Given everything that's recently occurred with the breach of data at Target stores and the revelations by Ed Snowden about the NSA, many Americans are re-thinking how they communicate and what they communicate. I can tell you having worked for the government and someone who's held some of the highest security clearances in the government, its scary what they can do and I've seen it first hand during the Global War on Terror. Think I'm exaggerating, check this out!
This week, Virtru launched very quietly and is the brain child of a former NSA architect Will Ackerly, it will allow you to encrypt your Gmail, Yahoo (YHOO) and Outlook emails. It has already received $4 million dollars in angel financing and is quickly attracting interest from Wall street.
The founder, Will Ackerly, helped invent encryption at the NSA which has become the standard for sharing sensitive data between U.S intelligence agencies. I'm very familiar with this platform, its name and have accessed it and used it regularly when I was contracted to do work for the government.
VERY HARD TO BREAK!
Virtru will allow users to encrypt emails from Google's (GOOG) Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft (MSFT) Outlook and Apple's (AAPL) Macmail. The service is powered by 256-bit AES encryption. Virtu said "it never has access to the email content and only manages access to the key required to read the content, and while there are a number of other email encryption platforms such as Hushmail, non have gained mass adoption.
Eventually, Virtru plans to expand its platform to help users protect other forms of communication, including texts and messages on Twitter (TWTR).
It's easy to see why Goldman Sachs (GS) and Barclays (BCS) have expressed a lot of interest in it. Check it out below and the article here
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS
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