SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/09/13 — , a stealth startup tackling enterprise mobile security, today announced Gartner has named it a “cool vendor” in the report, “Cool Vendors in Security: Security Services, 2013.”(1) (2)
“We-re finally reaching the point where IT officially recognizes what has always been going on: People use their business device for nonwork purposes,” said David Willis, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. “They often use a personal device in business. Once you realize that, you-ll understand you need to protect data in another way besides locking down the full device.”(3)
In the same report Willis elaborates: “Unsurprisingly, security is the top concern for BYOD. The risk of data leakage on mobile platforms is particularly acute. Some mobile devices are designed to share data in the cloud and have no general purpose file system for applications to share, increasing the potential for data to be easily duplicated between applications and moved between applications and the cloud(3). Despite security concerns, BYOD adoption continues to accelerate. Organizations have stopped looking at how to prevent BYOD, and begun looking at how to enable users — this is where Bluebox comes in.
“Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn-t do before,” said Bluebox CEO and co-founder Caleb Sima. “We are honored to receive this recognition — a testament to the innovation that sets Bluebox apart from solutions currently on the market.”
Bluebox is now accepting broader enrollment into its beta program, to learn more visit .
Bluebox Security is a stealth startup focused on enterprise mobile security. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sun Microsystems co-founder, Andreas von Bechtolsheim, SV Angel and Google Board member Ram Shriram, Bluebox Security is headquartered in San Francisco. For more information visit , follow us , or read our .
(1) Gartner “Cool Vendor in Security Services, 2013” Joseph Feiman 4/29/13
(2) Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner-s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
(3) Gartner Press Release, “Gartner Predicts by 2017, Half of Employers will Require Employees to Supply Their Own Device for Work Purposes,” 5/1/13.
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