CipherPoint Selected as SINET 16 Innovator to Present at 2012 SINET Showcase

Industry and Federal Government Leaders Collaborate to Defeat Cybersecurity Threats

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CipherPoint™, a leading provider of transparent content security for SharePoint, cloud collaboration, and other web-based applications, today announced that it has been selected as a SINET 16 Innovator. CipherPoint will present its transparent encryption technology during the 2012 SINET Showcase to be held October 25th at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate. The Security Innovation Network (SINET) initiatives are designed to advance innovation and enable collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat global cybersecurity threats.

“CipherPoint is honored to have been recognized as one of the 16 most promising security innovators by SINET”

Eighty emerging technology companies applied and were carefully vetted in a two-stage process by the SINET Showcase Steering Committee for the opportunity to present innovative and potentially disruptive cybersecurity solutions to an audience of representatives from defense, homeland security, intelligence and civilian federal agencies as well commercial, investment and research communities. CipherPoint will be one of sixteen companies presenting on stage.

“Every year the quality of companies applying to present as a SINET 16 Innovator continues to impress the Showcase steering committee. Since 2010 we have received hundreds of applications in our efforts to advance innovation, lead change and build trusted global collaboration models between the public and private sectors to defeat cybersecurity threats. We are confident that by raising the awareness of CipherPoint’s and other finalists’ capabilities, there will be an enhanced opportunity to impact the most pressing technology needs of the Federal Government and private industry – and, ultimately, the protection of our nation’s Critical Infrastructure and Command and Control systems. In this light, I am excited to announce the class of 2012 SINET 16 Innovators,” said Robert Rodriguez, Chairman and Managing Principal of SINET.

“CipherPoint is honored to have been recognized as one of the 16 most promising security innovators by SINET,” said Mike Fleck, CEO, CipherPoint. “This award highlights the importance of securing sensitive enterprise content in collaboration environments like SharePoint. With increased pressure within the Federal Government and private sectors to collaborate and share information, it’s more important than ever to secure enterprise content. CipherPoint is pleased to be able to present our solution to help organizations easily find, secure, and monitor their unstructured data in SharePoint and other platforms.”

For more information on CipherPoint's transparent encryption solutions for SharePoint, please visit:

http://www.cipherpoint.com

About CipherPoint Software, Inc.

CipherPoint secures sensitive and regulated content in web-based application environments including premise-based collaboration platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint, cloud, and other web-based applications. CipherPoint's transparent data encryption technology secures content and data from the web tier, affording the highest level of threat protection to sensitive and regulated content. CipherPoint’s products are easy to deploy and manage, secure, and scalable to meet the needs of large enterprises.

Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, CipherPoint was founded by IT security experts with deep experience in building successful security technology companies. Customers in healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, government, and other industries, in Europe, North America, and Asia rely on CipherPoint to protect access to sensitive or regulated information in their SharePoint sites.

Copyright CipherPoint Software, Inc., 2012 All rights reserved.
CipherPoint® is a registered trademark of CipherPoint Software, Inc. CipherPoint Software, Inc., CipherPointSP, CipherPointSP Enterprise, CipherPoint KM, and the stylized CipherPoint logo are trademarks of CipherPoint Software, Inc. SharePoint is a trademark of Microsoft.