Brad McArthur

Headquartered in Atlanta, Purewire secures business and social interactions on the Web. Founded by veteran security industry entrepreneurs, its SaaS-based secure Web gateway is designed to increase ROI and lower the total cost of security for businesses. The introduction of Web 2.0 brought with it a completely new paradigm in how it interacts with the Web, and more importantly, how it interacts with it. As dynamic rich media and user-generated content enhance the user experience, the Web is a fertile breeding ground for malicious threats facing enterprise networks. While advances such as social networking sites like Facebook, Web applications like Twitter and Flickr, and commerce sites like Craigslist and eBay are growing in popularity, the threats to end users also are rising. This presents a new set of challenges to protect users from where they are going, what they are downloading and from anyone malicious or fraudulent with whom they are interacting. Purewire brings safety and trust back to these platforms and protects users from malware, phishing, identity theft, and other harmful activity online in effect, providing a pure wire to the Internet. Purewire is the only vendor that addresses the complete Web security threat landscape, providing unique algorithms and scalable services to protect users from malicious people, places and things on the Web. The firm has built a massively scalable, multi-tenant service infrastructure to ensure end users notice no delay when accessing the Web, while at the same time providing the highest level of security in the industry.

CipherTrust, Inc. provides security software services. The company develops security software to stop inbound messaging threats such as spam, viruses, intrusions, phishing as well as protect against outbound policy and compliance violations. The company was founded in 2000 by Jay Chaudhry and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.