By Allan MAURER
ATLANTA, GA – Whether email or large files such as legal documents, blueprints or graphics, sending it securely online can be a challenge that leads many firms to use courier services instead. Atlanta’s Stonebranch says it has solved that problem with the launch of its new product, Scribbos.
Launched today, the Scibbos product is Stonebranch’s secure business communications solution. It is an information transfer tool for instantly sending all types and sizes of information securely.
The company says it is the only solution on the market that can be deployed as SaaS, on-premise or as a mobile application.
Scribbos is as easy to use as email, but unlike traditional email (or FTP), it provides the industry’s most advanced technology for protecting information against the risk of security breaches and offers advanced tracking as well.
Why is this important? Stonebranch notes that data breaches and information tampering have increased 180 percent in four years.
This can be devastating to a business handling health records, financial data, payroll information, or other confidential documents from email to legal agreements.
“When your information is vulnerable, your business is vulnerable,” Bothe says.
Founded in 1999 by Wolfgang Bothe, Gert Adolphsen and Nathan Hammond, the company initially developed managed file transfer and job scheduling software that is easy to use, works with legacy systems and would scale with customer businesses.
It’s Infitran and Indesca products streamline IT processes to reduce costs.
Bothe tells TechJournal South the company was initially funded privately through friends and family and later raised $1.5 million from investors including Cordova Ventures.
The 179 employee company hired 28 people just this year and has been profitable since 2005, says Bothe. It has achieved 30 percent year-over-year growth since its inception.
It currently has open positions it hopes to fill by the end of the year.
The company also has offices in Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain and Denmark.
Bothe says the company developed Scibbos at the request of customers who needed something easy to use and maintain that would work with existing business processes.
The service is extremely flexible and a person can use it to send private information to a bank or lawyer via Outlook, while large customers can use their current infrastructure and “touch all platforms” says Bothe.
“It gives them an audit trail and visibility,” he adds. “They have the ability to transfer large files with an audit trail back to their legacy systems, using all the compliance and security already in place,” says Bothe. “That’s what they were looking for.”
It closes pockets of insecure IT processes that spring up when secure methods of file transfer are hard to use.
One German service provider for banks has more than 5,000 servers and works with 5,000 bank branches. It plans to use the service to communicate with its partners and branches, says Bothe.
About 85 percent of the company’s 243 current customers are in the financial services sector but it’s seeing business in the government agency sector picking up, Bothe notes.
It sees a market for the new product among law firms, insurance agents, architects and designers, all of whom must frequently deal with the need to send large files securely and often use courier services now.
“We plug all the holes for them so they don’t have to worry about it,” Bothe says. “For the first time they’re able to send and receive files securely with an iPhone or whatever they want to use.”
A single individual user can buy the service for $14.95 a month on an SaaS basis.
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