove that their data has not been compromised in the cloud.”

GuardTime’s Keyless Signature technology provides proof of signing authority, time of the signature, and lifelong integrity for data stored on disk, residing in the cloud, or in transit across networks. The signature never expires and its verification is based solely on mathematics, eliminating the need for secrets or keys and the unwieldy management associated with traditional PKI technologies.

The Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation of the Year is presented each year to the company that has demonstrated measured excellence in new, innovative product or product line within its industry. The recipient company has shown innovation by launching a broad line of emerging products. The recipient of this Award has excelled based on one or more of the following criteria:

* Innovative Element of the Product
* Leverage Leading Edge Technologies in Product
* Value Added Features/Benefits
* Increased Customer ROI
* Customer Acquisition/Penetration Potential

Just last month, GuardTime received the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Global award, being honored as one of the year’s most promising private technology ventures from around the world.

About GuardTime:
A Red Herring Global 100 Winner, GuardTime was founded in 2006 by cryptography experts Dr. Märt Saarepera and Dr. Ahto Buldas along with Internet visionary Joi Ito. GuardTime provides a completely-available service and infinitely-scalable Keyless Signatures™ engine designed to deliver authenticity and integrity for the data that the world relies upon: as it sits on disk, moves across the network, and is used in the cloud. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for cloud computing.

About Frost & Sullivan:
Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, enables clients to accelerate growth and achieve best-in-class positions in growth, innovation and leadership. The company’s Growth Partnership Service provides the CEO and the CEO’s Growth Team with disciplined research and best-practice models to drive the generation, evaluation, and implementation of powerful growth strategies. Frost & Sullivan leverages 50 years of experience in partnering with Global 1000 companies, emerging businesses and the investment community from more than 40 offices on six continents. To join the Growth Partnership, please visit http://www.frost.com.

Press & Media Contact:
Victor Cruz
MediaPR.net Inc
Singapore
+1 401.349.3369
vcruz@mediapr.net
http://www.guardtime.com