Porticor Named as Finalist in 4th Annual 2012 Golden Bridge Awards for Encryption Key Management Innovations

Online, August 24, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Porticor®, a leading cloud data security company delivering the only cloud-based data encryption solution that infuses trust into the cloud and keeps cloud data confidential, today announced that it has been recognized as a finalist in the Annual 2012 Golden Bridge Awards for its Porticor Virtual Private Data™ (Porticor VPD™) system.

The annual Golden Bridge Awards program, with active participation from a broad spectrum of industry voices, encompasses the world's best in organizational performance, products and services, innovations, executives and management teams, women in business and the professions, case studies and successful deployments, public relations and marketing campaigns, product management, websites, blogs, white-papers, videos, advertisements, creativity, partner programs, and customer satisfaction programs from every major industry in the world. Organizations from all over the world are eligible to submit nominations. Winners will be honored in San Francisco on Oct. 2 during the 4th annual awards dinner and presentations.

Porticor enables companies of all sizes to safeguard their data, comply with regulatory standards, and streamline operations, while eliminating the need to trust security vendors or virtualization/cloud providers with the most important security element around data in the cloud - the encryption keys. Its Porticor VPD system is the industry's only solution combining data encryption with patented split-key management technology to protect critical data in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Unlike traditional data encryption solutions, which are complicated and expensive to deploy and manage, Porticor's split-key management system is offered as the industry's first cloud data protection service, delivering true confidentiality of data in the cloud by ensuring customer encryption keys are never exposed.

"The Golden Bridge Awards are an esteemed industry and peer recognition, and our finalist honor highlights for the industry the accomplishments Porticor has made around its innovative encryption key management inventions," said Gilad Parann-Nissany, Porticor founder and CEO. "Porticor's patented data encryption and split-key management is at the heart of its cloud data security service, and enables it to secure customers' cloud data in a unique way, without ever revealing their data encryption keys and putting themselves at risk."

About the Golden Bridge Awards
Globee Awards from Silicon Valley are conferred in four programs: The Info Security's Global Excellence Awards, The IT Industry's Hot Companies and Best Products Awards, The Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards, and Consumer Products Guide's World Choice Awards. These premier awards honor organizations of all types and sizes from all over the world, including people behind them, the products, performance, innovations, public relations and marketing. Learn more about The Golden Bridge Awards at www.goldenbridgeawards.com.

About Porticor
Porticor is the leading cloud security company delivering easy-to-use and scalable security solutions for cloud data encryption and key management. The Porticor Virtual Private Data™ (VPD) system is the industry's first solution combining data encryption with patented split-key management to protect critical data in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Within minutes, customers can encrypt their entire data layer with the proven AES 256-bit encryption algorithm. Using breakthrough split-key encryption technology, and built for homomorphic key encryption, the Porticor VPD is the only system available that offers the ease-of-use of cloud-based key management without sacrificing trust. Porticor is an official Amazon Web Services Solution provider, a VMware Technology Alliance Partner, and supports other clouds, and was the only cloud security semi-finalist in the AWS 2011 Startup Challenge. The company is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is venture backed by Glilot Capital. For more information, visit: http://www.porticor.com/.

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