Saturday, August 6, 2011

Twitter takes additional measures to protect sensitive documents

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Twitter cooperates with a German company called Brainloop in an effort to more effectively safeguard and enhance its ability to share and collaborate on confidential documents.

Brainloop offers online platform that helps companies such as Twitter, but also clients as BMW and Nokia protect sensitive documents and automatically apply security policies required for the files that they want to protect from strangers.

Needless to say, that we are not too happy with the recent development.:)

News of the partnership between Twitter and Brainloop comes less than two weeks after it appeared on the former, raising 800 million dollars in financing for investors and employees cash out until the final sale or IPO.

Twitter declined to comment on the reports.

In the statement of the Twitter VP Finance Luca Baratta said the company was "delighted" to work with Brainloop and that companies are protected online workspace solution will help Twitter as it expands its global footprint. Brainloop CEO Peter Weger explains what his company does, in a nutshell:

"We make it easy for employees, partners, investors and other interested parties, whether they are inside or outside the network to carry out their work, knowing that they comply with the rules of confidentiality that their intellectual property is protected and the best thing that they do not have to worry about that."

In short: Brainloop helps prevent sensitive information from leaking for people like us, Twitter.

Some of the features available in the company's compliance management solution include ' nowhere ', Web access, paper, jointly-controlled user access control, two-factor authentication via SMS contacts, 256-bit encryption, and integration with Microsoft and Adobe's rights management to prevent unauthorized forwarding, printing, and saving documents at any time.

Further details of the deal between Brainloop and Twitter were not leaked.

Brainloop is located in Munich, Germany, and has an Office in Boston, Massachusetts (United States). The company raised 2 million euro funding to date.


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