RingCentral has acquired cloud encryption start up Kindite for an undisclosed sum.
Tel Aviv-based Kindite was founded in 2018 and specialises in cryptographic technologies that mitigate and reduce security and privacy risks to applications in the cloud. Its security capabilities will be integrated into RingCentral’s platform.
RingCentral’s Chief Information Security Officer, Heather Hinton, stated: “Security and reliability are paramount in enabling employees to work from anywhere.
“With this team’s leading-edge security technology, we will accelerate our ability to deliver end-to-end encryption and continue to enhance our commitment to deliver the highest level of security capabilities for our global communications platform, benefiting customers everywhere.”
Kindite’s platform ncludes a unique set of cryptographic key orchestration technologies which deliver enhanced, security, privacy and compliance, enabling cloud applications to process encrypted data without decryption.
Kindite CEO and co-founder, Maor Cohen, added: “We established Kindite to bring the very latest technological capabilities to address security and privacy in the cloud.
“It’s fantastic we can bring these security capabilities to customers around the world while enhancing the RingCentral platform with the next generation of security technologies.”
